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'iPod: Hot Accessories!' Confirmed.
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Merci à Frédéric pour l'info !
Voici une image trouvée sur l'Apple Store:
Il y a déjà un lien non fonctionnel vers de futurs accessoires iPod qui n'existent pas encore officiellement.
Merci à Frédéric pour l'info !
Voici une image trouvée sur l'Apple Store:
Il y a déjà un lien non fonctionnel vers de futurs accessoires iPod qui n'existent pas encore officiellement.
Originally posted by billyboy
Could be, but what about going a lateral stage further - the microphone is an iSight without the camera.
edit: whatever it is, I dont have any worries about the quality of a mic on an Apple product. The internal mic on my Powerbook is absolutely good, and the iSight one is supposed to be very clever too.
as far as microphones go, both of the pickups you mentioned are crap if you plan on doing anything besides talking into them, for the sole reason to here it played back. thats what me and a few others that have posted here are concerned with, that this mic will infact just be a simple iSight type mic. these mics in powerbooks and iSights are NOT that great at all! a halfway decent stereo mic from sony, of all companies, is between $100-$300 its-self, and believe me, the mic in your (and my) powerbook is not worth over $15.
Line-in...please?
"Thank-you to Frédéric for info! Here a picture found on the apple Store:
There already is a non functional link towards of incidental futures iPod that do not exist again officially."
Basically, it says the same thing as the MacRumors main page... except in French.
There already is a non functional link towards of incidental futures iPod that do not exist again officially."
Basically, it says the same thing as the MacRumors main page... except in French.
Re: 'iPod: Hot Accessories!' Confirmed.
it is written "now record your voice and store more than tunes"
could it be than we get, in addition to the audio input, a firmware update which could allow to play something else than sounds???
now of course the problem for video is that iPod have a 2 colors LCD display...sorry I was dreaming awake
it is written "now record your voice and store more than tunes"
could it be than we get, in addition to the audio input, a firmware update which could allow to play something else than sounds???
now of course the problem for video is that iPod have a 2 colors LCD display...sorry I was dreaming awake
well of course line in will be good.
where will it be if its not a new model / just use the headphone jack ?
where will it be if its not a new model / just use the headphone jack ?
LINE IN
I for one would also love to see a line in. I have been looking into mini-discs for a long time to use as a secondary audio source for semi-pro audio recording in a live situations. As long as the quality is good, my reason for an iPod just doubled, and it was already huge!
I for one would also love to see a line in. I have been looking into mini-discs for a long time to use as a secondary audio source for semi-pro audio recording in a live situations. As long as the quality is good, my reason for an iPod just doubled, and it was already huge!
not the dock.... the firewire connection. simular to the portable battery charger connection, just a line-in adaption or a iPod designed mic
I daresay someone will be minus a job in Euro Apple right about now (or at least when Steve wakes up). It's now 9am in London, so some efficient <ahem> little employee has hopped to it bright and early... perhaps they haven't heard of time zones..
does anyone else see it that way?
Or is there a physical barrier there that I am missing that makes this not an option?
Or is there a physical barrier there that I am missing that makes this not an option?
Personally... i think any attempt to record audio into a portable device is a hack job. Nothing beats a real mic with preamps.
The media card reader does have me interested though as I have a Canon G5. It'll save me lugging around my laptop to flush my memory cards.
I'm surprised not many people know about the audio recording capability. The 3rd Gen iPod since the 30GB models has a builtin AD audio converter in the headphone jack. Anandtech did a comprehensive review on the new iPod a couple months ago and commented on it when they disected it.
The media card reader does have me interested though as I have a Canon G5. It'll save me lugging around my laptop to flush my memory cards.
I'm surprised not many people know about the audio recording capability. The 3rd Gen iPod since the 30GB models has a builtin AD audio converter in the headphone jack. Anandtech did a comprehensive review on the new iPod a couple months ago and commented on it when they disected it.
Firewire line in mic sound like the way to do it...and if all is well you can have an option to record at different bitrates.
Whats with the cardreader dealy ?
Whats with the cardreader dealy ?
meh.
thats what i meant, the dock port on the iPod, not the actual dock... that would be completely pointless! My bad, but... you all shoulda assumed i meant the iPods dock port!
The image is still up there at the UK Apple Store-but it does not appear at the Apple Australia Store, it seems
correction... it was actually a Cnet review.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache...+headphone+jack+record+seconds&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Although Apple makes no mention of it, the new iPod can record line-in audio -- in mono via the headphone jack, and in stereo via the jack on the cradle. However, you can record for only 6 seconds at a time. Apple might add this recording feature in earnest later with a firmware update, but could not comment on that possibility.
my guess is recording will be very compressed and record to the 32 MB buffer (~ 1-2 hrs?), then transfer to HD when buffer fills up, or it will drain the battery too fast in one or more of the following ways:
1) too much processing power used to encode recording real-time
2) hard drive spinning up and down constantly
3) hard drive spinning continuously during recording
sorry if i burst any bubbles (i don't think i did, did i?). of course apple will likely have some audio recording and real-time encoding tricks up their sleeves and this post will die in a faded lack of glory.
none of the announcements by apple tomorrow should excite me much. i have a 2nd gen 20 GB iPod -- no complaints and no plans to buy another music player for another 2-4 yrs; i haven't used a windows computer for my own good in the last 2 years, so i can't foresee how long it'll be before i use iTunes for windows. maybe that's why i posted killjoy.
1) too much processing power used to encode recording real-time
2) hard drive spinning up and down constantly
3) hard drive spinning continuously during recording
sorry if i burst any bubbles (i don't think i did, did i?). of course apple will likely have some audio recording and real-time encoding tricks up their sleeves and this post will die in a faded lack of glory.
none of the announcements by apple tomorrow should excite me much. i have a 2nd gen 20 GB iPod -- no complaints and no plans to buy another music player for another 2-4 yrs; i haven't used a windows computer for my own good in the last 2 years, so i can't foresee how long it'll be before i use iTunes for windows. maybe that's why i posted killjoy.
... The 3rd Gen iPod since the 30GB models has a builtin AD audio converter in the headphone jack. Anandtech did a comprehensive review on the new iPod a couple months ago and commented on it when they disected it....
can't find that.... went to Anandtech site and they don't have many articles about the iPod (one that was from Jun the other Jan), and there was nothing about that in that article
I know I have heard that in the past in another forum, that the feature is lieing dormant and that we have been waiting on proper iPod software and such to debut it..... just trying to see whats a few steps ahead
can't find that.... went to Anandtech site and they don't have many articles about the iPod (one that was from Jun the other Jan), and there was nothing about that in that article
I know I have heard that in the past in another forum, that the feature is lieing dormant and that we have been waiting on proper iPod software and such to debut it..... just trying to see whats a few steps ahead