Topic: Micro SDHC Memory cards??

[celtic]

Hi,
I recently bought a Zoom H1 Recorder and pair of mics and have taped two shows, so far. One at 24/96 and one at 24/48. I'am using a 4gb Samsung Micro SDHC Memory card. For some reason when the recording reachs the 2gb file size, it creates a second file. Which means I have one file with most of the show on it and a second file with one or two or part of song on it. Any ideas why this is happening, is it my Zoom H1 recorder or is it the memory card??

[page]

Hi,
I recently bought a Zoom H1 Recorder and pair of mics and have taped two shows, so far. One at 24/96 and one at 24/48. I'am using a 4gb Samsung Micro SDHC Memory card. For some reason when the recording reachs the 2gb file size, it creates a second file. Which means I have one file with most of the show on it and a second file with one or two or part of song on it. Any ideas why this is happening, is it my Zoom H1 recorder or is it the memory card??

many recorders do a split around 2gb because of an older Windows file size limitation. Many recorders that do this don't lose anything during the split, but its on a model by model basis. Doing some research here will answer that question.

Just combine the files in your favorite audio editor.

[celtic]

Hi,
I recently bought a Zoom H1 Recorder and pair of mics and have taped two shows, so far. One at 24/96 and one at 24/48. I'am using a 4gb Samsung Micro SDHC Memory card. For some reason when the recording reachs the 2gb file size, it creates a second file. Which means I have one file with most of the show on it and a second file with one or two or part of song on it. Any ideas why this is happening, is it my Zoom H1 recorder or is it the memory card??

many recorders do a split around 2gb because of an older Windows file size limitation. Many recorders that do this don't lose anything during the split, but its on a model by model basis. Doing some research here will answer that question.

Just combine the files in your favorite audio editor.

Ok, On the two recordings I've made so far. Nothing of the recordings are missing because of the split. I was really just curious as to why this was happening. Now I know, thanks, page.

[kylieshotpants]

Hi

I own the same recorder as you and can confirm that it splits at 2gb as standard,

I started a topic on this very subject

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=144409.0

[rastasean]

It does suck that the limitation is at 2 gigs when FAt32 max is 4 gigs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32#FAT32

[TimeBandit]

Yes a recorder with NTFS would be brilliant. 

But the file limit is some thing of roll back compatibility to FAT16 (max. size = 2 GB) and to older DAW software which can handle only max. size of 2 GB of a Wave file - even ran on newer workstations.

[aaronji]

^^^  There are definitely a few recorders which will record up to the 4 GB FAT32 max.  The Marantz PMD620 and PMD661 can do it.  There are probably others, but I am sure about those two.

[F.O.Bean]

^^^  There are definitely a few recorders which will record up to the 4 GB FAT32 max.  The Marantz PMD620 and PMD661 can do it.  There are probably others, but I am sure about those two.

7xx series

[rastasean]

I think the fr-2le can do that as well. I'll see if I can find a source to prove it.


This item selects the maximum audio file size between 2 GB and 4 GB (the default is 2 GB).

page 105 of the manual found here: fr2le_owners_manual.pdf