(See “Understanding and Navigating Menus” on pg. 11 for details on
navigating menus). Set your recording options before recording files.
Press the WAV/MP3 button to switch between the file formats WAV files
are not compressed, thus they produce high fidelity recordings, but require
a lot of storage space. MP3 encoding is “lossy”, so MP3 recording are not
as high-fidelity as WAV. Nevertheless, they can sound excellent
(depending on the recording bitrate) and they require significantly less
storage space.
After selecting a file format, you can choose a bitrate at which to record
your audio. Like high photo resolution, higher bitrates produce higher
quality audio, but also require more storage space. Press the bitrate
information on the top right of the screen to change the bitrate level.
These are the basic recording operations:
z To record, use the stylus to press the REC screen button. As you
record, the display will show (a) the name of the file under which the
recording will be saved, (b) the elapsed time of the current recording,
(c) a countdown timer that indicates how much recording time is
possible, based on available storage space, and (d) a recording-in-
progress indicator.
z To pause a recording, press the PLAY/PAUSE button.
z To stop recording, press the Stop button on the screen.
• Once the recording ends, you can create another recording by
pressing the PLAY button.
To listen to the recorded file: Once voice has been recorded, go to the
Mode Selector to enter Music mode, and select Record List for a list of your
wav recordings.
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