Stream Recording ... with FREE [tm] products

[Chief Suspect]

Note that I said ... with FREE [tm] products. I have imposed
upon the [tm] trademark proofreading symbolage to specify the
meaning of FREEWARE as definitively described by this usegroup.

In regard to FREE streaming sound recorders:

Unless I am missinterpreting the thread, the only FREEWARE available
(not FREE downloads, not FREE trials, not 'FREE but with limitations')
for doing what you want to do includes only one product:

1. SoundCapture 1.0. by MagicSofts.com (note MagicSofts, not MagicSoft)
This product was offered years ago, free and unlimited in any fashion
as version 1.0. It is not longer supported and it is difficult in
the extreme to locate it archived online somewhere. MagicSofts.com
seems to have become a broker for other products by other people,
and no longer offers or supports even a mention of SoundCapture to the
best of my searching around. Do NOT confuse this early SoundCapture
with a present-day product of same name which is a command-line
product that is difficult to use. SoundCapture was NOT limited
in any fashion what-so-ever.

However .. a semi-FREE product may be of use:

2. Freecorder 2.21 by Freecorder.com. Yes .. it is free, but
it is limited to 30 minutes. Admittedly that is generous for most
usage. But, Freecorder is haunted by ads hawking an upgrade that
provides higher-quality captures and other features that would be
nice to have.

If anybody knows of any legitimate FREEWARE product that is
totally unlimited and does what we want it to do ... please
speak up and provide some URLs. Thanks

 

[Thorkild Dalsgaard]

If anybody knows of any legitimate FREEWARE product that is
totally unlimited and does what we want it to do

StepVoice Recorder (=SVRecorder)
http://stepvoice.com/index.html
is now shareware, but version 1.0b is still freeware

Direct link to old freeware version 1.0b (Note a newer shareware
exists)
http://stepvoice.com/download/svrecorder.zip

How to control the quality of recording:

http://webct.pstcc.edu/studenthelp/downloads/svrecorderfiles/configure-svr.htm

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard

 

[Ulrich Neumann]

1. SoundCapture 1.0. by MagicSofts.com (note MagicSofts, not MagicSoft)
This product was offered years ago, free and unlimited in any fashion
as version 1.0. It is not longer supported and it is difficult in
the extreme to locate it archived online somewhere. MagicSofts.com

I found it here:
http://wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/sndcapt/sc.exe
The help file says it's shareware though.

Ulrich

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 17 Feb 2005, Chief Suspect wrote

Note that I said ... with FREE [tm] products. I have imposed
upon the [tm] trademark proofreading symbolage to specify the
meaning of FREEWARE as definitively described by this usegroup.

In regard to FREE streaming sound recorders:
-snip-

If anybody knows of any legitimate FREEWARE product that is
totally unlimited and does what we want it to do ... please
speak up and provide some URLs. Thanks

I looked and looked for this a couple of years ago, and didn't find
anything that could hold a candle to a certain well-regarded (and not
particularly expensive) paid-for program.

Something might have come along in the meantime, though, so I'll keep
an eye on this thread with interest.