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Thread ID: 37600 2003-09-12 06:14:00 SOUND RECORDER ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) Press F1
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174763 2003-09-12 06:14:00 This is a semi-urgent enquiry...

I need a program that is like the default MS Sound Recorder...

The reason I cant use this is because my speech n music background is over the 60 seconds time frame, after which the recording automatically stops.

The main feature I need is the echoing effect like in MS Sound Recorder...

Many thanks,
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
174764 2003-09-12 06:36:00 This (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) thread should help ya.

Cheers Steve
Steve Askew (119)
174765 2003-09-12 06:49:00 Interesting the way things go ... the last entry in that thread mentions 10MB/min as a reason for the 60 sec limit. When that Sound Recorder was first written, a big hard disk was 528MB. Some Windows machines had 200 or 300 MB. A lot had 40 MB.

Even at 60 sec, I bet a lot of people had disk space problems. :D
Graham L (2)
174766 2003-09-12 06:57:00 Yes big files :-)
what I do is use CDEX to convert the wav file into an MP3, To convert a 8mb wav file takes about the same time it takes to click the mouse.

Cheers Steve
Steve Askew (119)
174767 2003-09-12 09:21:00 Now, comes the hard part.. Many thanks Steve, GoldWave is a bomb.. well designed....

This recording turned out to be 5 minutes... as well as been 50MB.... its currently in *.wav format

I'd like to convert this to whatever format in order to minimise the file to send over internet. *ADSL off course, I have 128k.. the person I'm sending it to have 512k*

Ive heard that MIDI is the smallest format... then MP3?!?!

How do you do this.. CDex as suggested above does not very very good...

Many thanks once again,
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
174768 2003-09-12 10:43:00 I have found dBpower Amp does the job and is easy to use. Download from dBpoweramp.com/.

Cheers
Shortstop (632)
174769 2003-09-12 13:41:00 i originally suggested to try goldwave n the link provided by steve ;-)

go back to goldwave.com and download the "lame mp3 encoder" and then install it.. after that in goldwave u have the option to save ur files n mp3 format

cheers !
Term_X (560)
174770 2003-09-12 14:25:00 Yes! Another person besides myself who's preaching for GoldWave.. and they've released 5.x now too.. I must download that myself...! Chilling_Silently (228)
174771 2003-09-13 01:54:00 dayum . . goldwave 5 . x? . . okays im goin back there, ive got lots of music mp3 wav etc software, and theyre all pretty sophisticated . . but when i dont want to bother with all the accesories . . il always go back to goldwave cos its simple but does the job effectively!!

i hope mr s y weve been of some help ;-)

peace yalls
Term_X (560)
174772 2003-09-13 04:02:00 Thanks all, I have finally done it...

50MB reduced to just under 5 MB by a program called Waver...
Sound recorder by MP3...

Many thanks to all once again,
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
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