Alright fellow musicains!
Yes, that is the only thing that is keeping me from an iPod too. Recording. (my shuffle is pretty nice though. don't knock the unscreen till you've tried it). The problem isn't that the 1/8" jack can't be used for recording. It can, and you don't really loose anything going from 1/4 to 1/8. The problem is that apple cripples the audio recording down to really [email protected] quality. iPods can record 'voice recorder quality'. My understanding is that they're afraid they'll be used to bootleg concerts, but that makes no sense since you can buy MD recorder if you want to do that. Same basic size. But if I could have my music library AND record decent audio on the go......then I'd shell out the dough.
4 Wishes for the gen 5 iPod