Certainly that is the main use for an iPod, but most models actually can be used as recorders. Early versions were limited to a 8kHz (telephone quality) cap on recording, although you could get to 96kHz mono by installing iPod Linux.b0b wrote:You can run the output of your sound card into just about any tape or digital recorder. An iPod isn't a recorder, though. It's a digital music player. It accepts music files from the computer.
Starting in 2005 support for 44.1KHz (CD quality) stereo recording was added.