Hi friends

I`m looking for a Mp3 Pplayer with good music recording capabilites (from a stereo source, mic or line-in).
I`m thinking of an hard-disk based one, but this feauture is not so publicized on the most players.

May Minidisc be a better solution?

The new iRivers (flash-based) have line-in and MP3 encoding. I think they have models carrying up to 1 GB of memory. Don't know if their HD players have line-in and MP3 encoding.

Minidisc works and works well. But, without a Minidisc deck it is impossible to move the files to your PC digitally. Without the digital transfer offerred in some decks the transfer must be done in analog through the line-in in real time. This is not a big deal. Most of the early CD's had an analog step in their mastering and there are many which sounded just great.

But, you should know this before you run out and buy a MD recorder. The upside: tiny machine, good sound. I love mine, a SONY MZ-N1. B)

Couldn't have said it better myself boojum! B)

iRiver iHP (hdd based) series have excellent recording capabilities, analog and optical in/outpout. You can record in wave format or any bitrate mp3 on the fly encoding.

My Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 offers digital and analog recording via line-in and mini-toslink ...

I download a lot of live recordings and I have some that are made using Nomad 3s. I haven't seen any with the iRiver. Also, don't minidisc recordings use lossy compression? Or do they have a lossless mode too?

Archos AV120 and AV3xx series are hdd based players that support mp3 recording. The AV3xx units are supposed to be especially good. [I have an Archos jbmm20 and it records quite well too, but these are now discontinued.]

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Neuros will record in from line, built-in mic, or FM. mp3 up to 160 kb/s, but also wav format up to 48 khz sample frequency. Newer firmware has level meters and control.

edit: As far as I know, all HD recorders if they record from built-in mic that will be mono, and there will be some mechanical noise from the hard drive on your recording, so get an external mic.

I'm looking for a mp3 recorder too. A cheap one, 128 MB and above, which (high quality) records mic in / line in to mp3 (about 80kbps)

I have heard about (but i do know much too less to recommend one)
- iRiver iHP 120 with HDD (which is quite expensive, I need 8 players)
- iRiver iFP 590
- Rip-Flash-Trio

does anybody knows one of them? or another one with a good line in / mic in and a good mp3 encoder (like lame )

thanks // .lu

the Neuros flash player has 128 MB. The last I knew they were selling for $100 at the web site. You can get it in combo with a hard drive, or add that later. It records line-in, internal mic, or from FM at up to 160 kb/s or wave file.