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.
Regards,
Steve
I have the Iriver IFP790. It will record a very high fidelity mono
signal via it's built in mic, or stereo if you use line in. Again, the
quality is very high, more than enough to catch a lecture, and its even
good enough to record a live concert. You can adjust the quality of the
voice recording from it's best of 160 kbps at 44khz, down to 8 kbps at
11.025 khz. You can also turn on or off auto-gain control as well as
other features. When the IFP records, it does so in it's native IRM
(Iriver rights management) format. When you download the recordings to
your PC, the Iriver music manager software then offers to convert the
IRM file to MP3 upon export.
Hope this helps.
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