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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $120.88
You Save: $29.07 (19%)
New (24) Used (1) from $129.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 1.4 x 3.8
MPN: ICDUX80
Model: ICDUX80
UPC: 027242731622
EAN: 0027242731622
ASIN: B00142U4YA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Excellent for Recording Classes or Meetings April 6, 2008
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This Sony recorder is what I had been hoping for. I use it for recording my evening classes, two hours at a shot. The format is .mp3, so that Windows Media Player immediately starts playback with a mouse click, with no format conversion. The built-in USB connection makes it seem like a flash drive. The stereo sound is excellent. It uses a single AAA battery, rechargeable in my case. The control buttons are spread out, not "multi-tasked". The display is small, but still easy to interpret. The drag-and-drop provides a familiar way to copy or move the recorded files onto my computer.
 Does NOT Charge Battery (and Lousy User Interface) April 4, 2008
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
Contrary to the information in the user's manual on Sony's website as of this writing, the device does NOT charge rechargeable batteries through the USB connection. Apparently, this feature has been disabled; the user's manual supplied with the unit has had all mention of recharging deleted. So you are stuck either replacing batteries frequently or using an external charger (the non-rechargeable AAA battery supplied by Sony lasted about two weeks with very little use).
If you plan to use this device as a music player, or if you want to organize your recordings on the device, you should know that browsing by subfolders is not possible. For example, if you create folders of artist names, and if within each artist folder you create folders of album titles (into which you copy the mp3 song files), you will not see the artist folders when browsing -- you will only see the album title folders. This is the intended behavior, as confirmed by Sony technical support. Even though the directory structure (up to 4 levels) exists on the device, you are not allowed to see it or navigate it from the user interface; you only see one long list of folders.
Other gripes: takes too long to start recording (about 2 seconds); no automatic gain control setting; limited to 5 folders for recordings made using the device (and each of those folders can hold only 99 files -- could be a problem if you record frequent notes); no PCM recording; inability to browse or change settings while playing; firmware cannot be upgraded.
These deficiencies are disappointing since otherwise this unit could be a fantastic little recorder with its stereo mp3 capability and neat form factor.
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