[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by lestatar

I totally remember that Rio. Though I ended up with an early Creative Labs player [logic at the time was: CL does sound cards, so they must do good portable audio...which was true for a long, long time...]

You prolly already did, but did ya ever check these before ditching it? I know, a day late and a dollar short...
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/RioDrivers_win32/

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/RIOsitude/

http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...er-277088.html

Pretty sure the cables should be available on ebay as well, but would have needed much hunting.

And here, a Time magazine article naming the Rio as 1 of the top 100 tech gadgets of all time, from 2010.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...V5LfB3WKioYXXQ

I checked out that Time magazine article and ironically, found my old CD player on there also. I don't remember ever being able to get 10 songs on that Rio, I think 8 was my max, which was kind of a bummer. Here I had the newest coolest gadget and I couldn't get through working out on the StairMonster without repeating songs. I think the next mp3 player that I got was the Rio Nitrus, which was a while later. I remember I loved it but my biggest query was wondering why it had no belt clip and finding a work-around.