Recording Feature; separating files manually while recording

[madoues]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum, although I've been using Rockbox on a Sansa e280 for about a year.

Please let me know if this feature already exist,  but I couldn't find any mention of it anywhere I looked.


What would be nice is when you have started recording, if you press the record button(ideally) or another button, a file would be created for the recording up to that point and a new file started from that point on.
I am aware of the auto trigger, but in certain if not many cases I feel it would be better if done manually.

This would remove the need to go and separate files after the fact in a computer program.

So, for example, you are in a meeting and responsible of taking notes, you record and when the subject changes, you just press the record button. You don't even have to look at the screen.

Another example, if you are recording your children or someone else playing music in a concert, you press the record button between numbers, and your files are created, one per song.

The same way if you are recording from radio and want to separate songs, subjects, ads, etc.

I like to record my band when we practice so I can use the file to practice with by myself later.
This feature would make it so much easier to use.


Thanks for reading,


Dan

[linuxstb]

According to the manual, Rockbox already does exactly what you want.  i.e. press REC (whilst recording), and a new file will be created.

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-buildch5.html#x8-970005.8

[Febs]

According to the manual, Rockbox already does exactly what you want.  i.e. press REC (whilst recording), and a new file will be created.

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-buildch5.html#x8-970005.8

Yes, I use this feature all the time.

Now what would be really handy would be the ability to split the file during playback.  This is the one feature that I really miss from my minidisk recording days.

[madoues]

Thanks for your replies linuxstb and Febs,

I'm glad to know the program is supposed to do this, although I don't understand how I could have missed that in the manual. And I'm also glad to know it works for you Febs. That narrows down the problem to either me or my mp3 player.

So why does it not work on my Sansa e280?  The pause button works and pressing the power button cancels the recording,

.......15 minutes later, !!!Eureka, it works!!!

I went tried it again several times to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Turns out I was the problem, but not the only one. My record button is intermittent, for one. Sometimes I have to press two or three times before it works. I hope I can manage to open the unit up and clean it.

The other thing that was misleading me is that since the filename is long, it only displays the year and month across the screen, so even when it was working, I thought it wasn't because I wasn't seeing a change in filename, not even a flicker. The trick is to leave the cursor on the filename so it scrolls fully across the screen.

Anyway, thanks again for your replies. I will be using my e280 a lot more, once the record button works OK. If not, I'll just buy another unit, they are much cheaper now than a year ago.

Cheers,

Dan