Sound recording

[LuckyDragon]

On you're computer is what I'm wondering about. I want to save some old tapes to CD. I can get my computer to record from the microphone jack but it will only allow me to record for 60sec at a time. Any one have any idea what I can do to get it to record a whole tape or at least long enough to record one song at a time.

 

[Weird Harold]

On you're computer is what I'm wondering about. I want to save some old tapes to CD. I can get my computer to record from the microphone jack but it will only allow me to record for 60sec at a time. Any one have any idea what I can do to get it to record a whole tape or at least long enough to record one song at a time.

You need to download a different sound recording program. At least I've never found a way to remove or even extend the time limit in Windows Soundrecorder.

 

[Dionysus2003]

Try this page at Tucows and see what you can find to help you

 

[jpred75]

Sound recorders

If you bought a retail computer (Compaq, Dell, etc) normally the audio card will have a set of audio type files. If you look through them you may have an audio recorder in there. Otherwise like it was mentioned before, www.tucows.com or www.download.com are good resources to find other free recorders with no time limit.

-J

 

[Paranoid039]

Re: Re: Sound recording

At least I've never found a way to remove or even extend the time limit in Windows Soundrecorder.

Easy as pie. Record say... 5 seconds of silence. go to effects, then decrease speed. keep decreasing the speed til you have the required (ish) length. then once you've recorded chop off the silence at the end.

another way is to hit record as soon as the 60 seconds has run out. it'll then record another 60 seconds. though this is less usefull for recording songs.

if you do use windows sound recorder, consider downloading a wav to mp3 converter - .wav files are HUGE compared to mp3s. There are a whole bunch of these for free on tucows.com. dBpower amp is my favourite.

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: Re: Sound recording

Easy as pie. Record say... 5 seconds of silence. go to effects, then decrease speed.

That's a work-around, and a rather complicated one at that. It only works with the limitations of SoundRecorder rather than altering or removing them.

 

[LuckyDragon]

Checked out tucows, I think I'm am going to try audiograbber. It is going to be freeware as of Feb. 9th and looked like it was well liked. Anyone try this particular one or heard any thing about it?

 

[jpschust]

ok im normally an audio recording engineer, but hey ill give you the easy solution.

the program you are looking for (For windows) is called cdwav. its freeware and no time limit on it. also allows easy wav splitting to cut your tracks up. Id suggest borrowing a copy of wavelab or soundforge if you are knowledgable so you could run some high pass filters on those recordings to take out your tape hiss.