For the first time today I’ve used my iRiver to store information other than sound files in MP3, WMA or
The iRiver, and I guess the iPod, is really just a portable hard disk drive with some added knobs and whistles, so… you can store data on it in any format you want.
I’ve been zipping round the internet finding track listings and reviews, and sticking them in the relevent album folders on my iRiver as word documents. Often I can grab the album cover, and sleeve notes, and I daresay eventually I could get the song lyrics.
Hey Martin - I knew it could do that, but I’ve never bothered because it would mean having to carry around my USB cable, and I’m not likely to hook my iRiver up to just any PC anyway.
But I’m getting a new iRiver soon!! My HP-120 has a problem with the play button on the remote, so it’s being replaced. But because the HP-120 is no longer in production, I’m getting a newer model. The new model has a colour screen and is good for viewing photos. I have no idea how that works, but I guess I’ll be able to actually view something - maybe that’s the next step for Word documents and stuff like that?
Moxy, let us know how the new one works out. I had a near-mare with mine, when within two weeks of getting the iRiver 140 I dropped the remote in a cup of tea. I figured water was less damaging than tea, so I flushed it out under a tap and dried it thoroughly, and luckily it worked fine.
I’m actually now closing rapidly on filling the 40GB drive, but Avanutria thinks I can save space by saving many of my voice tape files at lower quality. I’ve been recording as mp3 at 96k, but I could probably go smaller. Failing that, I’ll have to use my PC as a backup
Wow, you must have tonnes and tonnes of files then! My voice files are at 128K (sometimes, and other times I have no idea, but it’s smaller…) and I have loads of space left. At the Catskills last summer, I barely recorded 1G (probably more like 900M) over the whole week, and a lot of that was crap anyway so I got rid of the crap and it was even smaller.
But maybe you record more than I do… That’s probably the real explanation…
I’m getting the H320. It’s still 20G, but that’s plenty if you ask me (for me it is!). The new 40G is the H340. Same thing, just 20G more.
The iRiver is capable of displaying text files… so when I get phone number and addresses of people (like pipe teachers etc) via email or over the internet, I save em as text files. Put 'em in the TEXT folder of the iriver, and later, when I need to call someone, or can’t remember the title of that tune… voila: right there!
