Topic: Simple iRiver Question

[som]

I've been thinking of getting an iRiver H120 to replace my old D7. I found this on ebay:

http://tinyurl.com/3atrx5

Is this the same basic thing as an H120? Does the "20" in H120 just refer to the hard drive size? So this would effectively be an H110? I can Rockbox this and use it just like an H120?

I don't record a whole lot, so 10gb will be plenty of space, as long as it works.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[petur]

The h110 is also rockboxable (use the specific h100 build). The player only has 16MB ram (h120/h140 have 32MB) so time between disk spinups will be halved, so battery life may not be that great if recording lossless.

Other than that, the picture they show is wrong, it shows an h120....
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceChart has an overview of both players

I see the same seller is also offering several h140, I'd try my luck with one of those

SEE NOTE BELOW

[petur]

Note from one of our developers:

There shouldn't be a difference, but I don't know whether recording was tested on h110. There *might* be a problem with s/pdif recording (in case the recording code doesn't care for the reversed s/pdif enable polarity)

[som]

Thanks for the response.....+T

I will only be recording line-in, so the Rockbox warning should not effect me. And I'm looking for something cheap, so I think I'm going to pull the trigger on the 10gb. I'll post an ISO in the yard sale to see if anyone has a 120 to sell first.

[bonzo71]

I purchased the 10gb unit from this seller.  I've been testing it to get an idea of how long it can record 44.1/16 wav on one charge.  So far, the best I can get is around 4 hours 40 minutes with a full charge.  I was thinking about spending $20 to get a 2200mah battery, but decided to skip it since I've never needed to record much more than 3 hours. 

[petur]

My h340 managed about 12 hours last year. However, encoding has changed since then, but I also upgraded my battery so I can't do the test for stock battery again... 4 hours sounds little for me. Because it has only half the RAM, you get twice as many spinups which eats battery. Recording compressed should help a bit there...