Why am I using a Mini-Disc recorder AND a Samsung Yepp together?
The biggest reason is that the Samsung Yepp can record straight to MP3 at 128 kbps. This removes several time consuming steps. I could record high quality audio on the Sony Mini-Disc recorder, but to put this audio on the Internet I would need to digitize the analog audio in real time. I’d end up with a large uncompressed audio file, such as a WAV or AIFF. In other words if the podcast I made was thirty minutes long I would have to spend about another hour rerecording it to a computer hard drive and encoding/duplicating/compressing the master audio file to a MP3. There is software that can record straight to MP3 but the encoding process requires a lot of CPU cycles and RAM. If your computer can’t provide this power errors can occur in your MP3 file resulting in skips or software crashes. Unfortunatly the Samsung Yepp only has a 1/32″ line in. The signal required for this device to record is approximatly -20 dBu. Most inexpensive microphones can not provide this power. Thus the micropho
