From: steve marchant on

<chrisj.doran(a)proemail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 26 Sep, 01:12, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnlll>
> wrote:
>> steve marchant wrote:
>> > "Sinner" <sin...(a)gatesofhell.org> wrote in message
>> >news:cKKCk.39760$bx1.9353(a)bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>> >> This might help:
>>
>> >>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284893/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
>>
>> > It did, thanks. Big of MS to confess it's their software to blame. Pity
>> > they
>> > don't seem to offer a fix.
>>
>> Audacity (google) is a nice free recorder, even for live audio
>> streams.
>
> The easy way to get around the Sound Recorder time limit is to make a
> copy of an existing bigger WAV file and record over it. But I agree
> that that for anything serious you need to use something else like
> Audacity. WAV files quickly get huge; Audacity can save in vastly
> smaller MP3s and others.
>
> Beware when making any important live recording that other things on
> XP which present huge CPU loads can cause recording losses. My pet
> unfavourites are the bugs in Firefox and McAfee that make them go to
> 99% for minutes at a time.
>
> Chris
Thanks, guys, just dowloaded audacity. Looks great. Don't know why I ever
bothered with xp sound recorder


From: Sjouke Burry on
steve marchant wrote:
> <chrisj.doran(a)proemail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4968c40e-0ecc-43fb-a678-6b5009f65837(a)l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>> On 26 Sep, 01:12, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnlll>
>> wrote:
>>> steve marchant wrote:
>>>> "Sinner" <sin...(a)gatesofhell.org> wrote in message
>>>> news:cKKCk.39760$bx1.9353(a)bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>>>> This might help:
>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284893/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
>>>> It did, thanks. Big of MS to confess it's their software to blame. Pity
>>>> they
>>>> don't seem to offer a fix.
>>> Audacity (google) is a nice free recorder, even for live audio
>>> streams.
>> The easy way to get around the Sound Recorder time limit is to make a
>> copy of an existing bigger WAV file and record over it. But I agree
>> that that for anything serious you need to use something else like
>> Audacity. WAV files quickly get huge; Audacity can save in vastly
>> smaller MP3s and others.
>>
>> Beware when making any important live recording that other things on
>> XP which present huge CPU loads can cause recording losses. My pet
>> unfavourites are the bugs in Firefox and McAfee that make them go to
>> 99% for minutes at a time.
>>
>> Chris
> Thanks, guys, just dowloaded audacity. Looks great. Don't know why I ever
> bothered with xp sound recorder
>
>
J'r welcome. :)
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