On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 20:42 +0000, S. Massy wrote: > Hi, > > For a project of mine, I would need a portable, affordable ($200-250) > way to make quality stereo recordings of natural and/or urban > environments. Here are the criteria I have defined so far: > * sr should be at least 44.1khz > * recording should be stereo > * if compressed, prefer lossless compression, otherwise, good quality > encoding: minimum 160kbps > * Should be reasonably portable (i.e compact and battery-operated) and > sturdy. > > So far, the idea I came up with is to use one of those little Iriver > flash players, or even one of their hd-based ones, if I can find one > chap enough, with a stereo mic going into a little pre-amp, then going > into the Iriver's line-in. Anybody has any comments on such a set-up? > Any other idea comes to mind? > > I heard that minidisc recorders do a very good job when used for field > recordings, and that many already have inputs for a stereo mic, but, > as far as I could tell, they interact very poorly with Linux, and they > use a proprietary compression format. How accurate is this? Has > anybody had a positive experience with a minidisc recorder and Linux? we just got an iAudio X5. its a disk-based system, not flash. rugged, thought not "industrially" so, interacts perfectly with linux (USB mass storage device, no special playlist s/w required). plays videos, WAV, FLAC, ogg as well as the usual mp3/wma crowd. has line-in, though through an "expander" connector. --p
