Re: [IRCA] Digital Recorders MP3 Technology. Advice sought.

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,

 

I cleaned trash from email and have no record of previous conversations on this thread, so I may be redundant.  Unless you are really hooked on the idea of a player/recorder as a standalone entity, you would be better off buying a software package to do the job.  In the past, someone mentioned "Total Recorder" (http://www.highcriteria.com/) as a very highly regarded program.  Price is $12-24 depending on options.  There is also something called "Radio Your Way" (http://www.pogoproducts.com/radio_yourway.html" that is an external piece of hardware.  Price is $200-250 (not counting discount availability).  They both have advantages, but I personally would be more interested in "Total Recorder" as it has editing versatility built-in.  All you would need to use it is a cable (and possibly an adapter) to hook a computer audio-in to the radio's line-out or headphone jack.

 

Correlating seconds/minutes to KB varies on the quality of the MP3 recording.  A recording of an AM radio station does not require near as much bandwidth as a symphony, so you could cut the bitrate down and still be fine with the recording.  As a general rule, you can consider 1 MB equal to 1 minute.

 

If you have a Windoze computer, you probably have SOUND RECORDER built-in.  It will record WAV files (1 minute = 10 MB), and there are programs available to convert WAV to MP3.  You can listen to MP3, WAV or SHN files in Winamp.  SHN files require a special Winamp plug-in.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Mike Hawkins

Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patrick Martin, thank you for your feedback about MP3 recorder/players!
>
>
> FOLKS:
>
> Still need lots of advice on using MP3 to record and playback from my DX 
> receiver.
>
> 1. Don't have any idea what 15 seconds of station ID is likely to 
> translate to in KB of MP3 file. The usual ID full of fanfare, BS and 
> bellowing.
>
> 2. I have numerous 100 and 250 MB Zip? disks which I much prefer to use 
> in the meantime for storing DX MP3 files.
>
> 3. Don't EVEN want to think about buying and interfacing a CD ROM burner 
> right now. In the future, say like a year when I get comfortable with DX 
> MP3 file
> storage it looks like the way to go. But not now for me.
>
> 4. Request maybe a list of $100 - $200 MP3 recorder/players. I prefer 
> USB interface, but I can't be choosy.
>
> 5. This is even farther in the future, but is there anyone out there in
>  
> IRCA Romper Room who has used DSP with MP3 files and the like?
>
> I'm ahead of the pack in some aspects of digital, but haven't so much as 
> a clue about other.
>
> 73 de Charles WD9INP/4
>
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> Greenville, North Carolina
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