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mrchin · May 21, 2003, 09:50 AM

My apoligies if anyone's already stated this...

But, it seems that either now, or in the near future we will have recording capabilities in the new v3 ipods.

If anyone remembers or knows about the self diagnostics you can run on the iPods. This new model has this as well but with a few new testing options. One of these, line F, is a Line Rec test. Starting the test brings up a Line In Recording test, which once finished, plays back the tested recording. Of course, we don't have any hardware to plug in to it unless a stand alone analog mic would work?

Appleman · May 21, 2003, 10:04 AM

Just received my new 30 GB iPod.
So how do you test it? How does this recording stuff works?

KaosDG · May 21, 2003, 10:09 AM

I bet there are line-in/mic-in pins on the new dock connector, somewhere.

It has a lot more pins than firewire, thats for sure.

(plus the dock itself has Line-Out, so we know there is a way to pump line-level audio OUT of the dock port)

atarirat · May 21, 2003, 10:50 AM

it's easier than you think. . .plug in your earbuds, run the test and when it says record speak into your left earbud.

You'll be happy you did. There is an entire article about it over at ipoding.com

GORDYmac · May 21, 2003, 01:00 PM

Speak fast, it's only 6 seconds I believe.

MilkmanDan · May 21, 2003, 03:47 PM

Recording is one of the most requested features for iPods. All the more reason to upgrade my old 10 Gig to a new 15 Gig. Great for bootleging live concerts! (Joke people, joke)

dettociao · May 21, 2003, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Recording is one of the most requested features for iPods. All the more reason to upgrade my old 10 Gig to a new 15 Gig. Great for bootleging live concerts! (Joke people, joke)

bah, if you pay $45 you're entitled to record a concert. it's not bootlegging, it's live recording.

djjava · May 22, 2003, 12:38 PM

Originally posted by dettociao:
bah, if you pay $45 you're entitled to record a concert. it's not bootlegging, it's live recording.

it not bootlegging, it's buying a $45 souvenier...creating long lasting memory.

ThisGuy · Jul 30, 2003, 09:32 AM

Has anybody heard anything else regarding this feature? I would live for this to be implemented sometime in the near future.

WJMoore · Jul 31, 2003, 01:17 AM

The hardware obviously supports recording, if someone could get the [url=http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/]Linux on iPod[url] project to work on the new iPods we might be one step closer :-)

WM

WJMoore · Jul 31, 2003, 01:24 AM

dp, 2nd one in 2 days

GORDYmac · Jul 31, 2003, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by dettociao:
...it's not bootlegging, it's live recording.

Acually, the term bootlegging referred to people recording concerts with a tape recorder (back in the 70's). So, acutally, what you're reffing to is classic bootlegging, and just as illegal.