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Help with Sound Recorder- length of file

How do/can I change the length of available recording for the sound recorder
included in the accessories programs of my PC? It provides for a 60 second
file and I don't see any setting to lengthen the file... or preferably to
allow me to record until finished and not have to guess the length a
recording will be? thanks for any help !!!
 
Help said:
How do/can I change the length of available recording for the sound recorder
included in the accessories programs of my PC? It provides for a 60 second
file and I don't see any setting to lengthen the file... or preferably to
allow me to record until finished and not have to guess the length a
recording will be? thanks for any help !!!
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You might try Google for workarounds on how to extend the recording
time, but I'd suggest an alternative program like Audacity (open source)
where you can do a lot more than you can with sound recorder.

Bill
 
Start > programs > accessories > entertainment > sound recorder

To create a 6 min file,
Click on record, when time runs out (after 1 min), click on record again.
Do this 6 times.

(I created a file that is 18 minutes long that I use to record my phone
answering machine every so often).

After creating the 6 min file, open it and begin recording something
(rerecord).
The recording can then be edited if any of the 6 minutes are not used.

JE



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philo said:
Wow

pretty clever!
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Neat!

I just created a 1 hour long WAV file in Audacity, with the Generate:DTMF_Tones,
then Export to a WAV file. The file is 315MB in size :-) That is so I can
open an absurdly large file with Sound Recorder.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I opened that with Sound Recorder, and sure enough, it says I have 3600 seconds
(1 hour) of recording time. I'm going to leave the recorder running now, to
see if it can run for an hour without "falling over". It'll be interesting
to see if it is buffering up the recording in memory, or in a temp file some
where. OK, I checked Task Manager, and "sndrec32.exe" is already using
316,904 KB of memory. So it does look like it is buffering the recording in RAM,
and file space won't be needed until I do "Save".

Paul
 
Paul said:
Neat!

I just created a 1 hour long WAV file in Audacity, with the
Generate:DTMF_Tones,
then Export to a WAV file. The file is 315MB in size :-) That is so I can
open an absurdly large file with Sound Recorder.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I opened that with Sound Recorder, and sure enough, it says I have 3600
seconds
(1 hour) of recording time. I'm going to leave the recorder running now, to
see if it can run for an hour without "falling over". It'll be interesting
to see if it is buffering up the recording in memory, or in a temp file
some
where. OK, I checked Task Manager, and "sndrec32.exe" is already using
316,904 KB of memory. So it does look like it is buffering the recording
in RAM,
and file space won't be needed until I do "Save".

Paul
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That's fine, but why not use Audacity itself to do the sound recording?

Bill
 
THANKS FOR HELPING ME! I thought I had progressed to some higher level of
sophistication in computer literacy but the basic sound recorder took me back
down to reality. It's nice of you all to spend the time to assist me - What
I've learned is that a "community" can be much more helpful and certaily much
less frustrating than dealing with the Amalgamated Megacorp in Washington
State!

Dennis
 
Bill said:
That's fine, but why not use Audacity itself to do the sound recording?

Bill
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I wanted to check and see if Sound Recorder could actually run for
a decent amount of time. And yes, it ran for the entire hour,
without crashing the computer :-) So using Jerry's technique, and
"priming" it with a big file, as long as there is enough system
memory, it works.

Paul
 
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