December 25, 2005

• it works, my brother-in-law just showed me this program a few weeks ago. dvd to i-pod in minutes, pretty sweet...if your into that sort of thing
• oh, and www.ilounge.com is pretty informative in these sort of matters.
• That is a great tutorial for mac's but what about us poor windows users?
• from the handbrake website> HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. There is no Windows version of HandBrake. sorry. windows no work-e work-e.
• I observed an iPod trick recently where a singer was recording an opera rehearsal via a microphone and thingy she'd attached to her iPod. Do any monkeys have a clue what the thingy was, and whether you can get decent sound quality that way?
• the thingy might have been a griffin or a belkin recorder, but i think there are others on the market. reviews of the griffin and belkin: http://www.macworld.com/2004/08/reviews/ipodvoicerecorders/ the quality is probably not much better than you'll get recording with a standard microphone onto a minidisc or carbon tape.
• 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod
• now we have entered my realm. live recording on an ipod is shaky at best. yes, there are several microphone plug-ins for the i-pod(griffin technology i-talk comes to mind). most of these are intended for voice recording(think meetings/memos to self, etc.). in order to get better sound quality you'd have to use a "phantom power supply" and some quality mics, this works great w/ minidisc and dats, and even some other mp3 players. with the ipod, you are restricted to a certain compression rate, so you can only go so far in respect to quality of recording...there are ways to "hack" the pod and get it to record at a higher khz rating, but from what i hear this is iffy. i believe i read someplace that some pods only record in mono...could be wrong though. so in short, if you want to record a meeting or voice memos, your just an accesory away...but if your looking to make a *quality* bootleg of your favorite band...you'll want to look elsewhere(minidisc/dat/edirol hard-drive recorder).
• sorry-edirol is flash based, not hard-drive based, my bad.
• Compact flash is better than hard drive. No moving parts to create unwanted sound when you are using the built-in mikes. I want an Edirol R-1 very badly. Back to iPods. It is my understanding that the latest versions (5th generation, I believe?) no longer have the jack in the top to accept devices like the Griffin iTalk (etc.) I think this is a shame believe that it will probably be back in a future version.
• Cool! Thank you clouds, roryk and mecurious. Guess I'll be sticking to my minidisc for now.