Olympus has quite a pedigree in the compact, tapeless voice recorder market, yet the introduction of the LS-10 Linear PCM is a distinct departure from all this.
While both types of recorder share the ability to easily transfer audio files to computer over USB, the LS-10 takes itself very seriously, proffering uncompressed audio …
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?
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Olympus has quite a pedigree in the compact, tapeless voice recorder market, yet the introduction of the LS-10 Linear PCM is a distinct departure from all this. While both types of recorder share the ability to easily transfer audio files to computer over USB, the LS-10 takes itself very seriously, proffering uncompressed audio …
Mono vs Stereo
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.
Recording your entire life
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?
FLAC
With its pretensions for quality, why on earth doesn't it have FLAC? Same as uncompressed .wav, but approx. three times the capacity!
FLAC Flack
The amount of CPU power required to do real-time FLAC processing would flatten the batteries unfeasibly quickly.
What these devices need...
...is some bundled software that transcribes your dictation. Unless I'm missing something none of them do?
@ FLAC Flack
What - more processing required than encoding to MP3 or (especially) WMA?