I'm not sure what this general time out is. I just started recording with my
iriver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Borus" <mborus@gmail.com>
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Recording screen on the iriver h320

> Hi Dave,
>
>> I'm using the recording screen on my iriver to monitor my recordings. I'm
>> wondering if there is a way to keep the microphone running without
>> actually
>> recording with the iriver. I'm actually using the microphone on the
>> iriver
>> to record on to another device. When I enter on the recording screen, I
>> can
>> hear the microphone through my headset, but it doesn't stay on all that
>> long
>> unless I press record.
>
> Do you have a general timeout for the Iriver activated?
> In that case the unit will shut down after x minutes of doing nothing.
> Otherwise I see no reason why the microphone should not stay
> active even if you do not record.
>
>> Also, when I record, I hear the disk drive spin up every so often. Does
>> anyone have a microphone that they use with their irivers to minimize
>> that
>> sound?
>
> If you place your external microphone close to the unit, it will "hear"
> the
> HD spin up. You can minimize that by placing the microphone away from
> the Iriver. In very quiet situations where this doesn't help, you
> should wrap the
> Iriver into something that blocks sound once the recording is started.
>
> Martin
>
Received on Thu Feb 9 09:11:44 2006