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Rio was a line of digital audio players and related audio products. Its first release, the Rio PMP300 digital music player (also known colloquially as simply the "Diamond Rio" ), released by Diamond Multimedia in 1998, was one of the earliest notable and commercially successful devices in its category. [ 1 ]
The Rio also spawned one of the first Digital Music service providers (ASP or SaaS Cloud Service), RioPort. RioPort was the first digital music service to license secure, single-track commercial downloads from major record labels. [2] The Rio PMP300 was supplied with a copy of the "Music Match" software for managing the user's MP3 library.
Rio Cali The RioForge is a digital audio player that was produced by Rio Audio, Inc. While it competed in the same market as Apple Inc 's iPod mini , it is considerably different as it plays from internal memory, SD card, or FM broadcast and runs on a single AAA battery.
The Rio 500 is considered [by whom?] the first of the Second Generation MP3 digital audio player (portable digital audio player), and was produced by Diamond Multimedia. It shipped September 22, 1999. The Rio 500 was the successor of the Rio PMP300, and provided a number of user requested features (including USB and higher audio quality). There ...
The Rio Riot was a hard disk-based "jukebox" MP3 digital audio player produced by Diamond Multimedia as part of the Rio line. It shipped in March 2002, and was an early competitor to the Apple iPod , coming out some four months after its release.
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Some MP3 players can encode directly to MP3 or other digital audio formats directly from a line-level audio signal (radio, voice, etc.). [citation needed] Devices such as CD players can be connected to the MP3 player (using the USB port) in order to directly play music from the memory of the player without the use of a computer. [citation needed]
[60] This market shift was initiated when the first portable digital audio player, the Rio digital music player, was introduced. The 64 MB Rio MP3 player enabled users to store about 20 songs. [61] One of the benefits of the Rio over portable CD players was that since the Rio had no moving parts, it offered skip-free playback. [61]