In alt.music.mp3.hardware Steve Underwood wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
In alt.music.mp3.hardware Steve Underwood wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
In alt.music.mp3.hardware wrote:
Hi, My organization is considering making recordings of
conferences/lectures that we do and one our people attend (Our main
thing is disseminating information relating to aquaculture). I am
trying to get them into it but since they barely have a concept of it
they aren't willing to put much money into it yet.
So. I am trying to track down an easy (I am the "techy-est" here,
kidna sad), cheap recording solution which I thought would be something
like a Mic and mp3 player/recorder (like some of iRiver's). But i
Iriver flash players, or indeed any other player with MP3 recording (PCM
recording may be less suitable) and line-in, combined with an external
microphone will give you a professional quality sound recording.
Expecting the internal mic to work well is perhaps a bit optimistic,
though it may be adequate to your needs.
Be warned that *very* few MP3 players do MP3 recording. Most only record
in a rather low quality ADPCM format. An external mic makes them sound a
bit better than the internal mic, but not a great deal better.
True, which is why I stated MP3 recording. The iriver will do MP3 recording
at up to 320K (IIRC) (though not with the "disk drive" firmware)
iriver make a number of models, both disk based and flash based. The
ones I have seen only do ADPCM recording. Can you specify the models
which record MP3? A friend was looking for a player which will record
stereo MP3s and we couldn't find one. None of the iriver models
available here (Hong Kong) seem to offer anything more than ADPCM.
IFP-395t is the one I have, and I believe the IFP-8 and IFP-7 series too.
Generatlly the models with "line in" support MP3 recording.