sounds great is relative, im not having the problem suruaz is having.
Awwww, come on, I was just pulling your string a bit
Shine is a nice little piece of software, no doubt about it. And, as I mentioned earlier, suruaZ's problem is not really related to shine but rather to the ROM/kernel in question, or so it seems.
[...] using the built in mic on my 5600, comparing the quality of the sharp voice recorder to the shine encoded mp3 I can tell no obvious diffrences, besides the fact I can record several hours of lectures using shine.. now If I was trying to sample a direct input or mebe with a better mic I might expect shine would sound far from "great", but for my very specific uses it performs admirably..[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
I'm quite sure it does. As I said, I think shine is a Good Thing.
I 'solved' the Sharp Voice Recorder's main shortcoming (i.e. the high data rate through the use of plain PCM .wav files for recording) using a combination of a few lines of C-Code that captures from the audio device to stdout, a shell script and speexenc, thus producing nice low bitrate .spx voice recordings.
Obviously with Speex being a voice codec, general audio quality will
not quite be the same as shine's, but for voice it's certainly more than acceptable, and at a much lower bitrate at that (it can go as low as 5-6 kBps while still producing amenable results). In the simplest case, speexdec will play back the resulting files, but other players usually will do as well (for me, lamip and vlc obviously come to mind [confused? Here's the blatant plug: I'm referring to [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11336]this[/url] and
this thread]).
For people interested in Speex, a look at
this thread might be of interest.
Eventually I will most likely move on to AMR though, once I manage to make the encoder run in realtime on the Z, mainly for reasons of convergence (modern-day mobile phones can play back AMR files and/or even send them using MMS [Multimedia Message Service]), even though I prefer the fact that Speex is an open, royalty- and patent-free codec.
Best regards,
Chris.
