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Summary: EXCELLENT BUT... HOW DO YOU COMPRESS THE MP3'S???
Review: This tiny, lightweight, and sleek mp3 is simply excellent. Sound is good, could do with being a little louder, but still great AND IT IS SO EASY TO SETUP AND USE!!!!
However, Ken Woomer was saying below you can compress the mp3's up to 30%. Question is, HOW? I really need to shrink them and also does the Ripflash take 512mb smart media cards to expand the memory. If so, where can they be purchased?
Someone please answer it would be so much help to me (preferably the Woomer guy).
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Summary: good recording for your band, ensemble or live music
Review: Back a couple of years ago one of the only ways to digitally record was with the Sony MD recorder. To get good sound you needed to get a good microphone. It had a downside in that it was all proprietery format, you couldn' get the digital signal out to .wav or .mp3 so you took your nice digital recording and sent it into your computer through the analog line in to turn it back to digital. ughMy hope that you could easily record to .mp3 has been realized by this great little Pogo player. For quality recording you need a preamplified mic so I got this strange looking mike from soundprofessionals.com
Item: SP-BOOSTER-1
Price: $79.00
Description: SOUND PROFESSIONALS PREAMPLIFIED STEREO MICROPHONE
This was a present for my trombone playing son. Recording is absolutly effortless. You just press the record button and it starts a new track after whatever is currently on the player at the default rate of 128 whatever. (you can easily change the bit rate up to 320 kBits/s). The sound with this combination is sweet, and full, better than the sony and so much easier to use. Being encode in MP3 it is much slimmer than those piggy .wav files. If you convert the mp3 to .wav and burn an audio CD it still sounds great. Software installed fine on xp, the accessory ripping program is pretty cool in that it quickly finds the song titles in that freeDB internet database even for obscure latin jazz CD's. Perhaps this is standard fare but for me it was new. The transfer could always be faster, instantaneous would be good. Its probably a function of the USB 1.1 pipe width. so I gues an improvement would be USB 2 support. But I don't really know what I am talking about or what version of USB it actually is.
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Summary: RipFlash Plus just what I wanted
Review: Received the Ripflash Plus recently, and had no problems loading software, ripping CD's, or downloading music. The manual should be edited by someone whose primary language is English, but, even though the manual is a bit cryptic, I was still able to find out what I needed to know. I am quite happy with the purchase.
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Summary: a review of the two main types of MP3 players Hardrive/Flash
Review: Okay. Here is a write up, that I did, on the comparisons/contrasts on MP3 players. Mainly, the Harddrive versions (I.E. Rio Riot/Apple IPOD -both of which I own) and the flash memory type... (I.E. Memorex 3642 Mp3 Player, of which I own as well).
What prompted this little jaunt (of which you may send to as many people as you like) My (expensive) Apple IPOD died during a sync last month. Just me copying files over to it, and the battery ran out of juice. I would have not attempted to copy music had I known the battery was low, but the battery read FULL STRENGTH. Anyhoo, I called Apple, they said return it for maintenance.
I did. Sent it back.
They returned it, still broke. To my suprise, there is only a TEN DAY return policy. TEN DAYS. I did not realize this at all... and will not ever buy another apple product. So, after a month or so of messing around trying to find another MP3 player... I decided to go with a flash memory MP3 player, the ones that use memory sticks. SO, here are the pro and cons of these devices. Pro's for the Memory Stick Mp3 players -Cheaper. WAY CHEAPER than Hard drive types. -If you go into music match and file convert to MP3 Pro and shrink the size of your MP3 to like, say 3o percent... you can really make a good Kompression. Example. My Memorex MP3 player has 32mbs of memory on board. It is expandable to 256mb. 32 mb will basically let you put one cd's worth of music. It is easy to put music on and off of them, due to your computer reading the USB as just another hard drive, so you drag and drop to put on, delete them to take them off. But, after you shrink your files to MP3 Pro 30 percent, you can put twice as many. So, basically a 256mb chip will allow me to put 208 songs on my little less than palm size MP3 player. And it wieghs like 3 ounces. - More on memory. These little chips are the size of the upper part of your thumb, at least my thumb anyway. They come in 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and even though there aren't any MP3 machines out there to handle them YET, you can even buy a 1.5gig thumb size chip thingy. Considering the size of the chips and the shrinking kompression I told you about earlier, I could shrink my whole KOLLEKTION down to 10 of those 1.5gig chips. At the current shrink rate I am at 5 DVD's, which are way bigger and more fragile than these little chips. - Not as fragile as hard drive type. You can drop one of these chips and not scratch it. I wouldn't stomp on one with my foot, nor get one in water, but they are encased in plastic. Ruggedish. - Batteries last for like two days. There isn't much going on here, no moving parts, no laser or hard drive to put power to. Most of these flash Memory types have a single AA battery. I use a rechargeable type, so we are talking very low cost here.
In comparison to the hard drive types, where you will get a solid 8 hours of playing, this really whupps up. - Size. Small. Very small. Mine is three inches by three inches. A square. But, you can get smaller ones. And the memory chips that go in them are the same ones you use for your camera. And you can put files on them. If you want to put a word doc on your memory chip, you can. Your Mp3 won't recognize it, but it is nifty storage. COMPARISON/CONTRAST - Size does matter. In the case of hard drive Mp3 players... lets face it, you can, if you so chose to, put a library of congress on these monsters. They are the caddilacs of the hand held devices, and guzzle batteries like gasoline. But when it comes down to it, size is the only thing they have going for them. I don't mean to downplay the hard drive types, but don't drop them, don't shake them, and after shelling out $499 to Apple you might consider insurance. Apple doesn't care about you or your apple after 10 days of ownership. - Price/Komparison. IPOD ran me $499 bucks. My memorex MP3 player ran me 45 dollars. The 128 memory chip runs you 50 bucks. Owch. There really isn't a comparison to the two. The memory stick Mp3 players just kick ? on this issue. And, you get MORE than a ten day return policy, since you buy these things at Target/Wal Mart etc... So, that is my review in a nutshell
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Summary: How to make a dead RipFlash working
Review: I had a horror day trying to upgrade my RipFlash firmware! When the upgrade process was still on the go, I pluged off the USB cable, and the player become completetly dead. This was my own fault, obviously. But how to repaire it? You will never find any soulution in your manual. I found some instructions in the Internet, and here they are:
Push two buttons at once: "Pause" and "Stop" (one is above another, do it for a longer while) and later plug yor player to your PC through USB cable.
Now your PC is able to recognize your player and you can upgrade its firmware for good.
Besides, the RipFlash Plyer is nearly perfect. The manufacturer have to prepare a better manual. The "line in" port is very silent, what is another pitty. But internal "mic" works fine, manufacturing is very solid and nice, nad plying preformance too.
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Summary: Drivers don't software wont and in general a bad time
Review: Advice - find another product to buy. Installing the drivers - turns Windows into plug and pray. The bundled software stinks - comprehensively. The support, if it can be called such, is no USEFUL support at all. The player has sat for 95% of its life as a paperweight. I only wish I could give this a MINUS STARS RATING. If I had a nickel every error message it displayed I could afford another player too.
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Summary: Attn. students and conference organizers
Review: This is the second ripflash in our family and the first ripflash plus. The plus has everything that I found missing in the original ripflash. The built-in microphone has near recording studio quality and transfering files is easy. I installed the software on two different Win XP computers without a hitch, first time around. If you are listening to a long lecture and turn off the player, it can go back to where you left off. I get about nine hours of recording per 128M, and it uses rechargeable batteries very well. Having mp3 files ready right after a lecture is great for distributing it on CDs or over the Web. It is small and light. Customer support has been good. I use it almost every day and really haven't had any headaches.
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Summary: new series with very BAD voice recorder !!!
Review: I bought recently Rip Flash Plus MP3player/recorder from Amazon.
Unfortunately I had to return that.
The voice recording quality was awfull ! During recording in silence there was "tut,tut,tur,tur, sound or something like that. Completly USELESS !
When I bought another Rip Flash Plus also from Amazon but few month ago it was excellent !!
I notice that this recent series (I bought three, and I had to return all of them !) differ from one which I previously bought by white cover on USB port. (My "old" one has black).
Maybe it is from different manufacterer ??
However, on all of them (old an new) there is written "made in Korea".
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Summary: Do not buy this! ! !
Review: This digital recorder worked good for one month. Then, it progressively became more and more unreliable. Now two months after purchase and it is completely useless. Plus the software never worked from the beginning. So, there was no way to use it with my computer even though it supposedly worked with my computer software.
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Summary: XP driver problem finally fixed.
Review: goto www.pogoproducts.com web site download lastest firmware (version 2.38) and MP3 Manager (version 3.00.01) 1. It won't ask for "new device found" every time you plug in to USB.
2. whenever back light is lit, I used to hear nasty static noice, but it's gone now. (However, It still gets recorded during recording phase)
3. volumn seem to be louder.
4. EQ settings seem better balanced and sounds much more comfortable than before. It seem little late this update came months after the purchase but I'm happy they are still working on improving older model. Great product. One of the smallest player with long lasting battery. note: I removed ripflash logo with nail polish remover.. looks much better with all silver and black finish with no color.
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