Hey folks. I'm now at a point where I'm ready to buy an mp3 player. I pretty much know what I'm looking for, but am finding some problems with making the right decision. Maybe you guys have a suggestion I haven't yet thought of. Below is my ponderings.
Firstly, I was trying to decide whether or not I wanted a device that was an all in 1 player/recorder. Go with a player with a huge hard drive as well as a quality stereo line input, or get a killer large capacity player, then buy one of the many popular high quality flash recorders. I was pointed to an excelent all in 1, which was the iRiver h140. It could run rockbox, which would add the needed accessibility. In searching them on line, I couldn't find anywhere to purchase it. After posting to the lists, I was told that these players were discontinued, and the nmewer iRivers pretty much sucked as recorders. So here's the question. Is the iRiver h140 the best in it's class, or is there something else that is rockboxable, large capacity, and with the ability to record in stereo at high quality? I know that rockbox can be put on an iPod, but iPods can't record natively, and I don't like the idea of not being able to just use windows explorer to drag files on and off. If anyone has any ideas on a product that I'm not thinking of, let me know. It's greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
