Going from stereo to mono only doubles the recording time if you are using an uncompressed format. The WMA format uses the high correlation between the two channels to achieve some of its compression. Therefore you won't get as much of a gain by going for mono.
I'd like to record daily life for a few weeks, for fun and profit (no profit, actually), but these things seem to need their batteries changing after only a few hours. Are there similar devices whose charge will last days or weeks?
Logitech Harmony ONE Advanced Universal Remote
Logitech Harmony 1100 Remote Control
Logitech Harmony 700 Universal Remote (LCD, 6 Devices)
Logitech Harmony 900 Universal Remote (LCD Touch Screen, Macro Control, 15 Devices)
Panasonic DMW-BCG10 Replacement Battery
Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM recorder
Ross Ryles
Mono vs Stereo #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:38 GMT
Going from stereo to mono only doubles the recording time if you are using an uncompressed format. The WMA format uses the high correlation between the two channels to achieve some of its compression. Therefore you won't get as much of a gain by going for mono.
Anonymous Coward
Recording your entire life #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:52 GMT
I'd like to record daily life for a few weeks, for fun and profit (no profit, actually), but these things seem to need their batteries changing after only a few hours. Are there similar devices whose charge will last days or weeks?
Anonymous Coward
FLAC #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 20:10 GMT
With its pretensions for quality, why on earth doesn't it have FLAC? Same as uncompressed .wav, but approx. three times the capacity!
Paul Randle
FLAC Flack #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 08:55 GMT
The amount of CPU power required to do real-time FLAC processing would flatten the batteries unfeasibly quickly.
Alex Walsh
What these devices need... #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 08:55 GMT
...is some bundled software that transcribes your dictation. Unless I'm missing something none of them do?
Anonymous Coward
@ FLAC Flack #
Posted Thursday 25th September 2008 10:19 GMT
What - more processing required than encoding to MP3 or (especially) WMA?