Monday, September 7, 2009

Livescribe Podcast Recorder

This pen also works great as a podcasts recorder! You can use the internal microphone or the 3D microphone/earphone.
The audio is in aac format and can be saved as wav from the sessions view in Livescribe Desktop or you can just search for the aac file and convert it.
Here is how using the aTunes 1.13.1 (== great audio player/manager) command line tools in the win_tools directory:
  • Convert the aac to a "audiodump.wav" file:
    mplayer c:\My Lifescribe\Library\...\Sessions\audio-#.aac -ao pcm:fast -vc null -vo null

  • Encode to mp3:
    lame audiodump.wav audiodump.mp3 --tl [album name] --tt [title] --ta [artist] --ty [year]

Et voila. You got the audio as a mp3 file ready for publishing and listening on your mp3 player!
On to my first Healthcare IT podcast ;-) Don't even know if anyone is interested in healthcare standards news as a podcast... but I sure want it. There is so much happening on and so little time to read all the news...