and I maintain that 96k mp3, for Podcasting use, is just fine. Yes it's not the greatest. Yes, it's not perfect. But hundreds of Podcasters, blind and sighted are using these things and I've read many of the podcasting forums, and not one single person has complained about sucky audio quality. You have to think about where your audience is listening to these recordings. Lots of them are on busses, trains and other forms of transportation. With the outside noise, do you really think people are gonna say oh! listen, he's sounding awful, he's got problems with his low frequency range! or, man he doesn't have a lot of highs in there. If you're listening on a big expensive stereo system then yes, you'll notice that, especially if your ear is trained to pick up those problems. Now, to answer TJ's questions on recording. This baby is menu driven. I've got the IFP-899, and getting to the voice recorder is quite simple. Most likely when you turn it on you'll land in the mp3 player. If you hold the iriver facing you, you'll see 3 buttons on it, and a little joystick type of thing on the underside of the unit more towards the right.
So to bring up the menu, you would find the third button to the right and hold it down for about 5 seconds. Maybe even less than that, but we'll use 5 seconds as a good round number. Now the menu should be up. Next find the joystick, and if your 799 is anything like the 899, you'll need to press the joystick to the right 2 times. Once to get to the fm tuner, not sure if the 799 has that? and then once again to land in the voice recorder. In order to set the recording options, you will need some form of sighted help, because initially, it's set to 32k, 2250 hertz mono. and that *really* does lose. So if you can set that up, i think you could produce some *reasonable* recordings. At 04:27 PM 10/31/2005, you wrote: >Oy TJ! Surprised to see you here. Listen man, IFP-series, not worth your >time. Podcasters on the Blindcasting list disagree with me, but the fact >that it can only record in 96 K MP3 is the lose. Sorry, bad. >Thanks, >Nick >----- Original Message ----- >From: "tj Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:57 PM >Subject: Re: ifp 999 > > > > wait the one i got was 1 gig, > > it is the 799 i'm very sorry > > > > anyway what luck have people had with it > > i'm particularly interested in recording with it > > > > tj > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:34 PM > > Subject: RE: ifp 999 > > > > > > > The 999 does not look any different from what I could tell from the 799 >or > > > 899, but it has a color screen. At least that is the only difference I > > > could tell, oh and the price was $300 > > > > > > I was tempted to try it, but found a 799 for under $140 so went that >rout > > > for now. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: TJ Olsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:24 AM > > > To: PC audio discussion list. > > > Subject: ifp 999 > > > > > > Hi > > > does anyone hear have any experience with irivers 1 g8ig playera the >999? > > > how accessible is it? can somoene help me learn it? > > > > > > tj > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > > > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > > > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: >10/21/2005 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we >offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we >offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
