There is no clear winner. To record voice, Resco is the better, but it's commercial (unlike NoteM) and consumes far more battery. NoteM, on the other hand, is free, has a much better MP3 encoder than Resco, consumes less power but likes crashing and can only make really good recordings at at least 56 kbps, while Resco can make qgood-quality recordings t 19 kbps. You itself have to consider and compare the pro's and the cons of the two apps to decide between them.
Gerard Samija has a pretty good writeup of Notem over at pocketnow.com, search the articles or forums there.
The type of audio you want to record can make a difference as well. Are you talking lectures or concerts?
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is either of them CLEARLY better than the other? mostly in terms of space saving
Hello, All. To me, the main feature that NoteM lacks is the ability to pause recordings. This is very important to me, because I want to use voice recordings to record a quick memo to myself that I will type in later, but I often have to stop and think during the recording. Using the built-in recorder, or even NoteM, you have to stop that recording and make a new one when you continue.
Furthermore, the developer of NoteM's web site seems to have disappeared, so I cannot contact them to ask for this "wish list" item.
I have not tried Resco yet, but I heard that it could pause recordings, so I plan to try it out. That is worth the money, to me, although I wish NoteM could add that feature (or become open-sourced so that I could add it! ).
I just ran across another program that might work: Vito SoundExplorer 2005. It is much more than just a voice recorder, so may be a better value for $25. But, I don't know if it can pause recordings.
I just ran across another program that might work: Vito SoundExplorer 2005. It is much more than just a voice recorder, so may be a better value for $25. But, I don't know if it can pause recordings.
Please note that the VITO SoundExplorer, technically, isn't very good, particularly battery life-wise.
I had used NoteM for a long, long time, but the recent disappearance of NoteM's download site made me think it was time to look into others more seriously. Not that NoteM works any less well, only that it seems unlikely it will be maintained to support WM5, and sooner or later this X5 is going to die on me.
So I grabbed a copy of Resco Audio Recorder and have been trying it for a couple of weeks. The thing really is rather nice, once it's correctly configured to match the (weak) recording potential of the X5 running WM2003. Because audio driver support is so buggy on this device with this OS, the Voice/mono/56kbps recording in MP3 is as high quality as I can use. Anything more just doesn't work.
Recording to SD is easy, and with about 150MB or so free I have over 20 hours of recording time available, according to Audio Recorder. Pausing is a very nice feature, with mapped button functions especially. They've got the far-right button mapping pointing to an iTask button, not the same as Dell's mapping, and so it seems I cannot make Record/Pause/Stop work on that one. But mapping to the email button works fine. A quick press for pause, another to re-start recording in the same file, a long press to stop. Easy stuff. The button clicks are irritating, but inevitable, with the mic being embedded in the PPC body. A unit with an external wired mic would be nice.
Recording with this on my old iPAQ 3835 with a (PocketPCTechs added) mic jack and a small passive mic works 'clicklessly' which is a lot nicer. Makes pausing seamless. Very handy for editing in realtime. Because of that iPAQ's problems with bad SD support I find it better to record to main memory, but there's lots of that as I keep about 45MB free on the old thing... it's not my main unit, so no need for tonnes of software. Mostly use it for my FlyCam and for recording.
So though it's early going yet, as I've not had a lot of spare time this summer for PPC stuff, I'm happy to report that I very much like Resco's recording application. Rather well made.
iPlay. Using a 5-year-old iPaq (iPAQ 3650 w/2002) it can easily record to a spinning 1 GB microdrive at a SR of 44100Hz (up/)to a 128 kbps mp3. It just loafs along, not even breaking a sweat. It uses cache so even MD-use is efficient (seldom spins). Here's a general pic (if it shows up). Didn't show -- for some reason there's a 450 pixel limit here. And the pages don't work at all if you have jscript enabled but activex disabled.
iPlay. Using a 5-year-old iPaq (iPAQ 3650 w/2002) it can easily record to a spinning 1 GB microdrive at a SR of 44100Hz (up/)to a 128 kbps mp3. It just loafs along, not even breaking a sweat. It uses cache so even MD-use is efficient (seldom spins). Here's a general pic (if it shows up). Didn't show -- for some reason there's a 450 pixel limit here. And the pages don't work at all if you have jscript enabled but activex disabled.
Congrats, your stuff really rocks. Will include it in my next roundup of sound recorder apps.
One more significant element for comparison between any other recording application and NoteM: conversion from WAV to MP3 or MP3 to WAV. I had uninstalled NoteM a while back, as Resco just seemed to be doing the job rather nicely for me. Then yesterday I downloaded a 26MB WAV file in Pocket IE (accellerated recording of sounds generated inside an Antarctic iceberg) and thought to convert it to a much smaller MP3. As Homer says: D'oh!! Without NoteM installed I have no way to do this, what was a simple operation in NoteM.
Of course I can easily use an SD reader with my PC and do the conversion with LAME, but I don't like using PCs... sigh. It'd be nice if someone would develop a tidy, fast, multi-format conversion software for Windows Mobile devices.
Please note that the VITO SoundExplorer, technically, isn't very good, particularly battery life-wise.
..and they don't seem to be willing to fix device specific issues. I realise this is a Dell forum ( I have an x50V) but this program has incompatability issues on my HP hx4700 so I uninstalled it...
..and they don't seem to be willing to fix device specific issues. I realise this is a Dell forum ( I have an x50V) but this program has incompatability issues on my HP hx4700 so I uninstalled it...
Yup, the ViTO app does have some issues - particularly the VAS module with WM2003+.
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