Digital Voice Recorders/iRiver T30
A report and a request for advice:
After doing some research, I decided to buy an iRiver T30 for use as a
small digital voice recorder for meetings, interviews, and so on. It's a
very cool little device and the sound quality is also amazing.
However, as far as I can tell, it doesn't work at all under linux. It
shows up in /proc/bus/usb/devices:
T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=03 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 12 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=4102 ProdID=1119 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=iriver Limited
S: Product=iriver T30
S: SerialNumber=
but doesn't load any usb drivers. The website (and the brain-dead user
support person) says it works only under Windows XP. Connecting it to a
Windows box shows it as an "MTP Media Player", suggesting that it is not
in fact in UMS mode where it would work as mass storage.
I am now planning on just returning the things and getting a different
one, unless someone can provide a good solution.
That returns me, though, to the search for a suitable voice recorder that
is useable with linux. Specifically, my ideal model would:
- Have long (8+ hours) battery life;
- Record in a linux-friendly format (not, e.g., Olympus's DSS format);
- Have removeable flash media, like an SD or xD card; and
- Record at least 8 hours or so in mono, long-play mode.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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