In order to record audio with iPod touch, you'll need to download an app. iPod touch also supports microphones that use the headphone port like Apple's Earphones with Mic or Incipio's new $18 Lloyd microphone for iPod 4G (which does indeed work with iPod touch, it just doesn't fit nicely). These microphones attach to iPod's dock connector.
ITALK SYNC APP PRO
Thanks to a recent software update, the second generation iPod touch (with volume buttons on the left side) can now use add-on microphones like TuneTalk from Belkin and iTalk Pro from Griffin. Overall, iTalk is the best iPhone recording app I’ve found.Unlike iPhone, iPod touch does not sport a built-in microphone. I seldom feel the need to rename my recording and even seldomer (!) play back my recordings on the iPhone itself. I’ve always have a harder time dragging the thumb on longer recordings.įortunately, these two UI problems don’t affect me much. This may be my imagination, but the thumb “target” seems to get smaller as the recording gets longer. At first I thought dragging wasn’t allowed. Unfortunately, putting your finger on the thumb to start the drag takes very careful aim and usually takes me a few tries before I catch it. You can drag its thumb to play back any part of the recording. If you want to change a selected recording’s name, your best bet is to select another recording first inexplicably, having the recording deselected makes the arrow easier to tap.Ī similar UI problem concerns the slider at the bottom of the screen. In my experience, almost any tap will start playback of the selected recording. But if you first tap anywhere else in the line, the recording is selected and given a blue background.Īt this point, the arrow at the right end of the selected line becomes very hard to hit. Tapping the little blue arrow to the right of a recording’s name is supposed to take you to an info screen for that recording, which tells you the length and file size of the recording and also lets you edit its name. More troublesome is the iTalk UI when looking at the list of recordings on your phone. Stopping iTalk on the phone and restarting it usually fixes this problem, but sometimes I have to restart both applications to get the connection made. Sometimes iTalk Sync has trouble finding your phone on the network. The advantage of AIFF is that almost any audio application on your computer can read it. iTalk records in the uncompressed AIFF format, so the transfer may take a while. Double-click on the name of your phone, confirm on your phone that you want it to connect to the computer, and iTalk Sync will then present the list of recordings on the phone.Īs the on-screen instructions say, drag the recordings you want onto your computer and the transfer will begin. Unless you’re at a hotspot where several people are using iTalk, this list will consist of just your iPhone. After a bit of searching, iTalk Sync will present a list of the iPhones it’s found on the local wifi network. To transfer a recording to your computer, start iTalk Sync on the computer, then start iTalk on the iPhone. You can go back and change the name later if you need to.
ITALK SYNC APP FREE
I went straight to the Premium version, so I can’t tell you how annoying the ads in the free version might be. ITalk comes in two versions, a free version that’s ad-supported and a Premium version that costs $4.99. I’ve dropped both of them in favor of Griffin’s iTalk. Next post Previous post Griffin iTalk recorder for the iPhoneīack in August, I talked about the pluses and minuses of two voice recording apps for the iPhone, Recorder and QuickVoice.