Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux friendly, portable digital recording devices?

From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 21:11:29 EET

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:50, David Olofson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 18.53, Jan Depner wrote:
> [...]
> > When recording on batteries they will
> > last longer using mp3 recording than WAV recording.
>
> Weird. :-) Disk/flash I/O uses more power than mp3 encoding...?
>
    Only with the disk. It has to keep spinning it up.

>
> > One of the nice things about this company is that
> > they have open sourced all of their software and opened the specs
> > for the units. They actually want open source developers on-board
> > (go figure).
>
> Kewl. One should almost get one just for political reasons. ;-)
>
    Also the fact that it supports OGG and FLAC.

> (But I could use one anyway, for recording those interesting sounds
> that are too far from my computer to be recorded directly.)
>
    That's one of the main reasons I got one. I've got a little
Behringer MX602A to go with it for recording gigs. I used to use a huge
SONY PCM with a VCR and the mixer. It also will record in 48KHz instead
of 44.1KHz.

Jan
Received on Tue Jan 4 00:15:08 2005

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