doclloyd Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 I was wondering how people are enjoying the 2nd gen portables. My church is considering a move from tape (finally) for recording sermons. We would upload, convert to wav/mp3 for CD burning and posting on the 'net respectively. But since recordings don't need to be real high quality, the 128KB/sec MP3 format might be OK. So, how does it sound?How does it upload the file to the computer? Is it wrapped in the Sonicstage DRM, like everything else, or just uploaded as a normal mp3 file? Let me know. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 I think that this was something we misunderstood in the inital specs. It is not a real function as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 I was wondering myself, as I didn't found MP3-recording in the manuals.I just hopped over to Sony Japan and guess what: It has been corrected now:http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/t...y.html&lp=ja_en (mech. Transl.)(Scroll down to the second last paragraph)@doclloyd: Record in Hi-SP, upload it, export it as a wave file, you can convert it then into anything you want.With dbPoweramp-Converter, you can convert it then into anything you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted May 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 Bummer. Oh well. Thanks for the update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVickers Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 Bummer. Oh well. Thanks for the update.←Don't be too bummed out. Recording in Hi-SP and then converting to MP3 doesn't sound bad at all (just a little time consuming). I do this for my church every week, but actually post at 16kbps mono to save on hosting space. It sounds mashed for sure, but it's all spoken word and completely understandable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 I frequently record speech in Hi-SP (nearly 8 hours on a 1GB disc), upload and automatically convert to .wav in SonicStage 3.0 and and then convert .wav to .mp3 with dbpoweramp (or whatever other converter you want to use). It's just one more step than it ideally should be, and if you convert to 128 kbps mp3 you will have excellent fidelity for speech. MAVickers is getting mashed sound from the extremely low bitrate of 16 kbps, not from the process. MD will do your job fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 er so one cant record mp3 directly?either their engineers or their marketing people fucked up.i wonder, if one buys a 2nd gen hi-md player/recorder based on the statement that it can record mp3 and it dont can you then get a refund? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefbeef Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 Does this mean that the only big change since 1st generation is the ability for SonicStage to convert to MP3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVickers Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 Does this mean that the only big change since 1st generation is the ability for SonicStage to convert to MP3?←It can convert to MP3 as well as play the MP3s you already have, and it plays them natively on the unit now without having to convert them into ATRAC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 but for some oddball (drm) reason have to obfuscate em so that you cant just copy em of the hi-md...well, lets see what the buffalo player can manage (if its more then a smokescreen). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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