Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?

Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

From: "Robert Macy"

Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

Audacity on SourceForge is #1 in my book.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

Robert Macy wrote:
Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

There is a trick to using Sound Recorder. It can record a longer
period of audio than 60 seconds. It may be using memory for
recording, but seems to need the association of a big enough
file, to convince it there is room. I think I've had mine boosted
up over the 1 hour mark. Just took an empty file to do it.
And actually, Audacity can be used to quickly make a file for
the job (some of the sound effects have a duration parameter,
for making long samples).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_R..._%28Windows%29

"Versions of Sound Recorder before Windows Vista recorded
audio to memory, rather than to the hard disk, and the length
of recording was by default limited to 60 seconds.

Microsoft recommends recording 60 seconds and pressing the
Record button again to record another minute. [Ha! Pure gold]

It is easy to achieve longer recording times by using "File | Save"
with "Edit | Insert File ..." to increase it. For example, saving
an initial 1 minute recording as "1min.wav" and then inserting
the "1min.wav" file 9 times will create a 10 minute long recording
which can then be saved as "10min.wav". This "10min.wav" file can
then be inserted 5 more times (or as many times as there is room
in primary memory) to create a "1hour.wav" file.

By recording over any of these longer sound files, Sound Recorder
can have an uninterrupted arbitrary recording time (limited only
by primary memory)."

So you can torture the little Sound Recorder if you want.

In fact, there are situations where you might want two audio programs.
Audacity playing a sound. Sound Recorder, recording the results (from
say, a microphone). So there are occasions where I've used both
programs at the same time.

HTH,
Paul

On Mar 7, 9:26*pm, Paul wrote:
Robert Macy wrote:
Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

There is a trick to using Sound Recorder. It can record a longer
period of audio than 60 seconds. It may be using memory for
recording, but seems to need the association of a big enough
file, to convince it there is room. I think I've had mine boosted
up over the 1 hour mark. Just took an empty file to do it.
And actually, Audacity can be used to quickly make a file for
the job (some of the sound effects have a duration parameter,
for making long samples).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_R..._%28Windows%29

* * "Versions of Sound Recorder before Windows Vista recorded
* * *audio to memory, rather than to the hard disk, and the length
* * *of recording was by default limited to 60 seconds.

* * *Microsoft recommends recording 60 seconds and pressing the
* * *Record button again to record another minute. [Ha! Pure gold]

* * *It is easy to achieve longer recording times by using "File | Save"
* * *with "Edit | Insert File ..." to increase it. For example, saving
* * *an initial 1 minute recording as "1min.wav" and then inserting
* * *the "1min.wav" file 9 times will create a 10 minute long recording
* * *which can then be saved as "10min.wav". This "10min.wav" file can
* * *then be inserted 5 more times (or as many times as there is room
* * *in primary memory) to create a "1hour.wav" file.

* * *By recording over any of these longer sound files, Sound Recorder
* * *can have an uninterrupted arbitrary recording time (limited only
* * *by primary memory)."

So you can torture the little Sound Recorder if you want.

In fact, there are situations where you might want two audio programs.
Audacity playing a sound. Sound Recorder, recording the results (from
say, a microphone). So there are occasions where I've used both
programs at the same time.

HTH,
* * * Paul

Paul,

PURE GOLD!!! Thank you.

On Mar 7, 6:27*pm, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:
From: "Robert Macy"

Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

Audacity on SourceForge is #1 in my book.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool -http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.ukhttp://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

David,

Thank you for the recommendation, and especially for the URL. The size
at 20+MB is a bit daunting, but I like 'opensource' software, their
support [usually through an intelligent group] is outstanding.

On 2013-03-08, Robert Macy wrote:
Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

Two free small and easy direct to disk recorders, one also with scheduler for
unattended recordings while you're away or sleeping:

Memo session recorder, old but good:
manual / time scheduled recording + support for free mp3 encoders
+ on-the-fly mp3 compression

http://messer.aerolit.pl/

HarddiskOgg - On-the-fly encoder for recording analog
audio sources (i.e. line-in or microphone) directly to Ogg
Vorbis/Wave/MP3, featuring auto-normalization and command
line support.

http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php

--
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http://www.dread.demon.nl/

From: "Robert Macy"

On Mar 7, 6:27 pm, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:
From: "Robert Macy"

Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

Audacity on SourceForge is #1 in my book.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


David,

Thank you for the recommendation, and especially for the URL. The size
at 20+MB is a bit daunting, but I like 'opensource' software, their
support [usually through an intelligent group] is outstanding.

It is outstanding software. You can work in Mono or Stereo mode, perform
equalization, cut & paste, perform transformation (Nyquist, fade-in,
fade-out, pitch, speed, tempo, etc) and can work with many audio file
formats.

20MB isn't really that big but its not just a simple utility but a full
audio recording/editing application.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

In ,
Robert Macy typed:
Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a
little like the one provided by MS? but not limited to 60
seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use.
produces .wav, or selectable.

Audacity
It allows recording, editting, trimming, combining, all sort of stuff.

HTH,

Twayne`

On Mar 8, 8:01*am, Rasta Robert
wrote:
On 2013-03-08, Robert Macy wrote:

Anybody recommend a good sound recorder that acts a little like the
one provided by MS? but not limited to 60 seconds.

Would like FREE, runs on WinXP, small, easy to use. produces .wav, or
selectable.

Two free small and easy direct to disk recorders, one also with scheduler for
unattended recordings while you're away or sleeping:

Memo session recorder, old but good:
manual / time scheduled recording + support for free mp3 encoders
+ on-the-fly mp3 compression

http://messer.aerolit.pl/

HarddiskOgg - On-the-fly encoder for recording analog
audio sources (i.e. line-in or microphone) directly to Ogg
Vorbis/Wave/MP3, featuring auto-normalization and command
line support.

http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php

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* http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ -!- http://www.rr.dds.nl/
* * * * * * * * *http://www.dread.demon.nl/

Thank you for those URLs!

Interesting that messer was developed on Win98, yet for LARGE files,
they suggest using NTSF file structures. But small size is great!

thanks for that second one, too

I'll try them both.