Recording on your ipod?

Seems to be true:

“apple cripples recording on an ipod so belkin and griffin then have to sell us add-on devices for over $50 that can only record at 8khz, which is all pretty shitty. apparently (the rumor is) apple does this so people don’t use their ipods to record stuff they think we shouldn’t, like concerts, whatever.”

Read more: how-to record on your ipod (for free)

By m-c, December 30 2004 | Apple & OS X 

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  1. Francois on December 29th, 2004 1:59 pm

    Hi M-C,

    I’m writing this from the Apple Store in Miami, I just talked with a Mac Genius at the store’s Genius Bar. He told me that the iMic doesn’t do sh*t, it’s just for laptops that don’t have an input. It won’t be better than the pb input. He told be it’s because the mic you’re using ( I got the same issue with my mic ) is not amplified. You would have to get an external amplifier like the Griffin Powerwave which goes for 99$ here ! You could also try to get a self-amplified mic… I’m stuck with the same dilemna as you…

    I decided to wait before I get back to Montreal. Now I’m stuck with the mic I bought last week… I lost the invoice doh !

  2. Chris Campbell on December 30th, 2004 3:25 pm

    Hi M-C,

    I’ve just been going through the same thing. I have a MiniDisc that I can use to record with a microphone and while it records well with a microphone, I have to transfer the audio in real time through a mini to mini plug. I thought that I could just record with the microphone, but I had the same problem. The odd workaround is to use the MD recorder as an amplifier and plug it in and record the audio from the line out of the MD recorder with the microphone plugged in. The problem is that the input on the back of the PowerBook is line level, not mic level. So the signal has to be boosted through a pre-amp or a mixer. I have to check at a music store or Radio Shack to see if there is a cheap mixer that will convert the signal.

    The solution is to get a mixer/amplifier to convert the signal, but anything that would take a mic in and send a line out would work, so even an old casette recorder would work in a pinch.

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