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From: steve marchant on 26 Sep 2008 09:08 <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$bx1.9353(a)bignews1.bellsouth.net... >> >> This might help: >> >> >>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284893/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH >> >> > It did, thanks. Big of MS to confess it's their software to blame. Pity >> > they >> > don't seem to offer a fix. >> >> Audacity (google) is a nice free recorder, even for live audio >> streams. > > The easy way to get around the Sound Recorder time limit is to make a > copy of an existing bigger WAV file and record over it. But I agree > that that for anything serious you need to use something else like > Audacity. WAV files quickly get huge; Audacity can save in vastly > smaller MP3s and others. > > Beware when making any important live recording that other things on > XP which present huge CPU loads can cause recording losses. My pet > unfavourites are the bugs in Firefox and McAfee that make them go to > 99% for minutes at a time. > > Chris Thanks, guys, just dowloaded audacity. Looks great. Don't know why I ever bothered with xp sound recorder
From: Sjouke Burry on 26 Sep 2008 23:35
steve marchant wrote: > <chrisj.doran(a)proemail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:4968c40e-0ecc-43fb-a678-6b5009f65837(a)l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... >> On 26 Sep, 01:12, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnlll> >> wrote: >>> steve marchant wrote: >>>> "Sinner" <sin...(a)gatesofhell.org> wrote in message >>>> news:cKKCk.39760$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. :) |