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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. |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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 |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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 |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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. |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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. |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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 -- http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ -!- http://www.rr.dds.nl/ http://www.dread.demon.nl/ |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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 |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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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` |
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Best free Sound Recorder for WinXP?
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 -- * 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. |
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