Although the user interface is a bit of a pain, iRiver's IFP-series MP3 player/recorders are a great deal, and you can plug your existing headset right into the 1/8" mini-mic port and record away. You have control over the recording bitrate, and files move via USB directly to MP3 files on your computer, Windows or Mac.
Minuses? Well, the user interface, as I mentioned; built-in flash memory instead of swappable cards; and you have to use the iRiver software (Windows or Mac, as I mentioned) to move files on or off. The biggest downside is, like Apple's iPods, if you move MP3 or other music files onto the iRiver, you can't move them off again. (Recordings and other files come off no problem.) But it does play .ogg format, and runs on a single AA battery.
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Derek K. Miller @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM
Although the user interface is a bit of a pain, iRiver's IFP-series MP3 player/recorders are a great deal, and you can plug your existing headset right into the 1/8" mini-mic port and record away. You have control over the recording bitrate, and files move via USB directly to MP3 files on your computer, Windows or Mac.
Minuses? Well, the user interface, as I mentioned; built-in flash memory instead of swappable cards; and you have to use the iRiver software (Windows or Mac, as I mentioned) to move files on or off. The biggest downside is, like Apple's iPods, if you move MP3 or other music files onto the iRiver, you can't move them off again. (Recordings and other files come off no problem.) But it does play .ogg format, and runs on a single AA battery.