Stupid Questions about line in recording (IFP79x 89x)

[trip_out]

Hi there,

I was just looking at the IFP 7 & 8 series to do some cheap line inrecording, however the info I seem to have gathered from this forum seems to sugest either I have to suffer low quality encoding or non transferable files. Is this really true? Are there no ways around it? BTW - I live in the UK so will have whatever firmware is over here.

If this is the case do I have any alternatives (including other brands) for 192-320Kbps recording? Does the 9 series have the same problem?

Thanks.

[okieme]

My 795 will record line in up to 320kbps using v1.25 firmware. Upgrade(?) to v1.28 ums firmware will only allow up to 96kbps. I can record off sat. radio at 192kbps for a few hours and playback is quite good. You are able to transfer your line in recordings to pc using the music manager software.

Hope this helps.

[trip_out]

thanks for the info. looks like i'll be after v1.25 firmware then.

[RickH]

Let me give you an example of the sort of thing you can do with the 795 (or other players in the series): I recorded in-line from my Denon CD changer. I then transferred those "Record" files to my computer and converted them into MP3 files, then back to the IFP795 so I could play them on shuffle. I liked these tracks and decided to make a cd-r from them, so back to the computer I went and I dumped these files to my hard drive and had to convert them a second time, for some reason. I then burned a cd-r from these converted/re-converted files...listening to it now, sounds surprisingly good. I guess that's more info than you needed but it just shows how much you can do with the little IFP's.

[moonsparrow]

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I didn't see any point in starting a new one. I'm new to line-in recording, but I bought a CD the other day that my CDR drive can't read, and my sound card is stupid and will only record one channel. How does one go about converting .rec files to MP3? Can I do this with iRiver Music Manager, dbPowerAmp, Audiograbber, or will it require some other program?

[Rotareneg]

I'll assume you're using the IMM firmware to record since the UMM one has the absurd 96 kbit/s limit. Just drag the .rec file to the destination folder with IMM and it should automaticly open the conversion window when it's done transfering. You can also just rename the file extension to .mp3, the ".rec" files are really just mp3s anyway.