Sound Recorder

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http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ --> Tools > Record from Analog Input
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ --> File > Line in sampling
http://www.screamer-radio.com/

Ulrich
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I must admit that I have only tried the last two
None of these actually record ALL audio coming through the speakers.

Screamer Radio records only actual internet stations. It's very simple
to use, but it doesn't seem to be able to record certain other types of
streamed audio (such as the Real Audio streamed by the BBC).

Frigesoft's HarddiskOgg (http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php) WILL
record anything you can hear (including the 'clicks and pops and peeps'
produced by Windows when you make keystrokes etc - disable as
necessary).

Ian.
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Ian said:
I must admit that I have only tried the last two
None of these actually record ALL audio coming through the speakers.
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The OP didn't ask for that.
Frigesoft's HarddiskOgg (http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php) WILL
record anything you can hear (including the 'clicks and pops and peeps'
produced by Windows when you make keystrokes etc - disable as necessary).
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I believe CDex, Audiograbber and HarddiskOgg work on the same principle
so all of them should record the same thing. And from what I can gather,
they do, at least on my computer.

Ulrich
 
fc42 said:
In AudioGrabber, go to File and then Line In Sampling.
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Noted. Thanks for putting me right. Yes, it does work (or it will with a
little practice). It's a bit obscure, but I'm getting there!
Ian.
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Ian said:
I must admit that I have only tried the last two
None of these actually record ALL audio coming through the speakers.
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I've described my methods for recording Real streams out to another
external device earlier on this board. You may want to search out that post.

In brief, I'm using Media Player Classic bundled with the Real
Alternative codec set. MPC renders the Real streams out to the speakers.
I made an audio breakout box from which I plug in a cable terminated in
two mini-phone plugs. The second end goes either into a portable
cassette recorder or into an MP3 player's line input. The MP3 player
encodes the audio feed as an MP3 file. The playback,
encoded/decoded/encoded/decoded is very good!

My breakout box allows me to gang the computer's audio output to more
than one device. I later found that I could have bought something
similar: Although I made my own high-quality audio breakout box for this
purpose, I found something not as flexible but just as useful for this
at Big Lots (closeout chain) for $7. It's called an "Audio Hub," It's
got a leased GE logo on it, distributed by Jasco, UPC 0 30878 97950 4.
So, I can play the programs into a headset this way.

This is one way to do it. Suitable MP3 players are dirt cheap. For
non-music material, if the player will do an audio feed and if it allows
you to choose the MP3 compresion, you can squeeze the sound way down for
spoken word programs and you won't be bothered by the quality loss and
you'll get lots of time from "obsolete" memory capacity. My player has
"only" 356 megs memory, and stores a minimum of 4 hours of radio in
that, using a far better compression ratio than I could get by with.

Is this helpful?

Richard

Richard
 
My AudioGraber recorded SILENCE when I did as suggested (Line-in
sampling). It seemed to to me it should've been Line-out sampling to
be able to record. Here's my scenario:

1. started AudioGrabber
2. selected line-in sampling (which changed the audio grabber to a
recording mode
3. cllicked "START" (the triangular button)
4. On a browser window, I clicked listen to cartalk ( after some delay
I can hear the cartalk streaming thru teh speaker.
5. after about 5 minutes, I stopped the audograbber and looked at the
wav file. It was a good size.
6. open the wav file with a "wav" player and all I hear is silence.
where did I go wrong?
 
My AudioGraber recorded SILENCE when I did as suggested (Line-in
sampling). It seemed to to me it should've been Line-out sampling to
be able to record. Here's my scenario:

1. started AudioGrabber
2. selected line-in sampling (which changed the audio grabber to a
recording mode
3. cllicked "START" (the triangular button)
4. On a browser window, I clicked listen to cartalk ( after some delay
I can hear the cartalk streaming thru teh speaker.
5. after about 5 minutes, I stopped the audograbber and looked at the
wav file. It was a good size.
6. open the wav file with a "wav" player and all I hear is silence.
where did I go wrong?
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What channel was selected for recording on the system mixer? And what
are the channels listed? What is your sound card?

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dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
channel? I am not aware of channel setting. My system is Thinkpad 600e
laptop with XP Home.
 
channel? I am not aware of channel setting. My system is Thinkpad 600e
laptop with XP Home.
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Look on Windows Volume Control, recording.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
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My AudioGraber recorded SILENCE when I did as suggested (Line-in
sampling). It seemed to to me it should've been Line-out sampling to
be able to record. Here's my scenario:

1. started AudioGrabber
2. selected line-in sampling (which changed the audio grabber to a
recording mode
3. cllicked "START" (the triangular button)
4. On a browser window, I clicked listen to cartalk ( after some delay
I can hear the cartalk streaming thru teh speaker.
5. after about 5 minutes, I stopped the audograbber and looked at the
wav file. It was a good size.
6. open the wav file with a "wav" player and all I hear is silence.
where did I go wrong?
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After Step 2. When you switch to recording mode, there is a button on the
right called mixer. Choose that. Make sure "Wave Out" is checked. When
playing your Audio, you should see activity on the Volume Meter bars. Good
luck. (I can't tell you how long it took me to figure that out!)

P.S., I have to set my volume slide on the mixer pretty low to keep the
recording from blasting all the way over into the red and sounding distorted
on playback.[/QUOTE]
 
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