Great for Playing or Recording

I bought this mp3 player mainly because of its recording capabilities.

It has a built in mike and an input for a line-in or external mike. You can monitor the recording since it has separate line-in & headphone jacks. Many other mp3 players/recorders have one shared jack.

It also has a built in radio, you can record the radio also. It has a timer feature so you can set it to record a program even if your not there.

You can choose from from a record rate of 8khz mono that would give you over 200 hours on the 4GB version of cell phone quality audio ( for notes or recording meeting) to 44khz stereo that gives you recordings that sound almost as good as the source you are recording. And you still get 24 hours at 44khz. For the 2GB or 1Gb versions the times would be 1/2 or 1/4. It uses ADPCM compression in a WAV file that can be opened or edited on most any computer. At 44khz it has a bitrate about 420kb, about double the standard mp3 file.

It is easy to transfer files on and off the player. It shows up as a standard drive and you can drop, drag or copy your music to it. No dealing with Windows Media Player or Itunes wanting you to upgraded each time you use the program or having to wait as they sync music you dont want copied.

The only problems I have found is there is no record level indicators (UV meters). You have to monitIt is easy to transfer files on and off the player.

It shows up as a standard drive and you can drop, drag or copy your music to it. No dealing with Windows Media Player or Itunes wanting you to upgraded each time you use the program or having to wait as they sync music you dont want copied. Because of that it also works on Linux and other operating systems.


or the level in the headphone and adjust your source. Hopefully this future will be added in a future firmware release.