Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] Portable HD audio recorder
From: Josh Green (jgreen_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 00:00:48 EET
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 10:29, D. Stimits wrote:
> Steve Harris wrote:
> >
> > Found this while looking for something else.
> >
> > http://www.archos.com/uk/products/product_500201.html
> >
> > 6gig HD, mp3 recorder. Analogue/spdif input (no preamp or phantom)
> > USB. 30-160 kb/s. Costs E340 (~$340)
> >
> > Not really competition for the linux based thing people were discussing
> > here, but interesting none the less.
> >
> > - Steve
>
> I noticed it has a USB connector. I don't know to what extent it is
> used, maybe it is used as a simple file transfer port. If it does not
> require a specific o/s or program to copy over the USB port, there are
> keychain sized USB hard drives out there now which are o/s independent
> as well...it'd be interesting to know if one of these keychain devices
> could be used to extend or download directly to the mp3 device. And if
> not, certainly a small embedded linux controller could be created as
> nothing more than a USB mp3 storage area network device. (not that I can
> afford one, but hey, it's interesting)
>
Yes yes :) I've been looking for a good high quality digital portable
microphone recorder that can transfer the audio data in faster than
realtime to my Linux machine. It seems kind of hard to find such a
thing. If anyone knows of one, I'd love to hear about it. I guess it
could be MP3 based. I basically want one to be able to record sounds for
making MIDI soundfont instruments. It doesn't really even need to have
that much storage on it, something like 30 minutes would be adequate.
Perhaps that unit above might be the answer. It would be nice if it had
Linux on it though :)
> D. Stimits, stimits_AT_idcomm.com
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Josh Green
Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)
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