MuVo N200: recording fidelity and bit-rate for podcasts

Hi,
My plan is to use my MuVo N200 for recording podcasts--I'm wondering what the fidelity and bit rate is for the line-in recording capability.
Is it 64k bps? Something else?
Any one else using the line in?
Thanks,
Larry

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