Recording Enhancements Pack

[mborus]

Hi,

I finally installed the REP to get the larger font size and
it worked great over the weekend.

I've got one problem, though:

I often pause and restart the recording. On the weekend I copied a batch of 100 vinyl singles. Here I paused whenever I changed the singles and adjusted the gain for each.

My biggest fear is that I leave the Iriver in REC-PAUSE mode instead of recording. This has happened a few times in the past. On the Archos units, the flashing red LED shows the pause - on the Iriver, there isn't anything that catches my attention fast. I after restarting, I need to look at the display for a second to catch the time changing.

Am I the only one with this problem?

[Mmmm]

There is a pause icon in the statusbar!

[mborus]

There is a pause icon in the statusbar!

Alas this icon is so small that I can't make out the difference
between recording and paused when glancing at the display
without picking up the H120. In a normal recording situation
where the H120 is on a table one arm length away from me the
icon doesn't help much.

[petur]

/me presents the option to have the background color changed depending on the state Would this be a great idea? At least I would be using this as I often find myself in the same situation

[Mmmm]

/me presents the option to have the background color changed depending on the state Would this be a great idea? At least I would be using this as I often find myself in the same situation

It would be a great idea if you had a nice flashy colour screen yes!

[Llorean]

Yeah, that only solves the problem for two of the at least five recording-capable targets I can think of off the top of my head. Clearly not the best solution.

Could you perhaps make something on the screen itself blink, like say the peakmeter flashing between displayed and not? That being moderately large and easy to notice, if it were blinking would be a clear sign of it being paused. Or really, anything blinking in and out.

[Mmmm]

Not the peakmeter as you need to use that while the recording is paused... A tricky one that.

[petur]

inverted colors?

and sorry for insulting you poor B&W display users :p

[mborus]

inverted colors?

and sorry for insulting you poor B&W display users :p

Inverting the LCD in recording pause mode (but not stop mode) would
solve the problem for me. This is easy to spot and doesn't
cover any of the other screen information.

Of course this should be optional for either screen and/or remote
and could be deactivated by default.

[petur]

Of course this should be optional for either screen and/or remote
and could be deactivated by default.

of course

[Rincewind]

Isn't there enough room somewhere on the screen (I'm not talking about remotes or archos here) to have a HUGE Pause icon flashing?

[petur]

I fear most REP users would say 'no'

[Davide-NYC]

Inverting the LCD in recording pause mode (but not stop mode)

Better yet, only invert during recording. (?) you cant leave the screen anyway while you're actually recording so why not?

I think inverting the LCD during recording is a very good idea.

[Mmmm]

I fear most REP users would say 'no'

Yeah... look at the screenshots in post#1 no more real estate I'm afraid...!

The thought of a totally inverted screen gives me a headache... couldn't we just invert one thing? like the top two lines or something? Or maybe that wouldn't be obvious enough..I don't know...

I don't think inverting during recording would be useful would it? I suppose then it would be easy to tell that it is recording...how would you know it was paused and not stopped?

[petur]

on color targets we could write a huge stop/pause/rec symbol into the backdrop buffer in soft colors of course to keep text readable.