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Lord Byron
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« on: 18:38:47, 08-02-2007 »
I keep toying with the idea of a dab radio, just so I can record stuff to a sd card, maybe a roberts radio, the pure is too big and the bug has tinny speakers.
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« Reply #1 on: 19:32:32, 08-02-2007 »
The speakers on the Bug are not bad for the size, and it has both optical digital and analogue line outs. It is also much cheaper. As to SD cards, the 2GB capacity ones can now be had for as little as £8 (plus p&p).

Currently listening to Monday's Po3 again (mostly mp2s saved on SD by a Bug, then tranferred to LapTop for editing with mp3DirectCut before burning, along with several hours worth of TTN broadcasts, to CD-R for playback on a "narita" DVD player I got from Safeways a couple of years ago. It plays mp2s and mp3s without problem, even identifying the mp2s as such on the video display. It will even fast forward mp2s, which most mp2 compatible DVD players I have come across will not).

The opening variations I had to grab from LA, :-(, and the first Op 5 sonata came from Freeview, via a free internet file transfer service, thanks to another contibutor. Shame they left out the Handel variations. Perhaps we will get them later, (or did the Graf copy fall apart during them? ;-) ).
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« Reply #2 on: 19:09:12, 10-02-2007 »
A somewhat different tack that might be worth considering is to use something like the Zoom H4 SD card based recording device to record FM directly to an mp3 (bitrate up to 320kbps selectable). The Zoom H4 has received a rather mixed reception, but most of the negative comments appear to be by folk who have not actually used the device. I got one recently, and while it does need to be treated with some care (it is no exactly ruggedized), and it does have some shortcomings in the area of monitoring of a recording in real time (there is a quiet bleeping in time with the flashing record indicator) playback does not suffer the same problem). There is no programmable timer facility, but who knows what the next generation will bring?

For a fairly comprehensive review from someone with much more experience of it than I yet have, see http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2007/02/01/review-zoom-h4-handy-recorder.html?page=3
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Lord Byron
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« Reply #3 on: 12:46:41, 13-02-2007 »
I like the roberts radio, the one with the big fat speaker, will wait until tis cheaper
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