Ever needed to record a quick audio recording on your iPhone and then rapidly transfer it to a computer? There are many recording applications out there for the iPhone, but one I’ve found helpful is the aptly named “iRecorder”.
On Friday I read an email from Shel Holtz that he and Neville had to record this coming week’s FIR episode on Sunday morning and they needed our reports by then.
Knowing that today was going to be crazy and also knowing I had a number of tasks to do yesterday that kept me away from my office where my podcast rig is located, I whipped out my iPhone and used iRecorder to record my report. The interface itself is super-simple to use – just one button to push to start recording.
The reason why I like iRecorder, though, is that it has an extremely simple WiFi interface for transferring the recording. I just tap the down-arrow icon in the upper left corner and… ta da… it gives me a URL to hit in my browser:
A quick trip to that URL in my browser shows me all the audio files I can download:
A click on the link and the audio file is down on my computer. Now all I did was bring the audio into Audacity, do a minor bit of trimming and then export it to MP3 to send to Shel and Neville.
Simple. Easy. Fast.
Now, I don’t feel the audio quality is as good as what I get on my podcasting rig, but that’s understandable… this was an iPhone being used as a field recorder. It was a bit too “hot” for me with some clipping going on. But it enabled me to get a report quickly together and submitted when I didn’t expect to have time to do so.
It’s a cool little tool… and you can find it in the iPhone AppStore.
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Have you tried FiRe on iOS? It’s an iZotope Field Recorder product that lets you boost and play through segments. I haven’t mastered it yet but when I do, I’ll be able to create, remix, edit and email in-app.
IRecorder sounds cool and that seems like a great process to podcast on the fly. For folks using WordPress, I recommend Mobile Podcaster, which takes it a step further and actually creates the blog post and embeds your audio. So sweet!