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Olympus WS-310M 512 MB Digital Voice Recorder and Music Player B000BJ0R4E Olympus Olympus WS-310M 512 MB Digital Voice Recorder and Music Player Electronics Nice little thing See video on Amazon.com I was a first a little hesitant about buying thus recorder since it recorded in WMA format. I personally don't like that format since I work with audio a lot (I like wav or mp3). But I couldn't find anything else that would record a long period of time that wasn't VERY expensive. So I just went with this. It worked great for what I have used it for:

College classes
Kidnapping a friend and taking him to his birthday party
A political conversation among friends.
Self-dictation
Band concert (tweeked in audio program and came out nicely)

It has two microphone sensitivities ( Dictation [low] and Conference[high]).
I have normally use it on the HQ stereo setting and I have been quite pleased with the stereo recording. For the more technological people - I have imported the files into a audio editing program and the wave images do appear in stereo. It also has a microphone jack that I have yet to try, but I know that Olympus sells a lapel microphone for it, but I am also going to try on of mine as well.

Durability: 4/5 - held up well unless I dropped it, then the USB cover came off
Ease of Use: 4/5 - Menu screens are fairly easy to navigate and the USM is "plug & play" it acts as an external hard drive.
Battery Life: 4/5
Sound Quality: 4/5
Portability: 5/5 Very lite.

Overall: 4/5

Also I didn't use the music player side of it...that's what my iPod is for. matticus "DREAM" May 21, 2007

Overall: 5
Overall: 5

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