Rio 500

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The Rio 500 portable mp3 player.
The Rio 500 portable mp3 player.

The Rio 500 is considered the first of the Second Generation MP3 digital audio player (portable digital audio player), and was produced by Diamond Multimedia. It shipped in 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).

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The Rio 500 was the first MP3 player to allow file transfer via USB cable, and PC & Mac support. It features 64 MB of flash memory available for music, has a backlight, ability to set bookmarks, has an expansion card slot and is powered by one AA battery. It is roughly the size of a standard pack of playing cards.

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