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I actually use an iRiver (a different model, though), for all of my street recording. In fact, I even put an external mic on it for the Dumbo recording, and iSm was holding it directly to his mouth (I'm pretty sure you can hear him say, "I'll hold it" a couple of seconds into the recording. Sorry kids, he was referring to the microphone). The big problem with that recording was the wind. I'm sure there's a setting on the iRiver to dampen that sound, but that would have required us to repeat the ride - and iSm's spontaneous narration was just too good to try and replicate.