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Sounds like a cool player with great features. I would like something similar but with a lot more storage capacity. That's the only reason I've been sticking with the iPod is storage space. No one else seems to be offering anything with 80 or 160 GB of space. Based totally on capacity the iPod is still the best thing for someone with a large music collection. Anyone know of anything with the features of the iAudio, but with the capacity of the iPod?Patrick wrote:I really like the iAudio line from Cowon. I've had an iAudio5 for a long time now and it's still working fine. It fits all of your requirements but I don't think they sell that model anymore. I believe the successor is the iAudio7. It does everything that the 5 does plus the following:
- 4 gig of storage
- plays flac files (besides mp3, ogg, wav, wma)
- you can schedule radio recordings with the FM tuner
- has a rechargeable battery
- displays pictures (jpeg)
- display txt files
- can play video (avi & mp4)
I think they sell for about $140.
Another cool device from Cowon is the D2. Aaron Newcome had one at OLF and I was checking it out. It has a bigger screen for video playback, handles more video codecs and has a touch screen interface. A very slick device. That model sells for like $185.
Like the iAudio5 I believe both devices are mounted as usb mass storage devices so all you need to do is plug it in and drag and drop files.
Check out newegg. If you don't want to spend that much I'll sell you mine for $75.
I can't talk about the devices I don't own. The Iaudio 5 has a scroll wheel on the bottom used to navigate directories. It has a scroll wheel on top to power on/off the device (by holding it in for 2 secs), fast foward, rewind and pause. It has a mode button in the middle to switch between audio playback, voice recording, line-in recording and radio play. The device will be in whatever mode you were in before shutting down last. The next button on top is the record button. The quickest way to do voice recordings is stay in voice record mode and just hit the record button. To get from audio playback to record is 3 taps (hit the pause on playback wheel, hit the mode button to go to record mode, hit the record button to start recording. Hope that helps.hellonorman wrote:Can anyone explain how the voice recording works on these devices? Like for instance what would the procedure be if you were listening to an mp3 and then needed to take a quick voice note?
It really sounds like you want two different devices. One to play mp3s and one to do voice recording. Sometimes having an all in one is not the best solution. I would suggesting finding a really cheap like $20-$30 digital recorder, storage should not matter if you just want to record a few voice notes. I use an old 128meg IRIVER and it can hold 4-5 hours of voice recordings, even with a few mp3 podcasts on there too.hellonorman wrote:Can anyone explain how the voice recording works on these devices? Like for instance what would the procedure be if you were listening to an mp3 and then needed to take a quick voice note?
Yeah, I'm right there with you. I keep waiting for one of the alternative players to look enough better than an ipod to ditch my ancient 3g, but nothing has managed to fill all the requirements. I was really hoping that cowon was going to come out with a kickass replacement for the iaudio, but it looks like almost everyone is moving to small, solidstate storage rather than better palyer with larger drive. What the hell ever happened to neuros? As far as I can tell, their audio player project has fallen off the face of the planet. Ah well, my ipod still works...jamathis wrote:Sounds like a cool player with great features. I would like something similar but with a lot more storage capacity. That's the only reason I've been sticking with the iPod is storage space. No one else seems to be offering anything with 80 or 160 GB of space. Based totally on capacity the iPod is still the best thing for someone with a large music collection. Anyone know of anything with the features of the iAudio, but with the capacity of the iPod?
Solid state is the future. Personally I like the trend, then again I'm not one of these people who wants to carry around their entire music collection. As far as Neuros, we're talking to Joe Born on 10/17. We'll have to ask him why they stopped working on the audio player?Snarkout wrote: I was really hoping that cowon was going to come out with a kickass replacement for the iaudio, but it looks like almost everyone is moving to small, solid state storage rather than better player with larger drive. What the hell ever happened to neuros? As far as I can tell, their audio player project has fallen off the face of the planet.
Oh, I agree, I just don't like the size hit. I carry a lot more than music on my ipod, though.Patrick wrote:Solid state is the future. Personally I like the trend, then again I'm not one of these people who wants to carry around their entire music collection.
That would be great - I was really surprised when I checked out their website a while ago and saw that they've pruned their product line back to the OSD and the recorder. I have to assume that the audio player was just not a money maker for them, though, considering all of the other insanely awesome players out thee at this point.As far as Neuros, we're talking to Joe Born on 10/17. We'll have to ask him why they stopped working on the audio player?