oryoki2000 wrote:
> Dave Morrison wrote:
>
>
>>Where did you see the recording format
>>[of the new Belkin Voice Recorder]
>>specified as .wav?
>
>
> The info came from Belkin's web page:
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?
> Merchant_Id=3D&Section_Id=3D201526&pcount=3D&Product_Id=3D158384
>
> Note that Belkin's device is monaural only.
>
> WAV recording takes less processing power
> than ATRAC or MP3 since the digital data
> is not transformed before saving to disc.
>
> --oryoki
Actually, I think he asked about AIFF, which is the native uncompressed
soundfile format macs have used from the beginning. AIFF is essentially
the same audio encoding as CD. .wav differs in that windows uses the
reverse bit order of everybody else. If you are moving audio back and
forth between MD, computer and audio CD, the AIFF format will have less
steps.
I saw that .wav note in some of Apple's stuff recently on the iPod. I
thought at the time it might just be a dumb ad man. However, since
macintosh is no longer macintosh but unix with a thin candy coat, and
the people who are in charge are also not mac, but unix, it would not
surprise me for them to make such a change. Though they are going
against unix too, as AIFF is it's native format once you get past the
primitive .au format.
The macintosh is gone, all that's left at Apple is unix folks, the last
true mac OS was 9.0.4. The unix folks have no clue as to what the mac
was all about. They are back to we know best what a user needs (even
though they never actually do production work) It's much more windows
like now. And I don't mean that in a good way. Moving to OSX was a
setback in user functionality of at least 10 years for me. (which is
still better than windows, but not by as much)
I had one of these modern apple folks tell me just a few days ago that
there was no reason why the G5 should be designed to properly utilize
large, fast hard disks, it was "just a desktop computer". That was
justification for the G5 using such a slow hard disk compared to the 5
year old technology I use now. To say nothing about the current SCSI
standard for fast, a 15,000 rpm hard disk running Ultra 320 SCSI.
Walt
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