Hi Dara, Are you intending to keep all your interviews on the digital recorder or are you going to transfer them to your computer (I assume the latter)? Olympus DM-1 is a pretty good choice: http://cf.olympus-europa.com/consumer/voice/intro.cfm?id=DM-1 You can record up to 22 hours between downloads downloading is a cinch and you can index it afterwards by importing it into something like AnnoTape http://www.annotape.com/ If you need hold more than 22 hours, I suggest a mini disc and a bunch of discs! Cheers, Chris > > From: Dora Acherman-Chor <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: qual-software <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:46:50 -0400 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: digital recording equipment > > I need to buy a recording device for interviews for a project. I would like to > know if anyone has any experience with using digital voice recorders (with IC > chips or memory sticks) and downloading files with a USB connection. > All the recorders I have seen on the market seem to transform the files into > WAV files, and I am afraid that long interviews will become extremely big > files, taking up too much memory and download time. > Any suggestions? > > Dora Acherman > Florida International University >