ipod's, iriver's, etc...

[TomTom]

Re: ipod's, iriver's, etc...

I bought myself a 20 Gb Ipod last week...mainly to use it in my car as a harddisc so I must never change CD's again. I was surprised how good the sound via the regular headphones is though. I had expensive walk- and discmen before but the Ipod beats them all.

The battery provides music for 12 hours which is fair enough. The Ipod is small and light and it looks just pretty cool and makes women wet. Okay the last part is a fat lie...my imagination went through with me...please forgive me as I am only a victim of the society around me.

What I don't like is that they force you to use Itunes (it's not possible to drag and drop Music via Explorer on the Ipod) which I think sucks because I already have a media playback device for my PC but oh well what can you do...another detail I did not like too much is that you can't keep the lights on the menus on as they turn off automatically after a few seconds. I like to listen to Music in bed in darkness and run the Ipod with electricity so the battery is not affected but I can't see shit on the menus and always have to turn the lights on again for a change of music which is kinda annoying.

[stoneskid]

Try the new dell mini. Have not see it in person, but it looks nice in pictures

[darktribal]

How long before we see color screens?

They are out now!! I just picked up the iriver h320 last week and it is amazing so far. Around 15 hours battery life, similar size to the ipod, color screen, fm radio, picture viewing capabilities, etc.

Prob. isn't as user friendly as ipods are, but it took me a whole 10 mins. to learn how to use everything. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS!!!

[doobie581]

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DAMN, I've been wanting to get a player for about a month now, but haven't been able to decide on which one. Now I'm prolly more confused then ever. I've been leaning towards the iriver. But i don't know if i should get the h140 before they are extinct since they discontinued them, or should i get the h340. They are both pretty much the same price. This sux.

[Majik]

i got an IHP 320 as well, very happy with it.

[neoee]

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If you're a DJ who is looking to record gigs with one of these things, beware of the Iriver... you can't control the recording volume so if the line level is too loud coming out of your mixer there's nothing you can do about distortion save turning your mixer down (which at a gig is probably not an option unless you can convince management to turn up the amps).

Thats false there IS a input level control.

[kfitz]

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I'll only be using it as a player so mainly I'm only worried about it being user friendly and having decent battery life. My plan is to use it to store the sets I download. Once I listen to the set, if it's good I'll burn it to cd and if not i'll just delete it. I think 20 gigs will be more than enough as my current computer's harddrive is only 12gigs and i already have more sets than i can listen to... That's why I'm leaning towards the Dell because it's easy to use and it's only $200 bucks...

[CSquare]

the dell dj is pretty cheap right now since the next generation one is coming out next month.

[palmer]

How long before we see color screens?

apple will probably release 5th gen before christmas

[djrichwoods]

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Thats false there IS a input level control.

In researching my reply, I discovered that it seems that they've corrected the problem with the 300 series, which is great news. But we were using a 100 series in Germany and you cannot control the recording volume on that model.

So thanks for replying, it helped me clarify my point.

[Stu]

As far as I'm aware with the 100 series, you can set the recording level, but not while you are recording. You need to stop the recording, change the setting and start again, also there is no method of monitoring the levels while you are recording so you have to judge off the mixer.

My mixer has a -10db record rca out as do many club mixers, so as long as the master out isn't redlining above 10db you should be fine.

[swedetech]

How long before we see color screens?

apple will probably release 5th gen before christmas

what do you base that on? 4th gen didn't come out for that long ago...

[djrichwoods]

As far as I'm aware with the 100 series, you can set the recording level, but not while you are recording. You need to stop the recording, change the setting and start again, also there is no method of monitoring the levels while you are recording so you have to judge off the mixer.

My mixer has a -10db record rca out as do many club mixers, so as long as the master out isn't redlining above 10db you should be fine.

I looked around that thing and I saw nothing about recording level. The manual also says this:

Volume level can not be controlled on the iHP while recording from an external device.

The same condition exists w/ the 300 but the manual does indicate that the recording level can be set prior to recording (you still can't control it during recording). However, the iriver still has the annoying 200 mb limit on mp3 files which means that if you're trying to record a 5 hour set you can't get it all in one file and you'll probably miss parts of a record setting up a new file to record into.

[spooner24]

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NW-HD1 20GB Hard Disc Drive Network Walkman

30!!!! hours play back

and as small an ipod mini

?230 cant b bad

[neoee]

As far as I'm aware with the 100 series, you can set the recording level, but not while you are recording. You need to stop the recording, change the setting and start again, also there is no method of monitoring the levels while you are recording so you have to judge off the mixer.

My mixer has a -10db record rca out as do many club mixers, so as long as the master out isn't redlining above 10db you should be fine.

I looked around that thing and I saw nothing about recording level. The manual also says this:

Volume level can not be controlled on the iHP while recording from an external device.

The same condition exists w/ the 300 but the manual does indicate that the recording level can be set prior to recording (you still can't control it during recording). However, the iriver still has the annoying 200 mb limit on mp3 files which means that if you're trying to record a 5 hour set you can't get it all in one file and you'll probably miss parts of a record setting up a new file to record into.

Rich- you checked to see what firmware you are running? It may have been something they added on a later firmware update. I would imagine that since my ifp series can be adjusted you should definately be able to change it on the ihp series.