Can anyone give some quick advice on this Mini-disk system - I bought a new Sony MD because it both allowed for external mic (sound quality is wonderful) and for transfering files by USB. The problem I've encountered though is Attrac3 - you can only transfer to the computer a file that was originally transferred *from* that same computer - this is an interesting example of current desperation to establish unbreakable copyright protection. So of course all my interviews have to be played into the computer in real time because they did not originate on the computer! I'm about the go into battle with Sony over this, to see if there is any way around it (ie, can I not convince the software that I in fact originated this material!), but before I do this, does anyone know about how to deal with this issue? Don Sony hits a grand slam! Announcing Hi-MD (spec) a new Minidisc format based upon a 1GB MD medium and existing MD media reformatted to 300MB. Hi-MD equipment features uploading to PC for mic-input recordings, and built-in linear PCM as well as ATRAC3plus encoding at 256 and 64kbps. Hi-MD recorders also function as USB data drives. Available in April, recording equipment prices will be $200 (MZ-NH600D), $250 (MZ-NHF800), $300 (MZ-NH900) and $400 (MZ-NH1) with Hi-MD blanks costing about $7. Sony Press Release: http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/4270 Best, Zoe _________________________________________________ Zoe Dowling, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology, School of Human Sciences University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scp1zd/ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:11:58 -0500 From: bernie.hogan@utoronto.ca To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] digital recording Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Hi Everyone, A thread was started last week about digital transcription software. This week I was wondering what people were using to actually get the digital files. I've been using a minidisc player and a program called WinNMD, but that is subpar since it only transfers in realtime. Any suggestions? Take Care BERNiE Bernie Hogan Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
Might be of help to people 'struggling' with different format audio files. Maja BTW I have chosen for the iPod (MP3, VBR, WAV) wit the Belkin voice recorder (external microphone). Works on Macs and Windows. You can even download files from your computer to the iPod (always have your notes or questions with you when you are doing your recordings :) http://www.apple.com/ipod/behindthewheel.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "phil cash cash" <cashcash@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> To: <ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: Audacity tá'c 'alaxp (good day!) ILAT, Audacity just released 1.2.0! Audacity is an open source and completely free audio editor. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ At the 2003 American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) here at the Univ of Arizona, we tested and used Audacity in our course "Computer Applications for Indigenous Communities." We recieved a very postive response from all our students, both elders and college age students alike, on its simplicity and ease of use. The elder students really liked its graphic interface with its "big" buttons. The student's main use of Audacity was simply to capture live speech in digital format and transfer it into a simple multimedia environment like PowerPoint. We used standard headset microphones, though now, you can buy headset microphones with "noise reduction", a very very useful feature that blocks out ambient background noise when recording a native speaker. When recording in Audacity, you are able to use an unlimited number of audio tracks. One of our Hupa students created a traditional song composition with mutiple tracks using only her voice. Audacity supports a wide variety of audio formats (including WAV, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis). In 2003, we created only WAV files in our course due in part to the difficulty in downloading the MP3 plug-in, however, with the latest version it is now much easier to do. You will notice that you download Audacity and the MP3 plug-in separately. After downloading, I did a simple test to create an MP3 file and it went smooth without a hitch. Of course, the advantage of using the MP3 format for your sound file format is the reduction in file size and ease of use in multimedia environments. Btw, Audacity's "help" files are outstanding! I encourage language people to go buy a headset (w/noise reduction; although you really don't have to...really), download Audacity and the MP3 plug-in, and try it out. Send me an MP3 greeting in your language! qÃ"'c (later), phil cash cash (cayuse/nez perce) UofA, ILAT -- | Maja van der Velden | maja@xs4all.nl
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