e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[lickily]

Not sure where you are making that judgement from. My impression from the "write-back" name that they've given the feature, is that the music is temporarily stored in some kind of volatile memory cache before you can decide whether or not to permanently keep it.

If so, my feeling would be that there wouldn't be a need for real time encoding features that would certainly limit the available audio quality.