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I expected it to be a little bit smaller but I'm happy with the operation. It works great. I'm waiting for someone to make a tiny thumbdrive voice recorder and I'll get that too.
This is a good thing. It records files that end in.DVF and while I can play them on my computer and on the voice recorder just fine, I have struggled with trying to convert them to.WAV or something else for editing purposes. I was able to record and ride at the same time without significant wind being recorded. There is minimal resources available to help with this situation though I don't think it's impossible to do if you're a computer nerd. The hold button serves as the units off button and I must've turned it on and off a million times without any problems. This is true. Even on this setting, you can record hours and hours and hours. With the headphones on, the playback is plenty loud.The one thing that I don't fancy so much about this model is that it's difficult to convert from the recorder's file format to something more common.
However, I never used the external playback option so it wasn't an issue for me. Never had any lost of corrupted files despite the elements giving it a daily punishing. Recorded everything I wanted. The AAA battery seemed to last forever, that is until I started using the MP3 playback option -- using music, it probably lasts 5 hours or so.Anyhoo, I was very happy with the voice recorder.
I don't know exactly how long, but I never ran out of time.What else. The voice recorder held up beautifully against five months of weather and extensive use every single day. There are multiple settings for recording quality and I always kept it on the highest quality. Whenever I wanted to listen to the voice recordings, I just put on a set of small headphones I had with me. I'll have to check that out.This unit served my purposes perfectly. Never broke down. I noticed that other reviews are saying that its playback volume is pretty weak. Oh -- I just noticed that someone else on these reviews said that you can "easily convert" the files with a program called "Switch".
I bought this puppy when it was first available through Sony in September of 2006 for the sole intention of recording all my thoughts while on a 7,000 mile bicycle ride around the country. It's real small and light. I made an armband holder for it and away I went. Hmm. It's very simple to operate without having to look down at it. The USB interface worked flawlessly. It worked out very well.
Every other mp3 voice recorder I've gotten records in a compressed wav format which is totally unreliable and I've lost messages that are unrecoverable, at random times. This records on its proprietary format, which produces wonderfully small files - which can easily be converted to any other format in the world with one click on your PC if you get a 3rd-party program called Switch. It's a great bargain; I use it for its voice recording feature, at which it far surpasses any other brand. I highly recommend it.
Because they are a huge conglomerate that owns a lot of copyrighted material (movies, music, etc)., they are paranoid about you converting any of it to something that might be useful to you in a format that is not a proprietary Sony format.This is the company that put hacker software on their CD's to try and prevent people from ripping Sony CD's.While there technology is often very good, their philosophy will be their ruination. Sony has a schizophrenic approach to their products. Avoid the problem by buying a digital recorder from a company without psychological problems.
I can't listen to the recordings on the actual player though, I have to transfer them to the computer and play them with an audio player- the volume of the recordings is too quiet on the recorder itself. The quality of the recordings is fine once you get them transfered. I bought this recorder to do one-on-one interviews. The folders and the amount of storage on the recorder are great, but if I would have known that you can not listen to the files on the recorder I would have never purchased this.
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