Recording with the iRiver H140 for the technologically moronic...

[sunnyco]

I bought my son's MP3 player from him, and he has installed Rockbox.  I bought it to record my classes, because my Govt prof. talks so fast I can't keep up.  I thought this would be easy...

I think I understand most of the features in the "recording" section of the instructions, but I can't figure out how to record!  I got the recording screen, and the bars are moving, which makes it look like it is recording.  I don't know how much room I need to leave on here for an hour and 20 minute class, how I see how much space is available on the recorder.  What button to press to start recording at the beginning of the class (I am not even sure how I got it started last time.  And then, once the recording has taken place, where do I go to listen to it?

I need simple instructions.  Pretend you are explaining it to a 4 year old, or a dog.  

[bluebrother]

I don't know how much room I need to leave on here for an hour and 20 minute class, how I see how much space is available on the recorder.

This depends on the selected encoding settings. With WAV (which is uncompressed) you need about 10MiB / minute. MP3 usually gets aroung 1/10th of this (but this also depends on the settings for the mp3 encoder).

What button to press to start recording at the beginning of the class (I am not even sure how I got it started last time.  And then, once the recording has taken place, where do I go to listen to it?

Use the "Rec" button. You can see the current status in the status bar. And for listening, it's a simple audio file (which gets placed in the folder "/recordings" per default) you can play like any other file on the player. If you have trouble with playing files please have a look at the manual, it describes the various ways. Please note that recorded files don't have metadata present, so unless you add them manually they will show up as "untagged" in the database view. But for recording I'd suggest using the file view anyway.

Pretend you are explaining it to a 4 year old, or a dog.  

Are you sure a dog would be able pressing the buttons?

[sunnyco]

I do have it set for Mp3, so I guess I need to change that.

I just turned it on and pressed the record button.  Nothing.  It was on a screen for music.  (I just learned that my son likes AC DC.)  Do I need to be somewhere else?

[petur]

I suggest you download and read our fine manual (http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h100.pdf), chapter 5.8 may be of interest to you (it deals with recording), and also chapter 8 (recording settings) may be worth visiting.

For lectures I suggest you set the recording format to mp3, 128kbps.

Do look at the screen when pushing buttons, rockbox gives status info in the status bar (topmost line of the display). Also, when recording, you should see the time and byte counters change...

Have fun and welcome to RockBox

[Davide-NYC]

If your rockbox build is older than a month or so you should update it.  There are some serious underlying changes that occurred recently as well as some user interface stuff.

I am willing to help you with this once you've read the relevant sections in the manual. PM me.
I use my H1x0 player for exactly this sort of thing on a daily basis.

Davide-NYC

[sunnyco]

I'll read the manual this weekend.  Thanks!