Rockbox Technical Forums
Support and General Use => Recording => Topic started by: ericzang on May 13, 2006, 01:51:57 PM
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Is there a way to "mark tracks" while recording? For example, rather than having a long continuous recording session stored as one file (rec_001), I would like to be able to press something while recording so that at the moment of the press, that point forward is now stored as another file name (rec_002).
Thanks, couldn't find this feature in my searchings.
Eric
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not yet, and it's a nice tip :)
feel free to put it in tracker as a feature request (all platforms, recording)
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Here's a patch to do just that...
The new keys are:
Play/pause ---> Record/Pause
Record ---> Record/new filename
seems to work very nicely...no gaps... Please give it a test... :)
Only implemented for irivers at the mo....not sure about the buttons to use on other units but would be very easy to put in. Any suggestions?
manualrecordingsplit.patch (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.scarratt/Rockbox/manualrecordingsplit.patch)
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I like this! I want it!
I can't compile myself, but when the freeze is over maybe...
I also think that play/pause is better (like in your patch) for starting/pausing the recording, but others might (?) consider it bad to change the use of the keys....
So who's gonna make me a (post recording) wav file splitter? :-)
I have to get really bored this summer to get into programming... :-/
Yeah I know. It's a shame.
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I'll put it in my personal build soon...(look in the REP thread HERE (http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2513.0) for info about when I do)
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I likes. Nice work Mmmm.
I've tested about 20 short file-splits (optical sine wave). All perfect seamless.
Just testing longer splits now...and splits during buffer writes...
edit: Longer file splits (after ~1hr) and splitting during buffer-writes seem to work perfectly.
The button-mapping makes sense to me. Now if we could just get a long press of the rec button to go from the wps/file screen to the recording screen... *nudge* :-)
Sorry to hijack...but this is a little on subject at least. Would anyone else apart from me find it useful to have the name of the file currently being recorded listed on the recording screen? I think it would make the file-split process a little more...err...transparent. Can't see how it would fit on the remote screen, but since Mmmm pointed out the interference it causes, I won't be using that to record any more. :-( ...and apart from that it doesn't make sense to not have something just because it wouldn' fit on a much smaller secondary screen...
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I likes. Nice work Mmmm.
I've tested about 20 short file-splits (optical sine wave). All perfect seamless.
Just testing longer splits now...and splits during buffer writes...
edit: Longer file splits (after ~1hr) and splitting during buffer-writes seem to work perfectly.
Excellent, thanks for testing whatboutbob...
The button-mapping makes sense to me. Now if we could just get a long press of the rec button to go from the wps/file screen to the recording screen... *nudge* :-)
Sorry to hijack...but this is a little on subject at least. Would anyone else apart from me find it useful to have the name of the file currently being recorded listed on the recording screen? I think it would make the file-split process a little more...err...transparent. Can't see how it would fit on the remote screen, but since Mmmm pointed out the interference it causes, I won't be using that to record any more. :-( ...and apart from that it doesn't make sense to not have something just because it wouldn' fit on a much smaller secondary screen...
I agree...I'll look into putting that info in later... I think it would look best just above the peakmeter, do you agree?
Hmmm have to think about what to do about the remote display though, it would be a pain to have seperate positions for everything on the remote and main unit...
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The button-mapping makes sense to me. Now if we could just get a long press of the rec button to go from the wps/file screen to the recording screen... *nudge* :-)
x2!
And if anyone decides to do a patch for this, please consider having Play+Rec automatically go to the recording screen AND start recording.
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I agree...I'll look into putting that info in later... I think it would look best just above the peakmeter, do you agree?
Hmmm have to think about what to do about the remote display though, it would be a pain to have seperate positions for everything on the remote and main unit...
I wouldn't have a problem with having the filename at the bottom of the screen. I don't think it has to be super-prominent....just there somewhere. That may make your life easier with the remote then. Alternatively, there's space next to the filesize...but that's prolly crazy talk.
And if anyone decides to do a patch for this, please consider having Play+Rec automatically go to the recording screen AND start recording.
Oooh...I like that.
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Yeah, I've suggested it before, and I should probably file a feature request. It should be a very intuitive button combination, considering that it's the way that tape recorders, VCRs, etc. have worked for decades.
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Seconded! File that feature request! Hehehe
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Awesome, thanks very much Mmmmm! I also think all the above suggestions are great ideas too.
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Cor....well I've managed to get the filename above the peakmeter, and it checks the screensize too, if the screen is big enough it will move everything down a bit (meaning the remote doesn't display the filename). This also makes it friendly to other targets! yippee...
I also had to muck about with the filename because it is stored as the whole path (ie. /recordings/rec_0001.wav) but I only want the filename part, so just check that it is displaying correctly for all the different paths you all have out there.
This was definitely harder than it looked! :D
Just look at the difference between the sizes of the two patches!
manualrecordingsplitfilename.patch (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.scarratt/Rockbox/manualrecordingsplitfilename.patch)
As for the button assignment requests I may look into that another day as it is quite seperate from this patch....Good ideas though! :)
EDIT: oh and Llorean there seems to be somthing up with the file uploader on the forum...I think it's full or something!
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Seconded! File that feature request! Hehehe
Request filed!
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Thanks Febs.
I prolly won't be able to test the new patch until the weekend...so if someone else wants to step up feel free. :-)
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If you want to test but cant patch/compile then the build in my sig contains this patch among other things!
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What a marvelous concept, that hopefully may work itself into the official build!
:)
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Hi,
thank you for all your work within this project. I've observed it for a year and now I'm using it, because of it's recording features. So the feature discussed in this thread I was long waiting for, because sometimes I record a meeting and I had the problem to find the point when the next person began to talk. Now I can simply press the record button. But this should be combined with the prerecord function, so that the split could be for example 5 seconds (prerecord time) before I pressed the record button. I guess you already use the buffer for the time the recorder takes to close the file and to open a new one and then store the buffer to the new file.
I have question to a different topic:
In IRivers Firmware I was able immediately hear the just recorded and finalized file by pressing the play button (within record modus). In Rockbox I have to leave the recording modus and seek the file in it's subdir and the play it (At least 3 klicks). After that I have to return to the record modus witch takes 7 klicks) Is there a shorter way?
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Is this included in the file that is in your link ?
Here's a patch to do just that...
The new keys are:
Play/pause ---> Record/Pause
Record ---> Record/new filename
seems to work very nicely...no gaps... Please give it a test... :)
Only implemented for irivers at the mo....not sure about the buttons to use on other units but would be very easy to put in. Any suggestions?
manualrecordingsplit.patch (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.scarratt/Rockbox/manualrecordingsplit.patch)
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I committed this patch so it is now in all builds! :)
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Yay! Thanks Mmmm. ;D
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This really is great--a nice way to digitize one's LP records easily. All you need to do is rename the resulting files, even using The Godfather or another db-accessing program. This is one of the reasons why I got the iHP-140 (now 160).
Thanks!