Recording a Casette Tape to put on CD Rom

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My deceased mother recorded a message, and I would like to
convert it to CD Rom to preserve for my children.

With the MS Sound Recorder, it only records 60 seconds.
How can I set that to record an hour?
 
The following describes MicroSoft's recommendation of a very clumsy way
of doing it (for Win95 and Win98, but I imagine it'll work in XP too):
http://tinyurl.com/6utc

You might be better off getting a more full-featured sound recording
app. A quick look found something called PolderbitS Sound Recorder,
which seems as if it would do just what you want, but I've never used it
and have no opinion about it one way or the other. Take a look:
http://tinyurl.com/mn1m

If you stay with Sound Recorder ---

because you are recording spoken audio, you don't need CD-quality
sound. Note that at high quality, a wav file is about 170KB/sec -- thus
an hour of that would be 612,000 KB. To get a more manageable file
size, go to the File menu in Sound Recorder and click Properties, then
"Convert Now" and select one of the lower-fidelity formats. And as you
would expect, mono takes up less space than stereo. Unless your tape
was recorded with two mikes, mono is all you need.
 
Sandy said:
My deceased mother recorded a message, and I would like to
convert it to CD Rom to preserve for my children.

With the MS Sound Recorder, it only records 60 seconds.
How can I set that to record an hour?
Click to expand...

Google Is Your Friend(tm). I put in the search term, "how to convert
cassette tape to cd-r" and got back scads of links. Go ahead and try it
and pick some links that look good to you.

Malke
 
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