I purchased this to record my college classes. When I received the item all I had to do was simply plug it into my ipod, and it immediately recognized it and pulled up the menu for voice memos. It's so easy to set up and record! Once I am at home and want to review my notes I find it in the menu organized by date and time and press play. It's that easy. There's only one thing that I don't like about it. There is some strange mechanical sound that can be heard during the recordings. I thought it might be some power saving option that the ipod itself is doing, so I have experiemented with several settings and have not figured out how to make it go away. It is not during the entire recording, it comes up in cycles, but you can still hear the recordings. However the lectures are picked up loud and clear in stereo with very little outside noise. I would recommend this product.