Rio Riot
Encyclopedia
The Rio Riot was an MP3
digital audio player (portable digital audio player), and was produced by Diamond Multimedia
. It shipped in 2002. It was an early competitor to the Apple iPod
.
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
digital audio player (portable digital audio player), and was produced by Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia is a company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards, motherboards, modems, sound cards and MP3 players, however the company began with the production of the TrackStar, a PC add-on card which emulated Apple II computers...
. It shipped in 2002. It was an early competitor to the Apple iPod
IPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
.
Features
The Rio Riot featured:- 20 gigabytes of storage.
- USB connectivity
- a large backlit monochrome graphic LCD display.
- FM tuner
- 10 hours per charge at 50% volume battery life
- ID3 and WMA tagging support
- iTunes support
- Note* Lacked ability to retrieve data off HD.