- 4 Oct 2012
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I was thinking to make a "Boycott Sony" thread cause I am so sick of them. The latest problem is that my MD recorder died and I found that MD recorders are no longer being made. Wonderful tech. Killed by Sony as far as I can tell and they won't even let others make them. You want a brand new cassette recorder, tech of the 70s? No prob. You want far better tech of the 90s? You are SOL.
So anyhoo, I was looking for solutions on how I am going to record music so as to have music in a my car. Driving is just not any fun without fresh music. This means a few very important requirements.
1) not so expensive. It cannot be something that will really be a loss if it gets fried in the heat of my car or stolen. In fact, it just cannot be attractive to thieves. I usually go with old/used options.
2) It must be powered by a non-proprietary battery ( once those die you can be in for a major expense).
3) Must be solid state to use less battery power. (in other words, not use a disc drive.)
4) Must use removable SD cards. I don't want to be erasing and rewriting all the time cause the internal storage is full. That is BS. Just the recording and conversion process already takes too much time.
5) Must be able to record without hassles. (need an adapter just to plug in an audio jack? Get outta town!)
Those ruled out Ipods and other music players I saw at Yamada Denki. Those had a nice screen interface, but totally failed my basic requirements.
So I started looking at IC recorders. Sony has a lot available, but I refuse to buy Sony new if at all possible. That left Panasonic and Olympus. I ended up getting a Panasonic RRXS455. It cost about 9000 yen.
The screen is crap. It looks like a miniaturized plasma screen from the 70s. Its just text and symbols. Its rather small. Also there are folders in there for microphone recordings and such, and I am not sure if its safe to remove them. They are in the way. Anyway, all this means navigation is not so easy.
Plus side is though, it records very well. And it records straight to mp3, a technology I did not know was available yet. Also, you can do minor editing while still in mp3 format. Those save me a lot of time. Right now, I am recording my MDs directly to the player in mp3.
Also, it connects directly to a computer via a retractable USB plug. So no fooling with wires and no proprietary nonsense. Its taken me a bit to figure where folders need to go and how they need to be, but now that I have it its not so bad (for example spaces are not allowed. Anything written with a space is not detected). Also its taken time to figure out where things out and just how to accomplish certain tasks. I am not going to say the thing is user friendly. Its a learning curve. But now that I got it, things should go smoothly. (God MD was so freaking easy to use though!)
So, anyone else doing this or considered doing this? What do you have? What are the ups and downs?
If you are looking for an alternative music player, and are not chicken of tech, you might consider this. I would be happy to answer any questions you have if I can, even if you buy from those jerks at Sony!
So anyhoo, I was looking for solutions on how I am going to record music so as to have music in a my car. Driving is just not any fun without fresh music. This means a few very important requirements.
1) not so expensive. It cannot be something that will really be a loss if it gets fried in the heat of my car or stolen. In fact, it just cannot be attractive to thieves. I usually go with old/used options.
2) It must be powered by a non-proprietary battery ( once those die you can be in for a major expense).
3) Must be solid state to use less battery power. (in other words, not use a disc drive.)
4) Must use removable SD cards. I don't want to be erasing and rewriting all the time cause the internal storage is full. That is BS. Just the recording and conversion process already takes too much time.
5) Must be able to record without hassles. (need an adapter just to plug in an audio jack? Get outta town!)
Those ruled out Ipods and other music players I saw at Yamada Denki. Those had a nice screen interface, but totally failed my basic requirements.
So I started looking at IC recorders. Sony has a lot available, but I refuse to buy Sony new if at all possible. That left Panasonic and Olympus. I ended up getting a Panasonic RRXS455. It cost about 9000 yen.
The screen is crap. It looks like a miniaturized plasma screen from the 70s. Its just text and symbols. Its rather small. Also there are folders in there for microphone recordings and such, and I am not sure if its safe to remove them. They are in the way. Anyway, all this means navigation is not so easy.
Plus side is though, it records very well. And it records straight to mp3, a technology I did not know was available yet. Also, you can do minor editing while still in mp3 format. Those save me a lot of time. Right now, I am recording my MDs directly to the player in mp3.
Also, it connects directly to a computer via a retractable USB plug. So no fooling with wires and no proprietary nonsense. Its taken me a bit to figure where folders need to go and how they need to be, but now that I have it its not so bad (for example spaces are not allowed. Anything written with a space is not detected). Also its taken time to figure out where things out and just how to accomplish certain tasks. I am not going to say the thing is user friendly. Its a learning curve. But now that I got it, things should go smoothly. (God MD was so freaking easy to use though!)
So, anyone else doing this or considered doing this? What do you have? What are the ups and downs?
If you are looking for an alternative music player, and are not chicken of tech, you might consider this. I would be happy to answer any questions you have if I can, even if you buy from those jerks at Sony!