Rio carbon 5 gig mp3

1. look on ebay for battery if anybody would sell one.
2. go to walmart look in the flash drive isle for a sandisk ultra 2 cf card 8gb about 40$ .
3. open the rio and take out the old hard drive and then find a pc to format the cf card with a cf card reader make sure to format with windows 7 in my computer and choose quick format select default allocation size and then hit start.
4. when succesfully formatted put cf drive in rio carbon.
5. then put back plate back on carbon.
6. then look here for rio carbon developers firmware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Carbon
7. go to bottom of wikipedia page and click 3.04 Download link 1 and download the exe program and then run as administrater load up the firmware and then walla you have a working mp3 player again.

You cannot restore the player without a computer but by formatting your drive and re-loading the Rio Carbon Firmware, you can reset it to factory settings.
The Developers cut firmware (latest (unofficial) firmware) is still available here:
http://biomoose.com/files/rio/carbon%203.04.EXE

Hello,
Try to transfer the tracks from the explorer.
1 Connect the Rio Carbon to a computer using the supplied USB cable.
2 Double-click My Computer on the Windows Desktop or in the Start Menu.
3 Locate MP3 or WMA audio files on the computer.
4 Highlight files and/or folders to transfer to the Rio Carbon.
5 Click Edit.
6 Click Copy.
7 Double-click My Computer on the Windows Desktop or in the Start Menu to open another window.
8 In the new window, locate the Rio Carbon (X:) icon that is associated with the Rio Carbon. (X equals the drive
letter assigned to the Rio Carbon.)
9 Double-click Rio Carbon (X:).
10Click Edit.
11Click Paste.

connect it to i tunes make sure you have the latest itunes downloaded and visit ipod.about.com/od/tes1/ss/setting_up_ipod.htm

Hello,

i found the following solution:

1 Press MENU.
2 Select Settings.
3 Select Equalizer.

For more specific information follow the following link, its a manual. It answers you question on page 31.

http://www.rioaudio.com/support/rio/downloads/Carbon/RioCarbonPlaysForSure.pdf

Good luck

I would advise getting a new player now because although the Rio carbon was good in it's day it's kinda lacking in features and tech in comparison to other newer players. Although I have one I would not get another one unless I bought it cheap to repair my current one.

I am afraid that I do not know if the iTunes podcast transferal would work with other players as I have not ever tried it.

MP4's are a video format so they are not likely to replace mp3 audio files!

Personally I would not buy an ipod unless you want a lot of storage and then I would recommend an ipod classic but if you are wanting a smaller capacity player then I would recommend looking into the samsung players but it depends on what you like the look of. I like touchscreen devices so I would probably buy a samsung YP-P2 but it is intirely down to personal preference.

Hope this helps,

Mowcius

Try accessing the rio's hard drive through my computer to see if it can find the songs: they will be in a folder aptly called music within your rio carbon.

If this doesn't help then if it is picked up via my computer you could try wiping and rebooting your rio, read:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r601327-wipe_reboot_rio_carbon

You may have to change the firmware for the rio carbon pearl but this is easy to find on their website.

Hope this helps,

Mowcius

Start with these five simple solutions: Reset, retry, restart, reinstall, or restore http://www.apple.com/support/ipod.five_rs/

Go to Main Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Transfer Mode and select MSC. Worked for me.

When Microsoft initiated the DRM system, any Rio Carbon that was hooked into Windows Media Player had the previously working files invalidated. Happened to me as well. The player lasted me three years, and that is about as long as any Mp3 player is going to last we are finding out b/c of all the software snafus.