I bought this for my wife to record thoughts in the car and in the middle of the night. At about the same time she figured out how to make it work (two days) it stopped functioning. I fiddled with the battery contacts and got it to go it bit more. We then replaced batteries. Finally, after about 2 weeks, the thing stopped functioning all together. Even when it did function properly the sound quality was so bad it was almost unintelligible. It is not expensive enough to justify the hassle of a return, so I remain a very unhappy customer. I think Sony is now making so many products they have forgotten about quality. This was a major disappointment.