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Audio Recording on New iPods
Vertig0gitreV writes "Over at iPodding they are reporting that in the Diagnostic Mode of the new new iPods (released on the 28th of May) there are two options for audio recording: mono through the headphone jack, and a stereo line-in through the docking port via the yet-to-be-announced line-in adaptor."
Ah, Archos Jukebox. The big, fat bloated girlfriend of the MP3-players. You must be proud.
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Archos Jukebox had one (I had one of these machines... Huge, heavy, slow transfer rates, shitty hardware, buggy software, had it replaced twice in three monthes, and then swapped it with an iPod) Guess what? It was useless: whenever you try to record from the internal microphone, the hard disk would start spinning (and put itself in motion every 2 or 3 minutes). The noise would cover any sound coming from the microphone. Though I got to admit that I had the best MP3 records of a spinning hard disk... they were just soooooo accurate. There would be similar problems on the iPod (even though the iPod hard disk only has to spin every one and then, because it has so much more RAM).
The "record from line-in" feature was nifty, but I never really found an use for it...
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great, so everyone will TALK to their PDAs in meetings. That won't be annoying at all, i'm sure.
If only i'd known i could flip my DATs over! Course that'd probably break the machine, since they've only got spindle holes on one side... ;)
Would be cool if they included a tiny hairdryer once they're at it...