Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

2009-09-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Woot! often has refurb Sansas at good prices. Also, consider installing Rockbox

Re: Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

2009-09-23 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:59:21PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Luckily, the Sansa devices seem to be nigh indestructible--so if you get one onto which you can load Rockbox, you shouldn't need to worry much about how you'll never be able to replace it when it breaks :) I've been using

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Susan Cragin
if the subject is not too far away and the microphone is pointing in their direction. And I spend something like $89 on it. Unhappily yours,Susan-Original Message- From: Arc Riley <arcri...@gmail.com> Sent: Sep 22, 2009 12:43 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Digital Voice Rec

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clipplus-mp3-player-.aspx Voice recording and plays MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC. Inexpensive too. Arc, Thanks a lot! This is far more feature-rich than any of the devices I

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Arc Riley writes: The sandisk is a much better deal. 2gigs flash for just $30 *and* has a microSDHC slot. Mounts as a standard USB drive. Small, bright OLED screen, and you can dual purpose it to play all your .ogg and .flac files. downside is voice recording only works to .wav - you

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Ted Roche
On 09/22/2009 09:07 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: Arc Rileyarcri...@gmail.com writes: http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clipplus-mp3-player-.aspx Voice recording and plays MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC. Inexpensive too. Arc, Thanks a lot!

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Seth Cohn
It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Woot! often has refurb Sansas at good prices. Also, consider installing Rockbox on many different models for better Linux

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Arc Riley
It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Note that there is a difference between Clip and Clip+; as I understand the new Clip+ has Ogg and FLAC support. For the small

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Chabot
jim.mcginn...@att.net wrote: If a price around $150 is in your range, In that range, I've been happy with this one: http://www.music123.com/Musicians-Gear-MUSICIANS-GEAR-HANDHELD-STEREO-DIGITAL--RECORDER-58-i1432656.Music123 (In case the link breaks, try this one: http://bit.ly/1U1W7N )