From: David McIntyre <plughie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:29:52 -0800

The 5th gen iPod (video) supports 44.1KHz recording to WAV and the Apple
lossless encoder. Hard to beat that level of sound quality. I'm waiting for
the line-in adapter, or SPDIF.

On 11/24/05, Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure the guys currently porting rockbox to the iPods will
> do what they can to get all sound formats and video and so on running
> on the iPod as well
> Apple sells a microphone for the iPod as well to record stuff.
>
> On 11/24/05, ian douglas <id_at_w98.us> wrote:
> > Not to start any kind of flame war, but I suppose the thought it the
> > ipod being "more advanced" is a relative point of view. The iRiver H300
> > series has an FM tuner, can play back video, play many more music
> > formats than the iPod, internal or external microphone/line-in
> > capability, etc. All long before Apple had anything on the market
> > capable of such things.
> >
> > Just my $0.02. But then, I'm an open source nut, and find .ogg files
> > sound much better at similar bitrates than other encoding formats, which
> > none of Apple's products support (to my knowledge), so I'll stick with
> > my H320 for now.
>
>

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Received on 2005-11-29