Despite the recent release of Apple music program, iTunes, Casady & Greeneis SoundJam MP continues to be a wildly popular product. The full-featured MP3 player/encoder has just been updated to version 2.5.3, adding support for the recently released Rio 800 portable MP3 player. According to Casady & Greene:

Casady & Greene, Inc. announced today the release of version 2.5.3 of SoundJam MP Plus, the premier all-in-one player and encoder for the Macintosh, and SoundJam MP Free, a top-notch MP3 player for the Mac. This release of SoundJam fixes some minor issues in the previous version and supports the just released Rio 800 portable audio player from SONICblue formally known as S3.

SoundJam MP Plus is the premier full-featured, all-in-one MP3 player and encoder for the Macintosh. The pure quality and ease of use of SoundJam establishes SoundJam MP Plus as the best MP3 player and encoder on the market. SoundJam MP Plus encodes your entire music collection whether it be on CD, Vinyl, or Cassette into high quality MP3 files. SoundJam MP Plus encodes faster on all Macintoshes and the G4 optimization makes it even zippier on the PowerMac G4 with Velocity Engine.

SoundJam MP Plus is the two-time Macworld Eddy award winning , all-in-one player and encoder that allows Macintosh users to create MP3 files from their audio CDs, and download the songs into portable MP3 audio players like the Rio 500, 600, 800 from SONICblue, the Nomad II, Nomad II MG and Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs, Ltd., and Nike psa[play(TM) from Nike, Inc..

SoundJam MP Plus is available for US$39.95, while SoundJam MP is available for free. You can find more information at the SoundJam Web site.