Dearly Departed
Those that know me well know that there is one device in my possession that I hold high above all others – namely, my iRiver iHP-120 (renamed to the H100 later). When I purchased it in the Summer of 2004, it was one of the few products that had the features that I desperately sought in a portable audio device (PAD™). Roughly in order of priority, they are:
- Ability to record to an uncompressed or losslessly-compressed format with reasonable quality
- USB mass storage-class device (for drag-and-drop between the device and any computer with a USB port)
- Ability to play, at least, MP3 as well Ogg Vorbis-formatted files
- Reasonable amount of storage capacity
