Last year I bought a used MP3 player off of someone… an older Rio I think. Well, using it again lately on walks to work, I find that the battery is… temperamental. Emphasis on the mental. It doesn’t want to hold a charge.

So, today I took it apart. (Man, these things are made a little shock resistant…)

Find the battery isn’t as integrated as I thought, I can unplug it from the board and take it out… so I look up the model number on it.

Keep in mine, I paid $20 last year for the player.

The cheapest I can find a replacement battery is $21.95.

Well, this is getting further disassembled and added to the parts bin…