10 Jan
2005
10 Jan
'05
10:53 a.m.
I think the Neuros II (http://www.neurosaudio.com/) is
closer to what
you need. It includes a built in microphone as well as a mic in.
Records in mp3 or WAV (up o 48KHz). USB 2.0 interface. Mine works very
well with Linux. You can get one with 256MB of memory for $140 or one
with a 20GB hard drive for $250.
I would need one for making free sound effect library.
Has it a stereo mic-in connector? Or stereo line-in connector
for which I may find mic2line conversion cables?
How do you transfer the recorded files to Linux? Is the device
seen as a standard usb disk? And the audio files can be transferred
as any other file? This is important if I use public PCs for emptying
the recorded sounds to a web site.
Neuron is only device which seems to have free (as in freedom)
transfer method between the device and computer. Creatives etc.
simply require one to install a special executable to your
MS Windows. One may transfer audio files as regular files, but
they cannot be played!
Juhana
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10 Jan
11:06 a.m.
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 08:53, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
Yes. Stereo line in - 1/8". It also has a built in mono mic (I
haven't tried that yet).
I think the
Neuros II (http://www.neurosaudio.com/) is closer to what
you need. It includes a built in microphone as well as a mic in.
Records in mp3 or WAV (up o 48KHz). USB 2.0 interface. Mine works very
well with Linux. You can get one with 256MB of memory for $140 or one
with a 20GB hard drive for $250.
I would need one for making free sound effect library.
Has it a stereo mic-in connector? Or stereo line-in connector
for which I may find mic2line conversion cables?
How do you transfer the recorded files to Linux? Is
the device
seen as a standard usb disk? And the audio files can be transferred
as any other file? This is important if I use public PCs for emptying
the recorded sounds to a web site.
It's seem as a standard USB disk drive. Transfer is USB 2.0. I use
the Sorune command line interface (rarely the GUI) to handle the
database transactions.
Jan
7:51 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:53:40PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
Neuron is only device which seems to have free (as in freedom)
transfer method between the device and computer.
I have an iRiver iHP-120 (now called the H120), and it's awesome.
It's about the same size as an iPod, but it shows up as a regular
USB2.0 HD, with no special software. So you just drag your music
onto it, and you can listen. It also has a built in microphone
(which sounds pretty terrible), and also a line level I/O,
optical I/O, and a 1/8 mic input. It's not free as in speech, and
definently not free as in beer, but it's a great unit. The open
source firmware on the neuros is really great, but the unit
itself is pretty large. When I bought this, though, I was
seriously considering the neuros, because of all the potential
for a lot of user-driven features, so you'd probably be happy
with either one.
-spencer
11 Jan
11 Jan
2:47 a.m.
hi,
I also have an Iriver (the h140, same as h120 with a 40gb hdd). This
device also has Ogg support (only for playback), and as Spencer says,
works as a standard USB HD. The only gripe is that there is apparently
a problem with this unit dropping samples while recording to .WAV. I
can't notice it myself in listening to recordings, but many have tested
by recording sinetones and found the problem is consistently there.
Iriver have been very slow in releasing firmware updates too, which is
annoying though not impossible to live with. It appears the Rockbox
alternative firmware is being ported to the H1xx series, so that may
take care of that problem, but just thought folks should be aware of
this issue in their purchasing decisions.
I also was considered the Neuros, but couldn't find it locally. It
appears to only be sold in the US, and my being in .au would make any
warranty issues problematic. Would have bought it as it is definitely
the most open jukebox style player/recorder out there.
regards
Michael
Spencer Russell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:53:40PM +0200, Juhana
Sadeharju wrote:
Neuron is only device which seems to have free (as
in freedom)
transfer method between the device and computer.
I have an iRiver iHP-120 (now called the H120), and it's awesome.
It's about the same size as an iPod, but it shows up as a regular
USB2.0 HD, with no special software. So you just drag your music
onto it, and you can listen. It also has a built in microphone
(which sounds pretty terrible), and also a line level I/O,
optical I/O, and a 1/8 mic input. It's not free as in speech, and
definently not free as in beer, but it's a great unit. The open
source firmware on the neuros is really great, but the unit
itself is pretty large. When I bought this, though, I was
seriously considering the neuros, because of all the potential
for a lot of user-driven features, so you'd probably be happy
with either one.
-spencer
12 Jan
12 Jan
3:35 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:47:45PM +0800, omjn wrote:
The only gripe is that there is apparently a problem
with this
unit dropping samples while recording to .WAV. I can't notice
it myself in listening to recordings, but many have tested by
recording sinetones and found the problem is consistently
there.
I've also heard about this problem, but from what I understand,
some units have the problem, and some don't. If you have a
warrenty, I'm pretty sure they'll replace yours if it does have
the problem. I bought mine off eBay, so I don't have the option,
but I think I got lucky and mine isn't one of the bad devices.
-spencer
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