Review on OM Digital Solutions WS-500 Digital Voice Recorder: Capturing Crisp Audio in Sleek Silver by David Guliford

This is a nice little voice recorder. It records in WMA format, which gives it a big advantage over the cheap SONY ICD-P520 I bought as a replacement; The SONY recorder just recorded in a weird custom format that required special software to read, which brings me to another benefit of the Olympus WS500, which is that files can be copied directly to a computer via Windows Explorer, and not special additional software security is not necessary. . It also has decent battery life. Overall a very good product, but it has one major disadvantage: the so-called "date stamp" on voice recordings is nothing more than the usual "creation date". for a file that is automatically overwritten once the file is copied to the computer. I had to spend quite a bit of time copying and pasting the "Creation Date" information for each file into the small "Comments" field in the file summary so I could find the date for each entry, except for the date , where I copied them to my computer.