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The Zen Touch Micro & The iRiver H10, I little help please

Jun 17, 2005 4:23PM PDT

-I've done a bunch of reading and i've come down to either deciding on the Creative Zen Touch Micro, or the iRiver H10.

What i like about both is that they both have a decent battery life and it is replaceable. As well as having a built in voice recorder.

Before I go on let me say that I don't care if I can read text or view pictures on it (H10) that's not a deiciding factor.

-So what i'm looking for is some advice on which of the two to get. As far as i can tell they are incredibly similar (even the vertical touch pads) in everything that matters to me.

What would be the sinker for me though, if anyone can actually tell me. Is if one of these has a better recording abilities than the other. I've heard alot about how good iRiver's reocordings are, but almost nothing (good/bad) about the creative. So if anyone knows, that would definetly help me deicde.
Reason being as I would use this above all to record my lectures (worst case scenario, large lecture hall).

Thanks in advance.

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Jun 19, 2005 1:49PM PDT

Alright, let me refine my question. Which of these two players has better recording quality? Or are they about the same. Also on different reviews it says different things, which, if any, of these two players support drag-and-drop. Just plug it in and move stuff.

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trying to help
Jun 21, 2005 3:12PM PDT

I am surprised you are looking at these when there are so many dedicated recorders to look at including minidisc. Zen Micro and H10 add recording as a neat little feature but their main purpose is to play compressed music; not record lectures.

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thanks
Jun 22, 2005 4:46PM PDT

Thanks, I didn't think of that. I guess I could just get a digital voice recorder and then any mp3 player I want will do.

Know anything about the Panasonic RR-US380? haha