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Floating Down the iRiver (Um, And Um. . . .)

This is my second 'cast'. I doubt it is going to have any universal appeal. The main audio is from 6/25/05. On the drive to an R/C airplane show, I chat up the iriver iFP-899 some more, including a near-meltdown I was able to recover from. The little iriver really does wonders in a noisy environment, though the road noise DOES get a bit tiring.

The firmware I use on the iriver, as discussed in the recording, is UMS 1.28, which still seems to be the most recent.

Don't adjust your player, the wonk a few minutes in is all in the audio as recorded. I fixed most of it, but decided to leave one bit 'whacked' as an example. I know it prolongs the recording, so feel free to skip ahead, or if you're listening on an iriver, boost the playback speed and it'll sound normal again. For future reference, slow recordings need to be bosted about 15%, and audacity did a fine job with this.

"Oh crap!"

The main point is that I explain how I recovered from an apparently corrupt filesystem on the player. Weee!

If anyone's interested, I got to the R/C shindig around 10:35, so I made good time and didn't even really speed. It turned out it wasn't so much an 'airshow,' but there were a few cool demonstrations on combat flying and a super-sick Yak that could hang vertically on its prop. Watch this space for photos. It was cool hanging out with Drew some more, though I missed meeting Dawn as she was out of town yet again. Maybe next time.

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Here be the MP3.