ipod recording + linux

in response to praveen and ryan's discussion on convergence in the worlds of portable recording... the new 5th generation iPod does indeed have hardware capable of high-quality recording... actually, previous generations have had that capability as well, but Apple never announced software support for it. The difference this go-around is that Apple has announced on one of their sites that the new iPod supports up to 16-bit 44.1 kHz 'voice memo' recording... I haven't heard the rumor that Praveen mentioned that Apple is waiting to release their own recording device (it wouldn't surprise me though), but I know that Belkin has at least announced one product to be shipping in March or April, the tunetalk stereo (link to press release)... and i want it i want it i want it. i'm sure many other companies are working on the same...

and for those of you who own 3rd generation and 4th generation ipods and want to have a little fun, have you heard of the ipodlinux project? some enterprising geeks with too much time on their hands have actually gotten Linux to run on the ipod, enabling such things as high-quality recording and video playback on earlier generations and even the nano. someone even ported Doom to the ipod. And it's all open-source so if you're feeling enterprising as well you could even roll your own software for it!

...what, none of you have too much time on your hands?