Sound Recorder

[Guest]

The program Sound Recorder used to be good. I used to be able to save my
files in any of quite a few different file formats. The only option now is
".wma". It's idiotic. The only thing that plays it is windows media player!
I now have to buy a converter to change over all of the files that I record
to a USEFUL file format. Come on, Microsoft! Are you trying to be
incompatible?!

This is almost certainly not the right place to put this- I searched all
over this website for a general online feedback location. There apparently
isn't one. There should be.

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...604&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

 

[Richard Urban]

You were not using sound recorder. Sound Recorder from windows XP only saves
in the .wav format.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Guest]

I am certain it was sound recorder, but I remember it being able to save in
more than one file format in XP. (I got rid of my XP machine a while ago so
you're probably right). But even if it did only save in .wav files, more
programs recognize it.

 

[Richard Urban]

I had just checked sound recorder on an XP box before giving you my answer.

..wav files only - sorry!

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[Guest]

OK, I believe you, but don't you think .wav files are more useful than .wma?

 

[Guest]

In XP, you CAN change the file format for the recording in Sound Recorder.
Urban is a raving lunatic.
He looked in a XP box; he dual boots!

If he had bothered to look in "Help" in "Sound Recorder" it would have bit
him, lol.

 

[Jerry]

Yes, the sound recorder only saved as .wav, BUT it would convert and save to
MANY .wav formats. I used it often to convert from PCM format to Microsoft
ADPCM format. This gave the same quality and a much smaller file size.

I would certainly like to be able to do this with Vista, but as stated
prior, the Sound Recorder in Vista is next to useless. If any one knows of
a way to convert from PCM format to Microsoft ADPCM format, I would surely
appreciate some feed back. There are several converters that claim to do
this, but NONE had delivered so far.

HELP please

 

[Richard Urban]

I posted about a week ago that the sound recorder from Windows XP can be
used in Vista. Copy the file and then save it to C:\Windows\System32. Create
a Shortcut (suggest calling it Sound Recorder XP) and place the shortcut in
your accessories folder. Now you can use either one.

The first time you run the old version of Sound Recorder, run it with
administrator privileges, as there are registry entries that must be allowed
to be written. The next time, and all times after, you can run Sound
Recorder normally.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Guest]

"I posted about a week ago that the sound recorder from Windows XP can be
used in Vista. Copy the file and then save it to C:\Windows\System32. Create
a Shortcut (suggest calling it Sound Recorder XP) and place the shortcut in
your accessories folder. Now you can use either one."
Ah, good. I'll do that right now.
"In XP, you CAN change the file format for the recording in Sound Recorder."
Heh heh. Oh well. Thought so.
OK great, this should solve my problem. So, final memo to Microsoft: Sound
recorder should be way more flexible, being able to save in .mp3, .mp4,
..wav,. ogg, etc., instead of only in the most useless sound file format I can
think of.

 

[Adam Albright]

"I posted about a week ago that the sound recorder from Windows XP can be
used in Vista. Copy the file and then save it to C:\Windows\System32. Create
a Shortcut (suggest calling it Sound Recorder XP) and place the shortcut in
your accessories folder. Now you can use either one."
Ah, good. I'll do that right now.
"In XP, you CAN change the file format for the recording in Sound Recorder."
Heh heh. Oh well. Thought so.
OK great, this should solve my problem. So, final memo to Microsoft: Sound
recorder should be way more flexible, being able to save in .mp3, .mp4,
.wav,. ogg, etc., instead of only in the most useless sound file format I can
think of.

Download Audacity... it does far more than Sound Recorder, is free,
works fine in Vista. The RED button is the record button. Assumes you
already set up some microphone. Unlike Sound Recorder shows the
waveform which you can extensively edit and modify and you can save or
convert to all kinds of file formats.

 

[Richard Urban]

Sound recorder was not designed to be an audio program, as you seem to think
it should be. It is a sound utility - for recording sound, mainly from a
microphone. For what it was designed for, it works superbly.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Adam Albright]

Sound recorder was not designed to be an audio program, as you seem to think
it should be. It is a sound utility - for recording sound, mainly from a
microphone. For what it was designed for, it works superbly.

Designed superbly?

It has few options, fewer controls. Maybe that's your idea of superb,
it ain't mine.

At MINIMUM any sound utility should be able to:

1. show the wave form
2. be able to alter gain/balance between left and right channels
3. have both an input and output level meter
4. export to common file types
5. provide at least simple editing

 

[Paul]

I would like to install the old XP sound recorder on the Vista PC. Would you
give me more details on where I can find the file to copy from? I don't have
the XP PC anymore but still have the setup CDs. Thanks.