Posted: April 3rd, 2005 | Filed under: Technology | Tags: 24 february, bernhard, condenser, condenser microphone, digital cameras, faithful audience, ipod, iriver, italk, itunes, microphones, new feature, raw format, recording voice, seals, sound quality, voice memos, voice recorder, volume record | Comments Off
Like, wow, you can record voice on your iPod and use it for interviews. If you buy an iTalk voice recorder, that is. Big fucking deal. I can just picture Jobs’ faithful audience clapping like seals for this ‘amazing’ new feature.
Hello. Why can’t I just stick the (better) microphones I already own in the machine? Superior, feature rich players like the iRiver H-series can do just that. Apple, if you want me to buy your gear, make it do what it should be able to do. It takes a lot more than pretty design to win over this (power) user. I’m not a big fan of the white look anyway. And I really don’t need games on it. Seriously. I’ll take serious features over games, any day.
Oh well, at least those Photo iPods (359 €’s not a bad price, actually) will soon (March, software update) be able to connect directly to digital cameras. Something they should have been able to do from the start if you ask me.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2005 | Filed under: Technology | Tags: aiwa, amateurs, archiving, cassette recorders, college kids, coming of age, consumer apps, first exposure, italk, lecture section, matt haughey, mayhem, micro cassette, mind races, music server, personal audio, posterity, recording studios, tape recorder, walkman | Comments Off
Matt posts about iTalk and says:
“It’s crazy to think you can store something like 20 hours of your own recordings with this and my mind races when thinking of how I would have used this technology when I was in college.”
Which makes me go ‘huh?’.
I got my first tape recorder when I was 9 (in 1972), which I used to record myself and my friends. (Unfortunately the cute little thing was lost during my parents’ divorce, my mother’s death and the ensuing mayhem. Have I ever written about that here? If not, I should.) There was a whole bunch of nothing in between, but I bought an AIWA recording walkman in 1989 and have had various gadgets to record stuff since then, tape, mini tape, DAT, MD. Most of them with better recording quality than the iTalk/iPod combination. So the technology to record stuff for posterity has been in the hands of ‘amateurs’ for ages. How come it’s only sinking in now the iPod can do it? (Other than that most teenagers, college kids would probably not be interested in preserving moments for posterity.)
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