(Has anybody here had any experience with Archos MP3 units? Are they as good as they look on paper?)
Anyway, I just did something foolhardy; I've now ordered an Archos Jukebox Recorder. More details when I get it (in a week or so).
My credit card won't thank me for this.
i owned an early archos jukebox for about 3 minutes. it promptly broke leaving me with a very interesting turn-around-and-go-back-to-the-store experience. my general feeling was that the archos product seemed to be made out of stuff someone found. hopefully your experience is better. good luck and stuff.
I got a Archos Jukebox Recorder for cheap cheap from an Amazon Gold Box deal. Love it. It is rather large, but in my bag, I don't really notice. I'd guess I get about 8 to 10 hours of use on a charge. The Rockbox 'firmware' can be a little wonky with battery charging, but overall it's very nice. With a USB2 card, transfers are pretty speedy, too.
I haven't used the recording capability other than just seeing if it actually worked. (It did. :)
Hope you enjoy your new toy. It's my last one for a while.
My Nokia 5510 phone, which has a built in mp3 player / radio, also has the ability to record to the phone's memory - either from the radio or from a microphone. The downside - only 64mb of memory, so you could hardly record the whole gig, and the recorded audio is in a DRM format (why on earth?!) so you've got to take it off the phone by analogue cable.