Comments on Father’s Day: Losing Kids and Music Hardware

By: Jeff Licquia

2005-08-08T17:03:22Z

By: Jeff Licquia

2005-06-24T23:21:20Z

Well, I’ve got some more results.

It turns out that my player does have the bug mentioned on the Xiph wiki. Files encoded with a certain version of the encoder (all on the same day, for me) cause the player to crash. So far, re-encoding solves the problem for me.

I’ve also tried out the voice recorder. It seems to record from a distance (arm’s length) OK, though I don’t know about a lecture hall or classroom. Given that these are WAV files, you might need more than 256 MB to record longer lectures. Other models go up to 1 GB, which might be better.

By: Jeff Licquia

2005-06-21T06:23:15Z

Oh, one more thing: the player can record MP3 from the radio or line in, but evidently not via the voice recorder. Those are uncompressed WAV files, which should give you a pretty good idea regarding how much voice can be recorded.

By: Jeff Licquia

2005-06-21T06:20:54Z

I can confirm that mine plays Ogg Vorbis files, as I have been playing nothing else since I got it. The player comes with two MP3 sample files preloaded; as far as I can tell, support is identical for the two file types, including even tag support.

Check the packaging; it should say Ogg on it. Also, see the Xiph Wiki.

And yes, it does work well with Debian sarge. From my computer’s point of view, the player is just like a flash drive. It even automounts with pmount/hal/nautilus.

I haven’t had a chance to play with the voice recording function, so I can’t help you there. If I get a chance, I’ll follow up in these comments.

By: Devlin

2005-06-21T04:42:09Z

I’ve been looking recently for a mp3/voice recorder and came across a review of the YP-MT6V at CoolTechZone (http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1437&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=2). The review claimed the YP-MT6V did not play Ogg Vorbis, but you said in your post that it did. I just wanted to confirm that this player does indeed support Ogg Vorbis. This is my first time at your blog, I saw some other posts regarding Debian– so does this mean that the player also works well on Linux?

Last question, I’m still a college student and the primary reason I am looking into purchasing a player is to record some of my class lectures. In your opinion, is the microphone good enough for this? Have you played around with how long it can record?

Thanks,
— Devlin