Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

[Kevin D. Clark]

Arc Riley writes:

> The sandisk is a much better deal.
> 
> 2gigs flash for just $30 *and* has a microSDHC slot.  Mounts as a standard
> USB drive.  Small, bright OLED screen, and you can dual purpose it to play
> all your .ogg and .flac files.
> 
> "downside" is voice recording only works to .wav - you can encode from there
> on your computer easily enough.

I've got some sort of SanDisk Clip right next to me right now and I
can confirm that it records voice to WAV files:

  $ file /media/flash/RECORD/VOICE/VORC001.WAV 
  /media/flash/RECORD/VOICE/VORC001.WAV: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 24000 Hz

I just listened to a voice recording that I made with the thing and
the quality was acceptable to me.

My Clip is a 4GB $50 model.  It works pretty well.  The only downside
I can report with the thing is that every 3-4 months it seems to
suffer a failure when I mount the thing that causes every single song
that I wrote onto the thing to disappear.  This is when I am glad that
I made backups.

It also works very well with my favorite ripping tool, Cretin
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cretin/) .

Regards,

--kevin
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