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looking for a program like sndrec.exe
I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7.
I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. Thanks. |
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On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in
alt.windows7.general: I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I'm sure that Sound Recorder came with Vista, since it came earlier with XP and later with Windows 7. Have you actually tried looking for it? It's probably listed in the Accessories menu. A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). |
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:29:54 -0500, Nil
wrote: On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in alt.windows7.general: I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I'm sure that Sound Recorder came with Vista, since it came earlier with XP and later with Windows 7. Have you actually tried looking for it? It's probably listed in the Accessories menu. Sure I checked. I also googled but didn't use the right words. When I came up with better words just now I got: What replaced sndrec32 from Windows XP in Windows 7? The upshot is it's called soundrecorder.exe now. A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). Thanks. I'll use one or the other. If I don't use Audacity now, I'll probably use it later. |
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:46:48 -0500, Micky
wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:29:54 -0500, Nil wrote: On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in alt.windows7.general: I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I'm sure that Sound Recorder came with Vista, since it came earlier with XP and later with Windows 7. Have you actually tried looking for it? It's probably listed in the Accessories menu. Sure I checked. I also googled but didn't use the right words. When I came up with better words just now I got: What replaced sndrec32 from Windows XP in Windows 7? The upshot is it's called soundrecorder.exe now. A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). Thanks. I'll use one or the other. If I don't use Audacity now, I'll probably use it later. Me again. It turns out soundrecorder.exe will record but won't play! Seems like it will be inconvenient, so I'll either use Audacity or copy sndrec32 over from XP when I have that drive connected. Thanks again. |
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Micky wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:46:48 -0500, Micky wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:29:54 -0500, Nil wrote: On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in alt.windows7.general: I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I'm sure that Sound Recorder came with Vista, since it came earlier with XP and later with Windows 7. Have you actually tried looking for it? It's probably listed in the Accessories menu. Sure I checked. I also googled but didn't use the right words. When I came up with better words just now I got: What replaced sndrec32 from Windows XP in Windows 7? The upshot is it's called soundrecorder.exe now. A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). Thanks. I'll use one or the other. If I don't use Audacity now, I'll probably use it later. Me again. It turns out soundrecorder.exe will record but won't play! Seems like it will be inconvenient, so I'll either use Audacity or copy sndrec32 over from XP when I have that drive connected. Thanks again. Windows Media Player should play. And I'm sure there would be third-party items like WinAmp etc. More info here, depending on what you end up using. Output format changes with OS version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Recorder_(Windows) Paul |
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"Nil" wrote in message ...
On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in alt.windows7.general: I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I'm sure that Sound Recorder came with Vista, since it came earlier with XP and later with Windows 7. Have you actually tried looking for it? It's probably listed in the Accessories menu. A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). I've been using Audacity for many years. It has yet to disappoint me (a bit of a learning curve, and I have yet to use all of its features, which are numerous). |
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From: "Micky"
I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. Thanks. Nil has provided, arguably, the best solution. Audacity not only allows one to record from the microphone but also from Line-In. It also allows one to edit the audio track and modify and transform the audio track and then save it in various compressed ( like MP3 ) and uncompressed formats ( like WAV ). SoundRecorder is a junk, stock, utility. Audacity is an Audio creation and editing application. http://audacityteam.org/download/ -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:00:17 -0500, Micky wrote:
I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. I strongly recommend the free Audacity. I used it to digitize a large collection of audiotapes and vinyl LPs, which I eventually burned to CDs. Audacity is easy to use, and has very good features for cleaning up noise. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:29:54 -0500, Nil wrote:
A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). Oops -- I saw this after I had posted my recommendation of the same program. But I lazily failed to give the URL. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On 02/01/2016 13:34, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Micky" I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. Thanks. Nil has provided, arguably, the best solution. Audacity not only allows one to record from the microphone but also from Line-In. It also allows one to edit the audio track and modify and transform the audio track and then save it in various compressed ( like MP3 ) and uncompressed formats ( like WAV ). SoundRecorder is a junk, stock, utility. Audacity is an Audio creation and editing application. http://audacityteam.org/download/ I use Audacity. I also use WavePad which is also good. Both are free - but there is also a Pro paid-for version of WavePad, but the free version does everything I need. http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ [Click on the link in the paragraph which begins with "Get it free . . ." -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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In message , Roger Mills
writes On 02/01/2016 13:34, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Micky" I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. Thanks. Nil has provided, arguably, the best solution. Audacity not only allows one to record from the microphone but also from Line-In. It also allows one to edit the audio track and modify and transform the audio track and then save it in various compressed ( like MP3 ) and uncompressed formats ( like WAV ). SoundRecorder is a junk, stock, utility. Audacity is an Audio creation and editing application. http://audacityteam.org/download/ I use Audacity. I also use WavePad which is also good. Both are free - but there is also a Pro paid-for version of WavePad, but the free version does everything I need. http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ [Click on the link in the paragraph which begins with "Get it free . . ." Audacity will record almost anything you hear in the speakers. While there won't be any problems with a microphone, there are some computers won't let it record streamed audio (it depends on the sound card). Although I've been using Audacity for years, on a couple of my latest machines I've had to buy and install Total Recorder (which seems to work OK). http://www.highcriteria.com/ -- Ian |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:31:49 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:29:54 -0500, Nil wrote: A decent free full-featured audio recorder is Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/). Oops -- I saw this after I had posted my recommendation of the same program. But I lazily failed to give the URL. I don't think it's lazy to not give the url. I'm the one wanting a favor and it won't hurt me to look a little for the program. |
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On 02 Jan 2016, Micky wrote in
alt.windows7.general: On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:31:49 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Oops -- I saw this after I had posted my recommendation of the same program. But I lazily failed to give the URL. I don't think it's lazy to not give the url. I'm the one wanting a favor and it won't hurt me to look a little for the program. I made a point of giving the URL because there's also an old Audacity site, hosted by Sourceforge.net that should be avoided. They are no longer associated with the project and they only supply an old version whose installer may contain foistware. The link I cited is for the official site and is safe and up-to-date. |
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On 02/01/2016 22:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Roger Mills writes On 02/01/2016 13:34, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Micky" I'm running Vista but it's a lot like 7. I'm looking for a program something like sndrec.exe, just to record and playback from my microphone. If it did more things that might be nice, but not worth paying extra for. Does something come with Vista? Or another recommendation. Thanks. Nil has provided, arguably, the best solution. Audacity not only allows one to record from the microphone but also from Line-In. It also allows one to edit the audio track and modify and transform the audio track and then save it in various compressed ( like MP3 ) and uncompressed formats ( like WAV ). SoundRecorder is a junk, stock, utility. Audacity is an Audio creation and editing application. http://audacityteam.org/download/ I use Audacity. I also use WavePad which is also good. Both are free - but there is also a Pro paid-for version of WavePad, but the free version does everything I need. http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ [Click on the link in the paragraph which begins with "Get it free . . ." Audacity will record almost anything you hear in the speakers. While there won't be any problems with a microphone, there are some computers won't let it record streamed audio (it depends on the sound card). Although I've been using Audacity for years, on a couple of my latest machines I've had to buy and install Total Recorder (which seems to work OK). http://www.highcriteria.com/ I've always been able to record streamed audio with WavePad by setting Stereo Mix as the default recording device. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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