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Audio Recording on New iPods

Posted by pudge on from the we-are-listening dept.

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."

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  1. Unofficially confirmed by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An Apple rep has already confirmed (off the record) that this will be an accessory to come the next months.

    One can wonder why they didn't out it as a feature though.

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    1. Re:Unofficially confirmed by Teancom · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If, for instance, they were having problems and needed to fix something in the software first? So they ship the unit with functional hardware, and in an update in 'the next months', they have an update and make another ipod announcement. Doesn't sound too odd to me...

  2. Re:New Input mode by slowtech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why gosh, slowtech, that is quite interesting. I imagine that there are a lot of people out there, like you and I, who lust for an iPod, but can't justify $300 for a portable music player. But, of course, if you can replace your PDA, and have a portable music player, and a small home stereo system (the iPod cradle can be hooked into powered speakers), then that is a real deal.

    Too bad you didn't think to put that in your original comment, eh?

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  3. Re:BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At 2.6 pounds, I would hope so.
    The iPod is 5.6 ounces.

  4. Re:Other New feature in the new iPods by Space+Coyote · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heh, for ~$19 you can buy yourself a firewire PCI card as well. You'd be pretty daft not to get that instead of the special USB 2.0 cable.

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  5. Re:iPod at the practice session.. by Chief+Typist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not to mention all of the people who record concerts (either with or without the band's consent.)

    There's a huge number of people who currently use DAT technology for capturing shows. Using an iPod would be very attractive for two reasons: 1) You don't have a tape to flip half way through the show and 2) it doesn't look like a recording device to the security folks.

  6. Re:Voice recognition? by extra88 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if we're really lucky, it'll have its own speech capability so it can reply, "not right now 'Cheech,' I'm going to play The Clash instead."

    But seriously folks, I don't think that's very realistic. Sure, they are phones now which can accept voice commands but they require training and have a very limited vocabulary. The kind of recognition you're talking about is a lot closer to understanding continuous speech, something which is a lot harder and requires a lot more processing to do well.

    More feasible is teaching it to recognize a few words like Stop Start Pause Next Track Album. Even that I think would not be a software upgrade but would require a hardware upgrade.

  7. Aside from the fact... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That voice recognition works over desktop processors pretty good. no way in heck the ipod's processor could do that.