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Professional, Portable, Live MP3 Encoding

Posted by timothy on from the frauenhofferism dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Developed by DIALOG4/ORBAN the unit is called the Sountainer, a fliptop portable about the dimensions of a cell phone. Emphasized as an audio field recorder, the unit was designed for broadcasters, journalists, and artists who wish to record a live feed of their performance off the mixing board."

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  1. I see exactly two uses... by SmittyTheBold · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are two things this might be useful for:
    1) Really crappy bootleg recording. It's the intended use, sure. But nobody with any experience or sense will use it for that.

    2) College students who want to take notes. With the 32kbit rate, it would be great for recording long lectures.

    In light of those two uses, I see the primary market being college students who maybe think they can be bootleggers on the side. It's not the world's biggest market, bu never understimate the willingness of people my age to spend money on (almost) useless crap ;)

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