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- Massive -- With 20GB of storage you can put up to 4,000 tracks on your unit depending on bitrate used
- Easy to use -- Simple navigation with the wireless remote or the ergonomic buttons on the unit's faceplate
- Flexible -- Rio Car integrates with existing tape decks, AM/FM radios, CD players and amplifiers using additional in and out ports. Better yet, Rio Car slides out of a standard car stereo slot and can be attached to a home stereo system via standard RCA connectors. With this flexibility, music fans can take their music wherever they go
- Customizable -- Consumers can put together their favorite mixes on the PC and transfer them to the player using the included software or they can sort through the music by title, artist, genre, album and year on the player itself. Additionally, listeners can assign their favorite playlists and tracks a unique ID number to find them instantly using the player's remote. Ultimately, users can control the music instead of having the music control the way they listen
- Informative -- Music fans no longer need to remember the disc and track number for their favorite song. The high-resolution display removes the guesswork from choosing music by displaying album and track name, artist and song length. Consumers can also choose from over 20 cool visualizations ranging from graphic equalizers to dancing patterns that animate in time with the music
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Product Description:
The total number of existing players in the world is about 4000 Mk2/2a players and about 350 Mk1 players, and no more will be made. You can buy a laptop hard drive and upgrade it to more than 100GB!
What's inside the box:
The Rio Car player, arguably the coolest car stereo ever invented.
Disk drive size and number of disk drives varied depending on the model. All models below 60gb were single-drive models, leaving one of the two bays free for the addition of a second disk drive at a future date. The 60gb model had two 30gb disk drives, filling both bays.
The faceplate lens was, by default, the blue color. Lens kits, which included green, amber, and red lenses, were sold separately.
The player did not come with a radio tuner. An add-on AM/FM/RDS radio tuner module, that installs inside the dashboard behind the docking sled, was sold separately.
One DIN-sized car docking sled with four 4v line-level outputs (stereo front/rear) and two line-level aux inputs (stereo).
One credit-card sized Rio infrared remote control.
One AC adapter for using the player indoors.
One serial null modem cable for applying firmware upgrades to the player.
One USB cable for loading songs into the player.
CD-ROM disc with Windows connection software (most likely version 1.02, you can get upgrades at www.empeg.com if desired).
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Average Rating : 
Rating : - What, I can only give 5 stars?
Giving this product only 5 stars is an insult. The empeg / RioCar is such an innovative ground-breaking product that it has taken the rest of the world 10 years to catch up. If you have an extensive music collection, and have some skill with computers, then you must have an empeg. It gives control over your music collection like nothing else, it has an impressive broad range of features, and you'll always look down and smile at the amazing real time visualizations which move to the music. It may be 10 years old, but the community of users still support the player and develop new functionality for it. To find one new in the box after all these years is rare, so give this purchase some consideration. Enjoy.
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