When listening to the radio, I occationally hear a tune I¨d really like to have an MP3 of...

It would be *very* cool if I could just press a button and it would record and encode the music piece *from the start* and store on the empeg-player.

Now, there's a challenge ;-)

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

I'm almost positive its not possible (hardware lacking) because of several different reasons, some of them indicated here and the posts linked therein.

john

The other reason I believe is that the processor doesn't have enough power to encode the mp3 on the fly

I remember seeing something before about that it couldn't sample the audio from the tuner as being the reason, but now seeing that the new version has visuals for the tuner and aux. that reason doesn't completely fly does it?

I don't think I quite agree with you... As you can see from the therad you link, there is a possibility of sampling from the "output". Which means that you could have a "process"
- Allways recording, for instance a minute of sound, and "looping", so that it allways has the last minute of radio-sound on disk (or maaaybe even in memory). When I "press the magic button", it continues to record to the end of the "buffer", but stops "deleting" from the start of the "buffer", and when I press again (or when it detects an end-of-song). It is stored as a track. I should then be able to retrieve and edit on the PC and then put it back onto the player in wav or MP3 format. It could maybe even be converted to mp3 in "idle time" on the player.

Disadvantages:
Needs disks mounted RW
Needs manual edit of the songs
Needs "retrieval" function
Needs allways spinned-up drives.
Will do intense all-the-time disk writing which may "wear" the drives more than neccessary

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

That was the reply to "something else"
The limitation is:

"Can only record from the tuner/AUX if you are currently listening to it".

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

Before taking the time to record a track on the Empeg, upload it to the PC, edit anything that you didn't like(from the beginning and the end), encode to MP3, the download to the Empeg again.

Why not just, take a small notepad, pencil, and write down the song you like. Then when back at the PC, use you favorite MP3 file sharing program to download a much better quality copy from the net and download to the Empeg.

Just as much work and you get a better sounding MP3.


But back to your suggestions, the Empeg could record from a key press to a key press, then save that song. It could in the back ground have a process to encode to MP3. When it was done, it could alert the user somehow. It would then be available in a 'Radio' playlist. If the Empeg couldn't do everything for the user, then the feature would be useless as I see it.

No. What I am referring to was the same question I had read from earlier this year possibly the end of last year about recording to mp3.

You forget the part about braking and stopping your car at the side of the road, roaming trough the glove compartment to find a piece of wrapping paper to type on, drive to the next petrol-station to buy a pen and forgetting which song you were actually listening to

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

I found that to be so true(before V2 anyway). I always ended up with some shitty MP3's and I wrote therm down(when I could find a pen and paper at the same time.) When I thought about it I took the player in the house and removed the questionable MP3's. Now thanks to V2, I can mark tracks. Then search for them later in Emplode and remove if I wish. Too cool.

if I remember right:

MK1's cant "see" the tuner...
but with a mk2 it should be possible to record...

bobo