I have an iRiver ihp-140 multi-codec player. It has a record facility, and optical/line in and out. It has 40Gb hard disk storage which has swallowed my 100 odd CD collection with consummate ease.
It handles MP3, WMA and Ogg-Vorbis file formats, and can record in MP3 and Wave file formats. I find the Ogg-Vorbis sound quality more than acceptable, and better than MP3. If you really want to pick up every last detail of a recording then Wave format is the way to go with the iHP-140, but you'll need an external mic. The only sang is that Ogg-Vorbis encoding is not yet fully supported by Windows; there are Ogg-Vorbis direct sound plug ins for Windows Media Player, and WinAmp has Ogg-Vorbis support built in. For encoding I use Ahead Nero on Windows with the Ogg-Vorbis encoding plug in, and there is a good music library manager from Red Chair software for the iRiver series. I can thoroughly recommend this player. Steve Williams. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
