my sansa e280 records at 32bit 16khz mono

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:27 pm

This has got to be the strangest combination of settings I've ever seen. I got a sansa, a tiny mp3 player from sandisk that does voice recording with its tiny on board mic, great for recording practices and stuff. A while back I had a open source OS on it, called RockBox which let me set up my own recording parameters, and also recorded straight to mp3.

I returned the system back to its original factory OS, and now I'm stuck with recording at 32bit 16khz mono raw WAV files!! that's insane! Obviously, it has to be in mono because of the mic, but 16hz at 32bit? who the hell would have thought of that. Awesome headroom for minimal sound range? I would have gone 16bit and 44.1 at least. Or wait, following their format, I guess the settings would have been 8bit 96khz. Sound Blaster on speed. (Dr. Sbaitso over clocked to the max) haha.

iSiStOy · Post by **iSiStOy** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:10 pm

haha aaa,

What the hell!!!
Just a question:
In a normal using conditions, with std OS, what is the recording settings of these?
I've got one (Sansa e250) but didn't try to record anything seriously with it nor change the OS.
Any idea why you're stuck with 16KHz 32 bit (

) ?

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:28 pm

I think it's just hard wired on that. As in, hard coded in the OS. Just wished rockbox supported USB, and got their power management right. It's awesome otherwise.

valis · Post by **valis** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:08 pm

I"m not sure why it's limited to 16khz, but mp3 is 32bit (not 16 or 24) so it's possible that they have everything optimized for mp3 playback and kludged the wav support in on top of that.