[linux-elitists] How about digital voice recorders while we're at it? (was: Re: Portable music player?)

[Tony Godshall]

I've since done some MP3 recording with the onboard mic.

And I've gotten a c240 and done some recording with it too with rockbox.
Often by mistake ;-)

Sounds good to me(tm).


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
> I use the open source rockbox.org firmware on my Sansa e240, which are
>  commonly available for < $50.  They do record and in addition to the onboard
>  flash, they also accept microSD cards.  I've only used the 2GB ones (which
>  are sometimes as cheap as $18 at Fry's), which should give you an
>  essentially unlimited recording time (buy as many as you like).
>
>  Haven't done much recording with them, so you should look around for more
>  specific reviews in that department.  The manual[1] says it records to PCM
>  Wave and AIFF, the losslessly compressed WavPack and the lossy MPEG
>  Layer 3
>
>  The Sansa c240 is essentially a more compact version of the same,
>  and the 250, 260, etc. have larger capacities.
>
>  Tony
>
>
>  [1] http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-buildch9.html
>
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Karsten M. Self
>  <karsten@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>  > on Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:36:22PM -0700, Don Marti (dmarti@zgp.org) wrote:
>  >  > I now have enough no-laptop time in my day that I can
>  >  > justify getting some kind of portable media player.
>  >
>  >  In my own case, it's a slight variant:  I'm looking for a good digital
>  >  voice recorder which saves to a reasonably supported standard, and has
>  >  good general features.  Reading specs on packaging is pretty much a lost
>  >  cause.
>  >
>  >  Feature list:
>  >
>  >   - Save to WAV, MP3, OGG (fat chance), or another open standard audio
>  >     format.  Found an RCA that somewhat works but saves to "VOC" format,
>  >     which is apparently somewhat supported but not in this particular
>  >     implementation.  I'm finding references to units which apparently
>  >     store to WMV / WMA (windows media) format, which may work, would
>  >     like to know what other's experiences are.
>  >
>  >   - "Supported" == can play/edit w/ xmms, audacity, and/or sox.
>  >
>  >   - File transfer capabilities.  Usually means "treat device like a USB
>  >     drive".  Much faster than recording over audio-out.
>  >
>  >   - Good navigation on the unit itself.  Skipping between recordings,
>  >     forward/back scan w/in a given recording, bookmarking w/in
>  >     recordings.  The RCA unit's fast-forward and very, very, very slow
>  >     reverse functions simply suck.
>  >
>  >   - High capacity.  30 - 100+ hours would be good.  Means I don't have
>  >     to constantly worry about running out of storage.
>  >
>  >   - Capable of taking rechargeable batteries.  Because I love my mother.
>  >
>  >
>  >  Peace.
>  >
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Best Regards.
Please keep in touch.
This is unedited.
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