[LAU] [OT] Open Source Portable Recorder?

[Folderol]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:10:33 -0600
wes schreiner <wes at infosink.com> wrote:

> On 01/08/2013 03:54 PM, Folderol wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:36:16 -0600
> > wes schreiner <wes at infosink.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 01/08/2013 07:16 AM, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
> >>> WRT use cases:
> >>> I'd love to build something like the time machine jack client, only in
> >>> hardware.
> >>
> >> This already exists. Both the Zoom H4N and the Tascam DR-40 have a mode
> >> where they are constantly recording into a circular buffer, just like
> >> Time Machine. When you push a button the buffer is stored and recording
> >> proceeds like normal, so your recording starts several seconds before
> >> you push the button, just like Time Machine.
> >>
> >> wes
> >
> > Slightly diverging, does any portable recorder have a RT clock so you can stop
> > and start it as you please but still know exactly when a sound occurred. I'm
> > particularly thinking of field recordings of wildlife and spoken commentary.
> >
> 
> The two that I'm familiar with, the Zoom H4N and the Tascam DR-40, both 
> have clock/calendars and the recordings get a time/date stamp in their 
> names. So you know when the recording starts and from that can figure 
> out when any event in the recording occurred.
> 
> wes

That sounds *exactly* like what I want. Funny, I've never heard it mentions as
a feature before.

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