usb download vs recording?

[psych]

i must be missing something here.

do all hi-md machines have a usb input?

if so could a player download tracks onto itself? and therefore, the only difference between it and a real recorder, is that the recorder can do external recordings?

or is it only possible to use the usb in this fashion for downloading data, and having the machine act as a usb mass storage device?

if the former is the case, then i'd have no real need for a recorder (unles si needed ot do real recording). i could use the pc to rip cd's, and then transfer them to a player via usb?

[The_Stamp]

(edit: these are not quite answers, but more of altering your questions into facts. )

this really belongs in the question sticky... but i'll let that slide (not that i can, but anywho)

1. yes, all hi-md machines have usb.

2. rephrase that....

3. the only difference between a downloader and a recorder is the mic/line in inputs. thats all. (except for the 600, which lacks the AC adapter input).

you can also use the machine (im assuming the hi-md device) as a USB mass storage device, as well as downloading music from any of the 3 inputs (1 if its a downloader).

last question: yup. if you won't need to do live recording, or have the urge to record stuff from your stereo (using line in), then i would suggest getting a downloader. but since the 600 has no AC adapter input, i believe that thing to be utterly useless, as i listen to my 510 3 hours a day, theni charge the battery back up at night. (saved me 100's of dollars by now, got it in 2001)

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for those who noticed, the 510 didn't exist back then. back then i got a 505, but then it crapped out, and they replaced it with a 510

[psych]

sigh.. that'll teach me for not reading thorugh the question sticky first

technically, a downloader would be great for me. i backup most of my stuff to the pc as VBR mp3s, more for ease of use than anything.

however then i saw the prices. the mzh3d is japan only and would cost more than any of the others to import to the uk

and then i found that i could get a mzh1 for £190 (~$300) i only hope the mzh900 will be discounted as much, since that looks to be my machine of choice now. specially with the battery options seeming to be lacking on the nh1.

thanks for the help.