Actually, I was reading here a couple of days ago, and I can’t remember where it was, that there’s a new format now being rolled out that’s superior to FLAC in both file size and quality. Apparently, one can save 24-bit audio at very high sample rates, without losing quality, in smaller files than even uncompressed FLAC. I’ll try and dig that article out again, as it’s an interesting read.
======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[email protected]> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: Twitter: @maciosaccess • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 27 Mar 2018, at 14:02, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: Hi! I was planning to buy an Olympus LS-14 recorder however these devices are no longer available it seems so I'm offered the Olympus LS-P4 as a replacement recorder. I don't know much about the unit so I'll be most interested to see the recorder when it arrives after Easter having accepted the offer of the swap for for the LS-14 in my order. I do know a couple of things which are worth noting and the first is that the P4 has Bluetooth capabilities. What these capabilities actually offer the recorder remains to be seen, can the recorder be controlled from an iPhone or perhaps the recorder can output the audio to Bluetooth speakers or perhaps both if I'm lucky. The P4 can also use the FLAC audio format when recording and this is the first I've heard of FLAC being accommodated in a portable device. I was speaking to an audio engineer earlier today and he said that usually FLAC was left to a computer or similar given that quite a bit of processing power is involved creating and recording FLAC so perhaps Olympus are using a new more powerful chip. Anyway having FLAC on a portable recorder means that we now have the facilities to record in a compressed mode to save file space on a SD card without losing any audio quality, that's something that MP3 wouldn't allow. The LS-P4 has the voice guideance feature as did the LS-14. I already use a couple of Olympus recorders here including the widely regarded LS-100 and the classinc DM4. -- ********** "A dog is a good thing to have around a house and so is a fence" ********** ------------------------------ This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been scanned by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should not, however, be viewed as a substitution for your own security strategy. We assume no culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise, for any compromise to your systems as a result of opening any post to this group. Suffice it to say that we remain vigilant within the boundaries of reason. We strongly urge you to do likewise! You have been warned!!! You can find an RSS listing of all posts to this group at: <https://mail.mac-access.net:7025/list/[email protected]> or at: <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&[email protected]> To encourage your friends to join this group, first accept our thanks for spreading the word. Then, have them send a message to the list processing engine at: <[email protected]> To toggle on/off Digest (batch) mode for this group, please send a blank message to: <[email protected]> To leave the group, please send a blank message to: <[email protected]>. To contact the support address for this group, please write to: [email protected]> ------------------------------
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