nebben123 Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 i record live shows as a hobby, using a sony md-s1 with a good preamp and mics. i have a mxd-d400 home deck that i use solely to transfer the audio out via s/pdif to my ibook. it's a pain having to have two separate pieces of equipment just to do something as simple as dumping digital audio onto my computer, especially since it's real-time only... but hey, it's the only solution. so i got excited when i heard about hi-md, and how they would add better recording times and bitrate quality... plus not to mention that they will show up as usb drives on my desktop. then i found out sony has yet AGAIN limited the functionality of their devices for absolutely no good reason. why oh why can't they just make it so the players mount as a usb drive and show me the damn audio files and let me just drag-and-drop onto the desktop to copy??? why do they insist on making us use a proprietary program which is not even available for macs? i mean, these are MY recordings, not some copyrighted material. i should just be able to copy them over, and not have to deal with some proprietary software limiting my ability to do so. ridiculous. i'd move to hi-md if i could just buy ONLY a portable, and use it to record AND get that recorded data onto my ibook... but sony purposefully makes this impossible! as it is, i can't afford to transition to a new portable and a home deck (which sony charges out the ass if they have optical outs). i'm not trying to start a flame... but this is just f-ing ridiculous. i seriously don't think i'm going to buy any sony products again, i keep getting screwed (especially as a mac user)... like the cd mavica i bought, the stupid cds don't work and i have to transfer photos via usb every time... dumb!!! what kind of company purposefully makes their products hard to use, limited in functionality, and incompatible? sony!!! the day that apple adds a line-in to the ipod, i'm dumping this stupid minidisc crap. it works fine, just not how it SHOULD if they actually want to cater to the NEEDS of their customers... my life would be so much easier if i could record into an ipod, because i know apple would make it easy and functional... sigh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vorlik Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 "The day Apple adds a line-in to the iPod" The iRiver H series (comes in 20gb and 40gb) has line/optical ports (Line-in and line-out). The Line-in also functions as a Mic-in. This seems to be what you're looking for. Oh yeah, and those features come standard on the H with no extra cost, and can record at a variety of mp3 bitrates, and WAV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Moving this to the correct forum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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