Recording live music...

[jstunstall]

I know most people just got this product recently but I was wondering if anyone had any insight on this. One of my main interests in a DAP is to replace the MD for recording live shows. That said I've looked at the iRiver h3X0 series extensively before coming across this product, whose overall feature set is just better (IMO).

The question is how is line-in recording limited, or is it? I know it only records MP3, but at high bit rates I can hardly tell the difference anyway. The h3X0 series has the following limitations (as quoted from a misticriver FAQ posting):

- Recording in WAV is limited to 795MB (~75min)
- Recording in MP3 (any bitrate) is limited to 195MB (~3hr @ 128Kbps)
- Total record time is limited to 5 hours (only attainable for low bitrate MP3s)
- When the record limit is reached, the player goes back into record standby from where you can begin a new file – It is recommend that you manually stop it before it gets there so it doesn’t stop mid-song
- The battery is usually good for up to 4 hours of stop-start WAV recording. It will stop, save the file and shut down when the battery becomes critical.

How does this compare to the iAudio X5? Again, I know it only records MP3, and I'm not worried about that. I'm really want to know if recording times are limited by the player itself or just the battery life. On a side note does anyone have any clue how long the battery should be good for in this application and will the bit rate of the MP3 being produced have an influence?

Thanks in advance.

[jstunstall]

anyone?

[bradavon]

I'd pm someone who owns it such as eXity. I've not seen any mention of a limit if that helps.

[BlackFlag79]

Some relevant quotes from the manual:

"Maximum capacity for a single recording is 268MB. A new file will be created and start recording if the capacity is exceeded."

"Recording consumes more battery power than usual. Be sure to fully charge the battery before recording."

"If there is less than 128MB space available on the disk, the recording will not start. If the available space becomes less than 128MB during recording, the recording will end."

"Up to 999 files can be recorded."

[bradavon]

That's good news then, mostly.

You'll just need to keep an eye on it so it when it gets near the 268Mb mark you realise you'll lose some recording while it changes file (maybe???)

[jstunstall]

thanks a bunch.