4
R
IO
K
IT
O
VERVIEW
Take a moment to examine the components provided with your
Rio PMP300 kit in the following photo:
A –
Rio PMP300 player
E –
Installation and MP3
sampler CDs
B –
Headphones
F –
AA battery
C –
15-pin data transfer cable
G
*
–
Add-on flash memory
D –
Parallel port adapter
*Not included. To order, contact Diamond
Customer Service at 1-800-4-M
ULTIMEDIA
Rio is designed to connect easily to your PC for downloading
MP3 files. Before you can enjoy high-quality audio with your Rio
Player, you must first connect the parallel port adapter (see
following section) and install the Rio software (see Chapter 2).
Chapter 3 instructs you on how to download MP3 files into Rio’s
flash memory using
the Rio Manager
.
R
IO
H
ARDWARE
I
NSTALLATION
Rio takes advantage of the parallel port on your computer for
MP3 data transfer. To set up Rio for MP3 file transfers, you need
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
*