HT201706: Record and sync Voice Memos on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPod
Learn about Record and sync Voice Memos on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPod
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Nov 29, 2012 8:07 AM in response to circumambulantby planb77,I can't remember exactly, but there should be away to adjust the mode that you are recording in, which can either be stereo or mono. I haven't been able to find any documentation on this just yet...
B-rock
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Nov 29, 2012 8:54 AM in response to planb77by circumambulant,Let me clarify. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPod_classic_160GB_User_Guide.pdf is the manual. Under the settings for Voice Memo, quality choices are low and high. In reports I have read, low quality is for WAV files that are mono with a 22.05 kHz sample rate, and high quality is for WAV that are stereo with a 44.1 kHz sample rate. When I actually recorded high quality WAV file with my 160 GB iPod Classic, it was mono with a 44.1 kHz sample rate.
Why isn't it stereo? Did Apple downgrade the recording capabilities in the latest generation iPod? Is there a way to record at high quality instead of the halfway high quality recording that it actually makes?
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Nov 29, 2012 9:09 AM in response to circumambulantby planb77,I'm not 100% sure. Could be an issue with the TuneTalk or the iPod's itself. Have you tried doing any of the 5 R's to make sure it isn't a software issue?
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
B-rock
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Nov 29, 2012 9:25 AM in response to planb77by circumambulant,http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPod_classic_Features_Guide.pdf on page 54 is where I found that the iPod Classic high quality voice memo is supposed to be stereo at 44.1 kHz. I will try re-installing the iPod's software later today.
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Nov 29, 2012 5:12 PM in response to planb77by circumambulant,It works!
I plugged in the TuneTalk. I held down the Menu and center buttons on the iPod to make it restart. The next audio recording I made was 44.1 kHz stereo. The iPod must attempt to determine whether it has a mono or stereo source availalbe. Somehow, perhaps because I had both the TuneTalk and combination headphones/microphone plugged in, it selected mono. I wish it were an explicit selection, but at least it works properly now.
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Nov 30, 2012 2:15 PM in response to circumambulantby planb77,Thanks for the update and sharing what worked.
B-rock
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Dec 2, 2012 1:28 PM in response to circumambulantby nanren888,Many thanks, I may try this too. It sort of explains the random stereo & mono I got too.
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I have not looked up how many months, years ago I posted the same question.
I walked away from Apple devices in favour of ones that just worked, because I could not get it to work reliably.
I just took the egg on the face for having bought ipods that didn't perform the task.
Appalled that Apple could not be bothered acknowledging/responding with enough about the problem to allow this fix to come to the surface before now.
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Dec 2, 2012 3:26 PM in response to nanren888by circumambulant,Last night without my intervention, it switched back to mono. I do not think that I changed anything in the settings. I made a recording with the high quality setting, and it turned out mono. The iPod clearly is capable of recording both mono and stereo at 44.1 kHz. The iPod software should have a setting to select mono or stereo, but it does not. Instead, it selects mono on its own without any indication that it has done so. At this point, I doubt that Apple will ever fix this bug.
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Dec 2, 2012 3:56 PM in response to circumambulantby circumambulant,I submitted a bug report via http://bugreport.apple.com. I will post an update if I get an answer.