However, a few months after making some amazing outdoor recordings of marching bands and other events this recorder started to stop recording after a few seconds and revert to pause.

I got this to record my buddy's band and it blew my mind how good and clean the recordings have come out

The little rubber feet on the back are a nice touch as they give a firm grip on a desktop when connecting to a PC.The only issue I have is I have to turn the gain right up for very quiet recordings (e.g. clock ticks) and this produces noise in the recoding, not really a failing of this unit

, I think I just need to source a good external mic for really quiet recordings.