Recording sound on the 3950

[Anaheim 2002]

it records sound as .wav as default, this is a pain when i want to record audio for longer periods because of the size of a .wav. Is there a program that lets me record in mp3 or wma format?

[FishTank1701]

Encoding mp3 is far more CPU intensive than decoding it for playback is. I would suspect that if an encoder was ported to PPC2002, it would crawl, even if running a post-recording conversion from .wav -> .mp3. On the fly record & encode in real time is probably not viable with the current generation of CPU's in PPC devices.

On a related note, does anybody know if there is a way to target the .wav sound recordings to be written to CF or SD storage cards? This would alleviate some of the problem in creating long sound recordings. These .wav files could then be moved to a PC for compression/conversion.

[AnswerDude]

Originally posted by Anaheim 2002
it records sound as .wav as default, this is a pain when i want to record audio for longer periods because of the size of a .wav. Is there a program that lets me record in mp3 or wma format?

NoteM is a MP3 voice recorder for PocketPC 2002
http://www.geocities.com/zavorine/wince/mp3.htm

[FishTank1701]

Very cool, I stand corrected. It even records directly to storage cards, if you avoid high bitrates.

[courtr]

yes, you can target a storage card for the recorded info. If you open a note and go into tools/options. You can set the "Save to:" option for your storage card. A "My Documents" folder will automatically be build the first time you make a recording. The only problem is that when you make new notes it stores them in the root of the storage card.

Court