>>I shudder to think of what such sound, after going through that low of bit rate, and that high data compression would sound like.
A CD holds 650MB of data. It has the capablity to hold 74 minutes of stereo sound at 44.1k 16 bit. Now, Clique holds 6.15% of CD capacity, so if you recorded CD quality sound to Clique, it would hold approx. 4.5 minutes stereo, or 9 minutes of mono sound.
9 minutes of mono sound for $10? That's not a very good deal.<
Silly Rocky -
We're talking about recording the spoken word, for the purposes of note taking. As long as you can understand the recording, it really doesn't matter what the quality is. 16-bit recording at 44.1KHz would be overkill.
You could definitely get 2 + hours of mono, 8-bit, 11KHz sampling rate recording onto a clik! disk.
And the recording software doesn't need to be as complex as RecordIt. There are digital telephone answering machines today, built around chips which would work nicely for a digital note recording machine.
The advantage of such a machine, which could very well make it worth a slightly higher cost for many buyers, is that you could almost instantly access any part of the recording, without having to fast-forward or rewind the tape for minutes.
Sounds like a fine idea to me.
- Allen |
