Josh Bancroft recorded his TinyPodcast at a McDonald’s using his Dell Axim x50v and a $20 audio recording application. It sounds pretty darned good, much better than I imagined. I turned around and tried to use mine to do the same, but found that the background noise in my office was audible, in fact, distracting. I suppose if I’m going to podcast with my PDA, I’ll have to find a room with less machine noise.
Check out his podcast though. Very nice.
Update: Josh found this post, and posted a nice comment. Check it out.
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Glad you like the podcast. I’m continually suprised by the audio quality of the built in mic on the Axim x50v. Everything I’ve recorded on it, even in noisy environments (I was in the play area of a McDonalds, for crying out loud! 🙂 has come out sounding great. It really is the podcaster’s best friend. Part of the reason I got the x50v (besides it’s gorgeous screen!) is the fact that it’s so podcaster friendly. The headphone jack will accept an external mic (with the right adapter cable), and the Bluetooth stack supports the Headset/Handsfree profiles (rare in a non-Phone Edition device), so I can even record using my Bluetooth headset (but the quality this way isn’t the greatest). The awesome built-in mic was almost a bonus, but a very welcome one, indeed.
I also love Resco Audio Explorer, the app I’m using to record straight to MP3. If anyone was curious, the settings I most often use are 22050KHz sample rate, 16 bits per sample, and, um, whatever MP3 “quality” setting (i think 2 of 5) makes the final MP3 come out at 56Kbps. Works great, and takes up about 25 MB/hour. With my 1GB SD card, I could record literally for days. 🙂
Thanks again for the link, and keep listening to the podcast!
Josh Bancroft
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