Hi,

Is there an mp3 codec that I can use with OneNote? Will it record the
"follow along" data that one note uses to highlight the various parts of the
notes I was taking?

I'd like to be able to record lectures while I'm there, then listen to them
again later. I'd like to be able to listen to them both in ON and on a
portable mp3 player. As far as I can tell, none of the formats that ON is
currently recording to is supported by the portable players.

Thanks!
Rudy

Rudy Moore wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an mp3 codec that I can use with OneNote? Will it record the
> "follow along" data that one note uses to highlight the various parts of the
> notes I was taking?
>
> I'd like to be able to record lectures while I'm there, then listen to them
> again later. I'd like to be able to listen to them both in ON and on a
> portable mp3 player. As far as I can tell, none of the formats that ON is
> currently recording to is supported by the portable players.
>
> Thanks!
> Rudy


OneNote saves the file as a WMA, and I don't know of an mp3 codec. So,
if your mp3 player doesn't accept wma, then you are out of luck (unless
you want to batch convert using the open source program audacity). Most
players do accept it, so, you should be good.

What version of OneNote? If 2003, the wma is in the notebook folder.
If 2007, it is embedded into the section and you will need to right
click|save as to put it on your player.

One HUGE upgrade, in my mind, is that with ON 2007, if you record the
lecture, then, you listen to it again, any notes you write or highlight
will be synced with the recording. It is pretty slick...

erik
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> One HUGE upgrade, in my mind, is that with ON 2007, if you record the
> lecture, then, you listen to it again, any notes you write or highlight
> will be synced with the recording. It is pretty slick...

Yes, I think that, plus the small play button that is added to each block of
OneNote text that let's you jump right into the middle of the lecture are my
favorite features of OneNote.

I'll look at using "Save As..."

Rudy

Erik Gulbrandsen shared these words of wisdom:

>> Is there an mp3 codec that I can use with OneNote? Will it record
>> the "follow along" data that one note uses to highlight the
>> various parts of the notes I was taking?
>>
>> I'd like to be able to record lectures while I'm there, then
>> listen to them again later. I'd like to be able to listen to them
>> both in ON and on a portable mp3 player. As far as I can tell,
>> none of the formats that ON is currently recording to is supported
>> by the portable players.
>
> OneNote saves the file as a WMA, and I don't know of an mp3 codec.

That's correct - at least as the *original* format of a recording is
concerned.
But as to my experience it does not matter at all, which format an
*imported* sound-file might have.

> So, if your mp3 player doesn't accept wma, then you are out of luck
> (unless you want to batch convert using the open source program
> audacity).

I do not understand this.
As far as my experiments showed so far, it does not matter which type
of file is used if sound is *imported* into ON later.

Rainald

Rudy Moore shared these words of wisdom:

>> One HUGE upgrade, in my mind, is that with ON 2007, if you record
>> the lecture, then, you listen to it again, any notes you write or
>> highlight will be synced with the recording. It is pretty slick...
>
> Yes, I think that, plus the small play button that is added to each
> block of OneNote text that let's you jump right into the middle of
> the lecture are my favorite features of OneNote.

Sorry to disagree - besides confirming -:
This - as to my experience - is not limited to the type (format) used:
I have a number of sample pages where MP3 files were imported later
and not only the play-back feature works fine but - as with no other
kind of software <!!!> - even "jumping points" having been defined.
What ON offers for "annotating" audio can easily be used for the
playback of audio-files (MP3-files too<!!!>) for just jumping to any
point in an audio file (first verse, chorus, last verse etc. - just as
the annotations define it).

Rainald

Rudy Moore shared these words of wisdom:

> Is there an mp3 codec that I can use with OneNote?

No.

> Will it record
> the "follow along" data that one note uses to highlight the various
> parts of the notes I was taking?

Sorry, I do not understand this.
ON recordings are made in the WMA format.
But there is no problem to convert the resulting WMA-files to the
MP3-format later (for whatever this might be good for [the compression
rate of WMA is - at least - as good as the one of MP3]).

> I'd like to be able to record lectures while I'm there, then listen
> to them again later. I'd like to be able to listen to them both in
> ON and on a portable mp3 player.

OK, fine. Where's the problem?
Just export the WMA-recordings and convert them to MP3 (using any of
the WMA-MP3 converters available for free on the net).

> As far as I can tell, none of the
> formats that ON is currently recording to is supported by the
> portable players.

Not true - at least the way you put it.
There's quite some players working fine with WMA.
And in case yours does not, convert the files to format your player
understands.

Rainald

>
> I do not understand this.
> As far as my experiments showed so far, it does not matter which type of
> file is used if sound is *imported* into ON later.
>
> Rainald
>

I'm talking about sending a wma file to an music player, not onenote.

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