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From: gtr on 8 Feb 2010 17:25
I'm looking for the fastest way to do this:

Walk to my computer, push a button, exhale some shpiel about capitalist
greed, hit a button and be asked for a title for the file to be stored
in some specific area. Hopefully in an aiff or mp� file.

Or anything else that will let me do quick spoken entry and quick saving.

I thought about Amadeus, because it loads quick, but know that I'll
have to manage my files in a serious way. I'm hoping that DevonThink
might help out there.
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From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 8 Feb 2010 20:28


gtr wrote:
> I'm looking for the fastest way to do this:
>
> Walk to my computer, push a button, exhale some shpiel about capitalist
> greed, hit a button and be asked for a title for the file to be stored
> in some specific area. Hopefully in an aiff or mpê file.
>
> Or anything else that will let me do quick spoken entry and quick saving.
>
> I thought about Amadeus, because it loads quick, but know that I'll have
> to manage my files in a serious way. I'm hoping that DevonThink might
> help out there.

Hm, I'm not sure whether DEVONThink will do this.. I was thinking of
something like the old note audio recorder from OS 9.x and the very
first OS X versions - simple, fast, with just a REC, Stop and Save As
button and I then remembered there are a few of these apps around, but
if you're running SnowLeoaprd I don't know if they will work or not...

VoiceNotes 1.0 (commercial, maybe all too old)
widget to record, store, playback audio notes
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27102
RecordPad 2.11 (freeware)
Sound recording app. Record notes, voice and other audio.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33502
REC 2.1.3 (shareware)
Simple app for audio recording.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32028
Sound Studio 3.6 (shareware, maybe a bit overkill)
Scriptable audio recording & editing software.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10003
Audiocorder 5.3.3 (shareware)
Records audio manually & automatically.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10417

I've only tried RecordPad, SoundStudio and Audiocorder myself.
Audiocorder is the easiest to use in my opinion, but yet rather enhanced.

Of course Amadeus is the best - both for voice recordings but also for
common audio recording. Amadeua is also AppleScript savvy, so maybe you
could write an 'auto-save' script that auto saves each noice-note with a
sequential running number - e.g. yyyy/mm/dd-hh/mm/ss-000x
(year/month/date-hour/min/sec) - the 'x' is the note number and will
grow for each new note as well as the date will change subsequently.

With my keyboard - a Microsoft enhanced multi-media keyboard - I can
just press one of the 21 extra keys assigned to Amadeus Pro, and it
launches fast and then it's just to press COM+R and click the REC
button. I know it's a bit more difficult on an Apple keyboard or on a
laptop, but you can add a command to the keyboard commands in the prefs
pane 'Keyboard&Mice' -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Other Applications. - If I
remember right, keyboard and mice are split in OS X 10.6.x? - So if
you're running 10.6.x you have to open the keyboard prefs pane and add
the commands there instead...

...And of course - don't forget to select the microphone as input
source.:-))
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From: Mike Rosenberg on 9 Feb 2010 12:27
Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

> > I don't mention Tapedeck in my reply, because I find it rather poor and
> > by near unusable for anything serious. - Said straight - it's just a
> > kid's playing tool...
>
> I don't know what you're talking about. It's exactly what he describes.

Clearly you're not familiar with Erik, Tom. There are the ways things
work for most everyone else, and there are the ways things work for him.
There's a whole long list of his unique experiences. The mystery is why
he continues to project his experiences onto the Mac community in
general when he's shown time and time again that things just work
differently for him.

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