These are certainly the way to go now. I have a cabinet full of my Dad's various approaches to recording at his music sessions. They're all analog, however, so I have to figure out how to convert tapes to digital to CD. If he were alive today, he'd be using the digital devices, I have no doubt. (He LOVED gadgets!) Sounds like you found a nice one, Mark. (My daughter had that kind of in-line remote you mention on her CD player and loved it, but it finally wore out and she had to go back to using the buttons on the player itself.)

I've been dabbling at converting Dad's tapes, with mixed results. Meanwhile, I could start a museum with all of the high-end and (in their day) very useful but now out-of-date devices and peripherals.

SRS