Music Thing: now the iPod records audio (properly)

Wow, Apple is finally going to allow the iPod to record music properly? Well it’s about time! Actually, I just ranted for the heck of it. Since I don’t own nor wish to own an iPod, this news really did not get me as excited as I initially let on.

It’s been quite a week for mobile recording. The M-Audio Microtrack (a small, ugly, useful, $399) began shipping in numbers. I saw the Windows CE-based PD Audio system (weird, bulky-but-high quality, $750+) system for the first time, and Sony announced the PCM-D1 (awesome looking, crazy, $2,000).

But the really big news came on Wednesday. Hidden in the small print of the iPod 5 announcement was news that Apple have finally allowed the iPod to record audio properly. Previous models had a 8khz (telephone quality) cap on recording. iPod Linux proved that the machine was perfectly capable of recording in mono at up to 96khz (pro quality), and now we can all do 44.1khz (CD quality - but this might be compressed) stereo recording. [Read the rest]

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