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December 31, 2004
Introducing my iTalk Microphone
I just got back from the local Apple Store with my new iTalk microphone. It's a small adapter you plug into the top of your iPod, turning it into a recording device. As you can see from this quick podcast, the recording quality isn't the best in the world; Apple has its iPods configured so it can't record at a high bit rate so you could capture live music.
Fortunately, there's a Sourceforge project working on the problem: they've created a version of Linux you can upload into your iPod and reset the bit rate so the recording quality increases tremendously. The only problem is that I have a new fourth-generation iPod, and they haven't gotten the software to work on the new model yet.
For now, the iTalk device will be great for capturing interviews and random comments on the fly, but otherwise, I'll probably stick to using my laptop for recording higher-quality podcasts... -andy
Posted by acarvin at December 31, 2004 10:05 PM
Listen to a computer-generated podcast of this article
