What ever happened to the old Windows 95 era WAV edtior?

[Will Pittenger]

I would like to edit some of the WAV files that where installed by XP Pro so
that I can hear them over the music played by WMP. It seems that WMP (or
any other MP3/WMA player that I have seen) has a volume control specific to
the music. The volume control that you see in the players window is the
master volume. I also added every output volume to the volume control
window provided by XP, but none appears to affect the problem.

I would probably take any method that allows me to hear things like the
sound that Outlook plays when new mail arrives over my music. Ditto for
most similar sounds used for notification.

 

[NetNut]

Hi Will,
When you double click the volume control, the mixer panel "should" pop
up.
Turn the wavs volume up or down as you please.
The NetNut

 

[Robert Bodling]

Wait second. I am attempting to hear the wave files that Windows plays over
WMP and you tell me to turn down both? As I stated in my original post,
that volume control apparently controls both WMP's volume and the sounds
played by Windows. See the attached printscreen and note the name of the
control that I highlighted.

As he stated above, mine controls the windows sound files over the
music's volume...

 

[NetNut]

You might try to look for updated Audio Drivers. Turning up the Wav volume
slider and the Mp3 slider down, should help. If You do not have an Mp3
volume slider (I thought you implied you did), then of course your audio
device does not support that feature. You are not totally lost.
If you simply want to increase the volume of certain wav files,
navigate to the file, right click and select Record. When the sound editor
pops up, select Effects. Increase volume, file, save.
Is that what you were looking for?
The NetNut

 

[Will Pittenger]

Yes that is it. However, the part about the sound editor does not appear to
be an option. See the attachment for a image of my context menu when I
right click on a WAV file.

 

[Will Pittenger]

My Sound Blaster Audigy driver and related software did turn out to be out
of date. However, upgrading had only one effect: That control that was
"Wave/MP3" is now just Wave. I did check to see if there were hidden
controls and there are none. BTW: The Creative Mixer is the same thing,
only with a Creative designed skin, and it lists this field as "Wave/MP3'
still.

 

[NetNut]

If the default recorder is installed, it should be in Start> All
Programs> Acceseries> Entertainment> Sound Recorder. If it is not installed,
try downloading and installing Creatives Recorder.
NetNut

 

[Will Pittenger]

The default recorder is not listed. Creative's recorder is installed, but
does not seem to support editing (as in amplifying sound which 95's wave
editor could do).

 

[NetNut]

Sorry Will,
Unless sndrec32.exe is found in the system32 folder, it is the first time
I've heard of the default sound recorder not being installed (by default).
It was not listed under add and remove windows components, so unless some
else knows how it can be installed, I can only suggest you try installing a
3rd party sound recorder/ editor.
I know the Roxio sound editor has the feature you are looking for (it come
with easy cd creator,cd burning software). I see lots of other free sound
recorders/editors available on-line (try a google search). I would not know
enough to recommend one.
Best of luck, The NetNut

 

[Will Pittenger]

It helps to have a filename. I ran two searches. One searched my entire
system and supposedly all drives. It turned up nothing. So I checked the
exact path you mentioned. I did not find sndrec32.exe there. The closest I
could come was sndvol32.exe. So I ran a second search of just C:\Windows
and its subdirectories. That found it in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache. I
do not understand why the first search did not find it. Still, it would
work. About the only better thing would be separate Wave and MP3 volume
controls that Creative seems unwilling to offer.

 

[Will Pittenger]

Since the previous post, I did increase the volume for most of the WAV
files. I left out the files that play when WMP is not likely to be running.
(Those were Start Up, Shut Down, Log In, and Log Out.) I was unable to
increase the volume of MID files as SndRec32.exe did not consider them to be
valid files.

 

[NetNut]

You found it, great. I wonder if, if you drop it back into the system32
folder and reboot, if the record option will show up when you left click on
a wav file?? |Unfortunately it is rather limited in it's abilities. But it
is better then nothing. If you want to do mid files also, third party
software is the way to go.
Glad I could be of some help.
The NetNut

 

[Will Pittenger]

I already made it the default program for that type. Too late for your
test.