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I've been planning on buying an mp3 player, but it occurred to me that
I should just kill two birds with one stone and buy one that can
record, too. Then I can record band rehearsals and stuff. Can someone
recommend one to me? I was thinking about getting the iRiver H10, but
it didn't get very good reviews on Amazon.

[Mike Rivers]

wrote:
I've been planning on buying an mp3 player, but it occurred to me that
I should just kill two birds with one stone and buy one that can
record, too. Then I can record band rehearsals and stuff. Can someone
recommend one to me? I was thinking about getting the iRiver H10, but
it didn't get very good reviews on Amazon.

I did a little research on recorders of this ilk not too long ago and
discovered that there really weren't any more new ones being made that
recorded. I'm a big fan of the Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3 but that's
been out of production for a couple of years now. Still, I'd recommend
it.

The current hot product is the solid state memory recorder and there
are a slew of them. I wonder how bad the new Zoom H4 is? It costs $300
and looks really cool, almost like a parody of the $1600 Sony.

[LAB]

Look for a iRiver H120 in eBay, then install Rockbox operating system.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

wrote:

I've been planning on buying an mp3 player, but it occurred to me that
I should just kill two birds with one stone and buy one that can
record, too. Then I can record band rehearsals and stuff. Can someone
recommend one to me? I was thinking about getting the iRiver H10, but
it didn't get very good reviews on Amazon.

My GF has an H10 and she uses it for recording university classes. It
works well enough. But I'd go with the advice of another poster and get
an H120 or H140. They're out of production but they probably have the
best feature set for recording purposes esp. with the Rockbox firmware.

I have an H140 myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H140

Ximinez
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and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/paulfitz/spanish/t1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A

[drichard]

Hi,

I use an iRiver H320, and it works great for the purposes you've
described. It records to MP3 with the built-in firmware, or you can add
the Rockbox firmware to allow it to record to WAV. I use it as my MP3
player and also to record board mixes at gigs. Sound quality is very
good, and I'm very pleased with it.

Dean

wrote:
I've been planning on buying an mp3 player, but it occurred to me that
I should just kill two birds with one stone and buy one that can
record, too. Then I can record band rehearsals and stuff. Can someone
recommend one to me? I was thinking about getting the iRiver H10, but
it didn't get very good reviews on Amazon.

[[email protected]]

wrote:

I've been planning on buying an mp3 player, but it occurred to me that
I should just kill two birds with one stone and buy one that can
record, too. Then I can record band rehearsals and stuff. Can someone
recommend one to me? I was thinking about getting the iRiver H10, but
it didn't get very good reviews on Amazon.

I bought an Edirol r-09 last month, you can hear piano recordings at
http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/audio.html. Most of the Irish
dance music ones were recorded with the R09 placed on the floor just
in front of the piano. Very easy as compared to the Gershwin one,
which required setting up microphone, interface and computer. It can
use 2 AA batteries, so I bought rechargeables, it's cheap to run. And
a 2GB card gives about 3.25 hours of stereo recording. Records in wav
or mp3 at several bit-rates etc. Some good reviews via google.
gerry