New iPod has the ability to record audio
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just found this very interesting report at iPodding.com, about a somewhat hidden function in the new iPods:
iPodding.com: Enable recording mode
iPodding.com: How to record right now
Maybe this feature will see the light (without the hack) in a future software update in addition to a line of accessories for recording analog audio (microphones, line in, etc...).
Discuss.
iPodding.com: Enable recording mode
iPodding.com: How to record right now
Maybe this feature will see the light (without the hack) in a future software update in addition to a line of accessories for recording analog audio (microphones, line in, etc...).
Discuss.
Comments
1) the necessary software/hardware isn't quite finished yet.
2) Steve wants to use the capability in conjunction with some larger event.
Originally posted by Jeremiah Rich
Eek. You beat me to posting this! Now, I really want an iPod. I would guess of course that this means it will eventually become a feature.... (As this is the only thing really holding me back from buying one....)
Actually AAC support and this feature were holding me back but I gave in and ordered when they were released. To find out they might add recording down the line just reassures me I did the right thing. Lets just hope it wasn't a technical issue with this version that stopped release so that I don't need to buy another version for my recording.
You can walk into your lecture, stick ya ipod on the desk and sit back and relax while the iPod "gives" the lecture!
Originally posted by Telomar
Actually AAC support and this feature were holding me back but I gave in and ordered when they were released. To find out they might add recording down the line just reassures me I did the right thing. Lets just hope it wasn't a technical issue with this version that stopped release so that I don't need to buy another version for my recording.
Having to buy a new version to get a feature that is almost already there just seems a bit too much really (especially if a microphone can be incorporated via the new connector). Fortunately it looks like Jobs is trying to make some of the features backwards compatible (AAC) so even if we do not get recording till the next release let's hope the current line can be upgraded or that some third party developers find a way around it. Who knows, maybe a third party will develop a microphone for this before Apple?
Matsu!! Get your iPod NOW! You should have no complaints with these bad boys.
Originally posted by Retrograde
Having to buy a new version to get a feature that is almost already there just seems a bit too much really (especially if a microphone can be incorporated via the new connector).
It certainly does look like it's just waiting for a firmware update and a mic but I just wonder why they'd hold off on announcing it unless they plan it for when sales lag a bit.
But, if it already has audio in/out, how about adding a small accessory ccd/cmos video camera (Apple or third party) on the top firewire connector and use it as a portable minicamcorder? How about becoming an accessory for iChat 2?
Alas, the iPod is getting so small and light, it rivals some mobile phones in this area. It already has contacts and calendars, and works great with iSync. Probably the idea of the iPod becoming the iPhone in the near future is not so far fetched after all. Even if it means not being mobile per se, but rather as a telecommunications peripheral for Macs.
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"under your seat, those of you with iPods will find a dock and a bag.
plug in your iPod for the Firmware upgrade while you unwrap the microphone.
you may now record the remainder of the Keynote."
<* and there was much rejoicing *>
takes a lot to move the vibrating diaphragm in reverse, so your shouting into the earphone will sound weak and tinny, but if you desperately need to test mic functionality, swap plugs and holler into your cans.
back in the 20th Century, Apple used an unusually long mic plug on its external omnidirectional mic and on most pre-B+W hardware. something like 2mm longer between rings on the minijack-diameter plug. proprietary enough that this test would not work due to the different plug lengths for audio input and output.
works on most PC soundcards, 3rd party cards, stereos...
post results.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
and almost any set of headphones/speakers can function as a microphone if you plug the (compatible) jack into an input port
takes a lot to move the vibrating diaphragm in reverse, so your shouting into the earphone will sound weak and tinny, but if you desperately need to test mic functionality, swap plugs and holler into your cans.
Are you serious, curiousuburb? When I read the post at MacRumors that claimed they had recorded by speaking into the earphones, I immediately assumed they were full of it. Can you really use a speaker as a (primitive) microphone? I just have a really hard time believing that. \
Escher
Originally posted by Escher
Are you serious, curiousuburb? When I read the post at MacRumors that claimed they had recorded by speaking into the earphones, I immediately assumed they were full of it. Can you really use a speaker as a (primitive) microphone? I just have a really hard time believing that. \
Escher
Yeah, you can.
A speaker takes an electrical signal and turns it into a magnetic signal that makes a speaker cone wobble (or something like that, I slept through Physics class). A microphone has a cone that wobbles when audio waves hit it, which creates a magnetic signal which is converted into an electric one. The same process but backwards.
So technically, a speaker and a microphone are interchangeable. In practice it doesn't always work like that, but you can certainly record through most headphones. I've done so in music tech lessons when I've been desperate for a mic
Never tried playing audio through a microphone... be interesting to see if it worked.
Amorya