How do I get the RIO 500 player to work on Windows 2000?

A. I bought one of these and wasted ages trying to getit to work until I found some great instructions at http://sites.netscape.net/richij/rio500-win2000.html.The instructions show you how to use a special USB driver and a special versionof the Audio software.

An alternative method which I've since found is to use the same USB driver (http://www.ntfaq.com/download/riousb.zip)and extract to a directory. Attach the RIO500 via USB and power it on. When itasks for a driver specify the location you extracted the ZIP to.

To actually copy the MP3 files to the RIO500 you can use RealJukeBox (http://www.realjukebox.com)which has a RIO500 add-on which is great. If you have trouble installing theadd-on (maybe due to a firewall) just extract rio500.dll from http://www.ntfaq.com/download/rio500.zip to the Plug-in's directory of Real Jukebox (C:Program FilesRealRealJukeboxplugins),restart the software and you should be able to add it as a device (Options -Preferences - Portable players/storage - Add) and copy away. Its very cool :-)

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