I just got mine and it's great. Not as good as the empeg, but hey, for 100$!!!. The thing I would like to see (will certainly be on the Pearl) is Insert/Enqueue. Other than that, the fact that playlists HAVE to be created on the player is a little bad too, but again, you can still get some cassette walkman for 99.99$ or a Riot for the same price.. choice isn't hard.


The biggest problem I have is, like many others, the software bundled with it. BUT, I found that moodlogic, even unregistred, is able to upload songs to the riot. It's still way overkill for the job, but at least, it's not Real(tm) ;-) For some unknown reasons, Real will hang at third or forth song transfered and only way to quit is to Reset my PC (because I can't quit Real because a transfer to a portable device is being done AND even if I press Cancel transfer, it doesn't cancel and will try forever). Moodlogic sometimes hangs too, but if I choose End Process, it will.... I can then restart it and continue from where it stopped.

Patrick