Recommend me your best

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by onauc, Apr 23, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I am not much of an expert in home electronics and I was wondering if you can be just a little kind to recommend me the right product for my needs.

    You see, I was actually looking for a voice recorder so I can record dictates. I was searching for "audio bugs" because they are small, light and secretive and may become handy one day but then I came across "pen hard-drives" and "mp3 players-recorders" and I thought the latter is better because not only can I record voices but listen to music too downloaded from the internet via my pc.
    This is even better for me.

    Anyway, now I have come across "mp3 players-recorders" that have their own "internal radio" so now I can listen to music from the radio and record them too aswell as record voices and download music from the internet via my pc !
    Recently, I have come across Ipods on ebay and quite frankly I don't understand the difference between the Ipod and an mp3 player-recorder.
    I don't have Apple Macintosh but a regular PC running Windows OS.

    So may I tell you what I want and you can kindly recomend me the BARGAIN best for my needs ?
    I want a small gadget that will:

    * allow me to download music to it from my PC's
    hard-drive and/or CD
    (I want to listen to music and audio files downloaded
    from the internet)
    * play music and audio files from it's internal
    hard-drive/memory
    * plays mp3 (better if it plays any other formats too
    such as wma)
    * play radio (so I can listen to the radio when I am
    out on the streets and don't have access to my car
    radio or home radio or walkman)
    * records voices and sounds near it (via built-in
    michrophone so I don't have to attach a michrophone
    and speak into it unless I want to attach such)
    * records music/voice direct from it's own radio system
    * let me attach ear-peace (so I can listen to things
    with-out distrubing others near me)
    * has replace-able or 'built-in internal"
    battery that is rechargeable (so I don't have to
    spend money buying batteries every so often when
    batteries run-out of charge)
    * is small, light-weight (suitable to reside in shirt
    pocket or cling to shirt-collar)
    * look "un-notice-able" (secretive) so I can secretly
    record conversations with persons whom I engage in
    conversations.

    Please recommend me a low cost, bargain gadget and then recommend me a brand and model on that gadget.
    I don't know what this gadget should be (Ipod, Mp3-player-recorder, pen-hdd, anything else which I never heard of, etc.).

    Thank You
     
    onauc, Apr 23, 2005 IP