Rio Riot Explained

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 2002. It was an early competitor to the Apple iPod.^[1]

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.

Supported Formats

• WMA
• MP3

References

2. Manual

Notes and References

1. Web site: iPod vs. Rio Riot: The winner is clear. March 2, 2002. July 6, 2011.