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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
