Podcastplayer.org news

At last, a detailled and informative guide to recording podcasts on an iRiver MP3 player/recorder. I’ve been puzzling recently over how some people seem to be able to just connect a microphone to their MP3 player and record stuff, where I can’t seem to get things working without a separate (and relatively bulky) pre-amp or mixer.

Looks like the iRiver 700 series contains a tiny pre-amp, and deep in the configurations, you can manually set the input jack to act as “line in” or “mic in". I haven’t found such a config in my EZAV player yet, so I assume mine always acts as “line in".

Just a shame that the config and recording process on the iRiver is so fiddly. On mine its as simple as press the dedicated record button to start, press it again to stop. It autodetects line-in or the built-in mic, records high-bit-rate stereo from line-in, and lower-rate mono from the built-in mic, and records without complaint until the drive is full.

Read more at: Geekfishing Blog: iRiver iFP-799 Recording