Topic: iriver h1xx rockbox recording menu added

[Weazel]

iRiver: Initial support for wav-recording in recording menu. Supports mic/line-in (and radio), monitor mode, time-splitting (and byte-splitting), pause/resume etc. Things todo: Prerecording, peakmeter (should be simple), frequency other than 44.1 kHz, etc.

http://www.rockbox.org/

[kuba]

I taped a show yesterday with iRiver H120 on RockBox (CVS 2005-11-18). It worked perfectly. 1 hour 40 minutes of flawless recording and it ate only 20% of the battery. Great. 48kHz + peakmeters and I don't want to stealth with anything else.

[Weazel]

ah your here too.

yes pretty cool i installed the new daily builth firmware of today, the hold button is fixxed now while recording.
i'm going to test batery live with a fully charged battery.

rockbox rules!  no more glitches and 2 gig filesize with continues recording in a new file.

now wait for the  48/16 and big ass peak meters. en spdif in/out and it's a dream recorder.

i wonder if they could make a realtime bass roll of setting in it. that would be cool too.

what gain u used? 6 or 9 db? or higher? do you use a batterybox or the internal plugin power on the line in?

[timP]

is this all analog in or optical?



wish I hadn't fried my 120 by feeding it 12v instead of the 5v is needs with a multi plug


anyone know if it has a fuse of any sort, or any hope of saving it?

[kuba]

ah your here too.

what gain u used? 6 or 9 db? or higher? do you use a batterybox or the internal plugin power on the line in?

I'm everywhere 

diy 9V battery box -> line-in, 0dB gain

is this all analog in or optical?

wish I hadn't fried my 120 by feeding it 12v instead of the 5v is needs with a multi plug

anyone know if it has a fuse of any sort, or any hope of saving it?

Try forums at misticriver.net

[it-goes-to-eleven]

The rockbox guys kick ass. I use it on my Archos FM recorder.. Though I don't record with that device anymore.  They've been trying to get it to record WAV for a Long time but haven't been able to get the specs. Don't know if there has been progress in the past 4-5 months..

How is the noise floor on the iRiver?

[Weazel]

i recorded a sililent wav form and anylysed it in wavlab, i couldn't discover any peaks.

i realy love rockbox besides it can play all the lossless codecs. it can record good too and even 48/16 is in the works. it's also great course it's open source the people who make rockbox really listen to there users.

[kuba]

How is the noise floor on the iRiver?

I don't remember exact numbers, but I think it's -85 with no device plugged in and -80 with my AT831 + batt. box @ 0dB gain (I don't know whether the mics don't produce some extra noise when picking something else then silence).

[Weazel]

well i tested battery life while recording today.

i had gain on 6 db and the mics in the line in with it's internal plugin power.

believe it or not i had 538 minutes wich is almost 9 hours recording time on a fully charged battery!!

twice as much as the original firmware

[whatboutbob]

hehe...i ran on over here to share the news and y'all had beaten me to it.

oh, and I get a very similar noise floor to Weazel with AT853 > SPSB6.

the recent addition of shn playback is pretty handy too...

[kuba]

believe it or not i had 538 minutes wich is almost 9 hours recording time on a fully charged battery!!

Holy crap! 

Upgraded battery or additional external battery pack would give even more impressive results.

[whatboutbob]

i'll run a battery test starting tonight on a H120 with a 2200mAh 'ipod' batt...

Weazel: it autosplits every ~2gb, right?  Can't see any settings for it so I assume it happens automagically...

[kuba]

i'll run a battery test starting tonight on a H120 with a 2200mAh 'ipod' batt...

Weazel: it autosplits every ~2gb, right?  Can't see any settings for it so I assume it happens automagically...

Yes it does automatically.

[Popmarter]

sounds cool, i am looking for mp3 player and recorder for a while. i was wondering, can you put some pics online from what the levels look like?

[whatboutbob]

popmarter: Recording peakmeters haven't been implemented yet.  The rockbox firmware is still very much a work in progress, though getting closer to the "finished" product every day.

My battery test is still running...13 hours and going strong.  I'm guessing it'll run for ~15 hours.