So better to have severall small ones instead of one big one. Thank you for the information!

Oh and when you go to the Music section and then to All Music it will only look at the internal memory. So when you want to play music off your micro SD card you will have to go to the Directory Listing, select external memory and then play the music.

I am going to ask the seller for a 50 percent refund. I guess that is reasonable. It is sad because the player does have potential.

It seems to have around 4GB of real memory , the rest of memory is useless as you cannot even retrieve files , neither does it play music,video or show pics if its more than 4GB .

The player does play AVI files with Xvid codec , shows JPEG and GIF images as thumbnails and loads them pretty fast. Overall its really good player for its price , just keep in mind that its actually 4GB.

anyway of actually making it 4gb?

similar but different problem. I purchased one of these from a Hong Kong Ebay seller for music storage and playback only. Btw, it is 30 plus GB. Initially I could not get it to work until after reformating the drive. Since then I have loaded music by drag and drop and am listening to it now. It actually sounds pretty good and for $33.00 i think it may be a bargain. However I find the controls very confusing. Any suggestions?

You are saying you formatted it and it fully works ? i formatted it as well few times but there is no way to make use of more than 4 GB . Mine was $24 but its probably the same . anyway its not possible to get a real 32gb memory storage device for that price and thats an mp4 even , so manufacturers probably use this fake memory advertising to sell it ,otherwise wouldnt attract so much attention and I am sure none of us would buy it :)

Hi,

I also just bought one of these player, and first it worked fine, but after it went in sleep-modus, the player doesn't startup anymore and the only thing I see is HellO.. Can somebody help me?

Thanks a lot!

Sorry, I wrote too soon. After reformating it played the first few songs only. I have written the following to the seller hoping for a refund:

Re: the RIZONE MP3 player
Bottom Line: It does not work, please refund my money.

Hi,

I have now spent the most of 3 days attempting to get this unit to work properly. I have followed all of your instructions and suggestions. It does play a few, very few songs, that I have loaded. I have not tried any other functions.

I have an HP Computer with Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System.

When connecting to the computer by USB the computer does not recognize the RIZONE player as another drive. After several attempts and changing the connections they will recognize each other. After this recognition I have, on many attempts, tried to load Music on MP3 files by drag and drop. This is always followed by various error messages. Usually the error message is “An unexpected error prevented the operation. Make a note of this error code, which might be useful if you get additional help to resolve this problem.

Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.”

I have received other error messages. One of the more common is that there are errors on the drive (Drive H the RIZONE.) and that I had choices to make: “ 1) Automatically fix file system errors and 2) Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.” in an effort to resolve these issues I have placed check marks in the boxes next to both options and, after several attempts and many hours, this message still appears.

To solve these problems I have tried many things, including but not limited to, following your suggestion to reformat the RIZONE. Following the reformat I have replaced all the files in the PLAYLIST Folder. None of these actions solved the problems associated with this MP3 player. After reformatting I still get the above error messages.

As nothing works please refund my money.

If you want me to return this non-working unit to you please send me the postage. However it appears to me that the cost of shipping, repairing and restocking would far exceed any value that this non working unit may have.

I've tried a 4GB micro SCHC card and it did fine. However, after about a week, the unit quit keeping a charge. When I charge it, it will say it is full. But, when not connected to the PC via USB, it shows low battery and and will not play. It seems to be going downhill. I player will now only work connected to the PC. Virtually useless now, since I can do the same thing on my PC.