[ale] Recording "iPod"

[Michael Still]

On 04/20/05 at  7:07 PM Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>  This looks just like what I need. And cheaper than the iPod too.
> How easy is it to manage multiple playlists on the thing? I've
> got gobs of CDs I wanna put on here and they are of a very WIDE
> style so random shuffle of the whole mess won't cut it. Also what
> do you think of the picture viewing? Does it just resize to fit
> the display or keep its natural size? How clear is it? Do you buy
> these locally or online?
>
It'll play from a m3u file so i guess its easy to just keep different 
ones and let it play through them.  I don't use this feature though, I 
usually just start playing from a folder.  I'll try it out and see how 
it does....  Hmm.. well I guess it works pretty well.  I just used 
winamp to make a playlist and saved it to the drive and loaded it and 
its playing.  I hadn't used this feature before.

The image viewing is not too bad. It shrinks it to the screen.  As far 
as I can tell you can't make it expand it either and pan around.

The UI is nice and clean.  The display is sharp.

I bought my h320 at Best Buy, but they were on clearance and might be 
hard to find.

If you are willing to play around a little, then you can get it to play 
video as well since the chip can do it.  You have to load some firmware 
and a couple other small things too.  I haven't done this yet myself 
though. (probably won't since I just got a PSP!)

One thing that's nice is that it just works on Winblows/OS X/Linux as a 
drive.  No funky drivers to load anywhere.

>     many thanx,
>             Ben Scherrey
>
>  Michael Still wrote:
>
>  >Iriver h320 and h340. I got one just after xmas. Its been great.
>  >Records from line in and fm radio as well as voice mic.
>  >
>  >On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:04 pm, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>  >
>  >>I love the photo iPod and would love to buy one except it
>  >>doesn't have the critical feature I need. I need a "line-in"
>  >>plug so I can record audio directly to my iPod or equivalent
>  >>from another device. There are some voice mic recorders but they
>  >>don't accept a plug input and their quality is quite poor.
>  >>Anyone know of an accessory or another player that has this
>  >>ability?
>  >>
>  >>   thanx & later,
>  >>
>  >>      Ben Scherrey
>  >