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poltr1Last week, I saw a digital voice recorder in an arcade game called "Lighthouse". It has a spinning dial, and the object is to rack up 6 points. Well, after $3.00 worth of tokens, I was nowhere near getting the voice recorder. Ah well, it was probably a cheap one anyway (the brand name of the voice recorder was Coby).
And I began thinking.....is there a digital voice recorder out there that plays MP3 files? I don't think the Apple iPod has any voice recording capabilities. If it's there, it's not advertised.
Some initial searching on buy.com came up with two items from Creative Labs: the Zen and the MuVo. The Zen has a built-in hard drive -- not good if I'm klutzy with the device and drop it. And it's expensive -- price is between $200-$250. The MuVo has flash memory (and thus a smaller capacity) -- but it's less expensive than the Zen.
My current frontrunner is the Creative MuVo Micro N200, 512 Mb capacity, black case.
My specs: I'm looking for the ability to record several "tracks" of voice messages (or live music) that I can step through (a la Landware's GoVox, which can record up to 99 racks but has a grand total of 8 minutes for all tracks), a USB 2 or FireWire connection, and the capability to play MP3 files. I prefer flash media to miniature hard drives. Swappable flash media is nice but not necessary.
Any recommendations? Anything I should stay away from?
And I began thinking.....is there a digital voice recorder out there that plays MP3 files? I don't think the Apple iPod has any voice recording capabilities. If it's there, it's not advertised.
Some initial searching on buy.com came up with two items from Creative Labs: the Zen and the MuVo. The Zen has a built-in hard drive -- not good if I'm klutzy with the device and drop it. And it's expensive -- price is between $200-$250. The MuVo has flash memory (and thus a smaller capacity) -- but it's less expensive than the Zen.
My current frontrunner is the Creative MuVo Micro N200, 512 Mb capacity, black case.
My specs: I'm looking for the ability to record several "tracks" of voice messages (or live music) that I can step through (a la Landware's GoVox, which can record up to 99 racks but has a grand total of 8 minutes for all tracks), a USB 2 or FireWire connection, and the capability to play MP3 files. I prefer flash media to miniature hard drives. Swappable flash media is nice but not necessary.
Any recommendations? Anything I should stay away from?
