[bookport] Re: Audio Question
- From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:42:56 -0500
Yes, but the audio quality, at least for my unit, would not let
me record and then listen to a meeting. At best I can record
little messages from close up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Buhrow" <buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:02 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Audio Question
Helo Gary. As I recall, the Olympus audio file format is not,
strictly speaking, Wav, but rather a proprietary file format
which needs a
proprietary player. Having said that, however, if you can get
the player
to spit wav out, you can then use the lame encoder to turn it
into mp3.
Lame is nice in that it lets you select what bit rate you want,
and, I
imagine, that for a meeting, a low bit rate, say, 32K or so,
would be fine.
On the other hand, though, why use an Olympus as a sound recorder
when
you can stick a large flash card in the Bookport and record
directly to it?
Its bit rate is fairly low, as I recall, and a 1 or 2 gig card
should be
able to record for 10 or more hours, surely long enough for any
meeting of
reasonable duration, yes?
-Brian
On Sep 8, 9:12am, "Gary Wunder" wrote:
} Subject: [bookport] Audio Question
} Recently I've been looking at sound recorders made by Olympus.
} They record for several hours and while their quality isn't
} always fantastic, they are good for capturing meetings. The
} problem for me is that I can't edit them to remove dead space
at
} the beginning or during meetings and I don't have a way to
} convert them into a format where I can index them for quick
} retrieval of important information. Does anyone know of a good
} WAV to MP3 converter so that I can at least put them on the
} BookPort which has the capability to do bookmarks?
}
}
}
} Gary
}
}
}
}
}
}
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