one of the days i was running a little late and i had to set the recorder up by my seat rather than stick it up in the front of the class near the professor.
recording time of 144 hours (i have not verified that claim yet) means you would probably run out of batteries before you would fill up the memory of the recorder.
i just wish olympus included the neck strap accessory with the recorder.there are other great points about this digital recorder, but i have run out of time.
it is a breeze to operate and after a quick look over the instructions, i was off and running!
it has a really good battery life and never seems to run out of space to record.
in that case, i really don't see a point in getting the more expensive ones unless you're the type that wants to listen to it on the run or must have the recordings with you.
it runs for about 8 hours off one aaa-battery.
you cant listen back on the internal speaker with any satisfaction, so for music, its essential that you run in thru some kind of power/speaker situation.
the single lithium battery has been running for ages, and downloading with the built-in usb plug is a snap.
you can recover the files if the battery runs down with your pc.overall i found it very useful for classroom and as a music player when used with headphones, i don't think you would be disappointed.
it will save you lots of money in the long run.
runs fine on nimh rechargables.
i just think the battery runs out too fast, u have to carry a spare everywhere u go, atleast u only need one battery, but in this day and age u shouldn't need any..
pro and contracts; be aware of the voice filter settings and the noise canceling option: as both tend to drain the battery; otherwise you'll run for nearly 8-10 hours on one aaa.
i purchased dragon naturallyspeaking 10 preferred and am running it on windows xp.
for meetings i have to take notes and i can safely place the recorder in my pocket and run the stereo microphone on the remote wire to my lapel and control the starts and stops from there.
it's run a few laps around my expectations already.
the ds-30 is recognized as plug-and-play by the pc (running xp sp2) with no software install needed.
speaking of wmv, transfer of files is a breeze on a pc running xp.
in this mode, the recorder can store up to 48 hours of voice recording and can run for up to 35 hours on 2 aaa batteries.
i also wanted something that did not require a degree in electronics to run.
i have run mine on an xp-pro machine, and checked to see that there was a sony update for vista 64-bit compatibility, which downloaded and installed just fine.
i did not try to get the software running under wine or an emulator.
and not at all compatible with machines running linux.
as it is in the stxq mode the battery runs out in 9.5 hrs.
in fact, since we bought this item, he hasn't run out of space yet and has not erased anything from the memory.
if the battery runs out during the recording of a file, the currently recorded file will be lost because the file header will be unable to close.
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