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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 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 ]
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.
Samsung SPH-M2100, the first mobile phone with built-in MP3 player was produced in South Korea in August 1999. [57] [58] Samsung SPH-M100 (UpRoar) launched in 2000 was the first mobile phone to have MP3 music capabilities [59] in the US market. The innovation spread rapidly across the globe and by 2005, more than half of all music sold in South ...
The Rio Receiver was a home stereo device for playing MP3 files stored on your computer's hard drive over an Ethernet or HomePNA network. It was later rebranded and sold as the Dell Digital Audio Receiver. With a design derived from the existing Linux-based Empeg Car, it became popular among the Linux hacking community.
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 ...
Rio Carbon 5GB model. The Rio Carbon is a line of digital audio players that was produced by the now defunct Rio from 2004 to 2005. It was similar in size, capacity, and cost with Apple's iPod Mini which debuted earlier the same year. This was Rio's second player to use a miniature hard disk for storage, after the Rio Nitrus, which was first to ...
September 1997 – Windows Media Player 6.1 includes support for mp3 playback for the first time. November 1997 – MP3.com is founded by Michael Robertson and Greg Flores. [18] Initially an FTP search engine, MP3.com becomes a hosting service for unsigned artists. It serves 4 million audio file downloads per day at its peak and becomes the ...