Yeah, iRiver initially stayed out of the US market and instead had a exclusive agreement with sonicblue (later renamed Rio Audio) to market the iRiver products under the RioVolt brand. They took some time to recover after that. My first MP3 player was a RioVolt SP-250 (http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/rio-volt-sp250/4505-6490_7-6913666.html) that played MP3s from CDs. It was a simple hack to get the more capable iRiver firmware and edit an ID string in the file to get it loaded on the RioVolt.
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Yeah, iRiver initially stayed out of the US market and instead had a exclusive agreement with sonicblue (later renamed Rio Audio) to market the iRiver products under the RioVolt brand. They took some time to recover after that. My first MP3 player was a RioVolt SP-250 (http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/rio-volt-sp250/4505-6490_7-6913666.html) that played MP3s from CDs. It was a simple hack to get the more capable iRiver firmware and edit an ID string in the file to get it loaded on the RioVolt.