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	Estel	2013-06-12 , 03:48
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Originally Posted by Copernicus

Ah, cool. Actually, if I may ask, what would you most like to see in a filename? I'd like to find a way to pack as much data in to one as I can, without making it completely unwieldy. For example, I was thinking that perhaps a timestamp with just the day, and not the hour and minute might be good enough. (Besides, the files are themselves timestamped...)

Date and phone number (of other party, obviously) sounds like OK. Hour and minute is useful in manipulating files through ls, find and friends, but it can be done with timestamps, too (with more hassle, but still.)

But, let's just assign all available elements to things like $day, $month, $year, $hour, $minute, $second, $number, etc, and let user arrange it any way she/he feel fancy, for example, via some text field. So, user would be able to put just day-month here, or, if willing to, something like:

Code:

That nerdy $phone at $hour:$minute -$year, $month-$day

...to get a "That nerdy +48957876567 at 04:00:20 - 2013, 06-13.spx" filename. (extreme example, with non-changing elements, variables, and whitespaces). This way, everybody will be happy, and (correct me if I'm wrong) it shouldn't be too hard to code.

Originally Posted by Copernicus

Well, actually, using GStreamer, it looks like you can change the volume during recording. (In fact, having Orecchiette grab the volume rocker controls itself would probably be the easiest way to avoid the muting issue, and would allow me to use them for true volume control if you wanted...)

No, please don't! It would be extremely silly to record FM program while listening to it, then, change volume for <whatever> reason, and get rest of it recorded on different volume level. Or same with conversation. By any means, please, lets just record things in less possible processed form (by volume, filters, etc). The earliest in "pipeline" the source is, the better. Volume control for recording in Orecch' sounds acceptable (but I still don't see real reason for it - everyone can fiddle with volume level in <random> editing program, later, lossless, in most cases).

This bring another question - as you may be aware, N900 have software'ish high-pass filter set to audio output, when using build-in speakers (unless you manually force sound there by going around this mechanism). This is meant to prevent speakers from blowing up due to out of range low sounds. This high-pass filter isn't active, while listening via headphone.

I wonder, do we record "early enough" in sound sources to bypass it? Recording after high-pass wouldn't be optimal, to say at least. (I'll try to search for exact data about that filter, later - as I remember details somehow vaguely - unless you nanage to be faster).

Originally Posted by Copernicus

Actually, I think I saw something like that in the "Babyphone" app. I'm kinda nervous about how much more pressure it would place on the CPU, though... I'll take a look.

Disableable, please (for mentioned performance, or just power-savings/aesthetic reasons).

/Estel

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