Working with Sound You Have Recorded

There are a number of things you can do with sounds you have recorded. These include the following:

• You can play sounds you have recorded by highlighting the sound you want to hear on the Voice Memos screen and pressing the Play button. You’ll see the Now Playing screen, and the sound will play.
• You can delete sounds you have recorded by highlighting the sound you want to delete and pressing the Select button. You’ll see a screen with Play and Delete options. Select Delete and then select Delete Memo on the resulting screen. The sound you recorded will be deleted.
• The next time you connect your iPod to your computer, the sounds you recorded will be uploaded into your iTunes Library. To find them, search for the dates on which you recorded the sounds, and the sounds you recorded on those dates will be shown in the Content pane. After a recorded sound is in your Library, you can work with it just like the songs in that Library. For example, you can play the sounds, add them to playlists, put them on CD, and so on.
• You can also access the recording files you made directly by connecting the iPod to a computer and opening it as a hard drive from the desktop. Then open the Recordings folder, and you will see one WAV file for each recording stored on the iPod. You can play these WAV files or import them into an audio application for editing or other purposes.

How to Record Sound on an iPod?

To record sound, use the following steps:

1. Move to the Voice Memo screen; if you aren’t there already, choose Main menu, Extras, Voice Memos, Record Now.
2. Highlight Record and press the Select button. Your iPod will begin recording, and the counter on the Voice Memos screen will begin counting the time of the current recording. At the same time, the Pause and Stop and Save commands will appear on the screen
3. Speak into the voice recorder. Whatever sound you make will be recorded.
4. To pause the recording, highlight Pause and press the Select button. The counter and recording will pause.
5. To resume recording from where you left off, highlight Resume and press the Select button. Your iPod will start recording again.
6. When you are done recording, highlight Stop and Save and press the Select button. The recoding process will stop, and you’ll move back to the Voice Memos screen on which your recording will be listed. It will be named with the date and time on which you made it. You can repeat the previous steps to continue recording sound until you have captured all that you are interested in or until you run out of disk space to store the sound you have recorded, whichever comes first.

Choosing a Voice Recorder for an iPod

In order to record sound on an iPod, you need to obtain a voice recorder accessory. By the time you read this, there should be at least two of these units available: the Belkin Voice Recorder for iPod and the Griffin Technology iTalk iPod Voice Recorder. Only the Belkin unit was available when I wrote this, so that is the unit I focus on here. This unit retails for about $50 and enables you to access the recording features that are already built in to the iPod’s software.
Installing the Voice Recorder couldn’t be easier. Simply plug the unit inato the iPod’s Headphones and Remote ports. When you do so, you’ll see the Voice Memo screen. That’s all there is to setting up the voice recorder.