RANT: Win 7 sound recorder.

[StrangerGuy]

Dear Microsoft,

Do you have to change things just for the sake of changing? Take this little app known as Sound Recorder. In XP, I can record and play voices with the same little app. However, your brand new, highly acclaimed OS comes with the same app but can only record. WHY?! Is there even a good reason to so? Like placing "Sound Recorder is now 100% more shitter compared to Windows ME" as a feature?

P.S Fix your goddamn Minesweeper while you are at it. Blue and green background, in a game with blue & green numbers...You do the math.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Hah, it's just as shitty in Vista. You can probably thank the RIAA for that decision, though.

 

[vshah]

Hah, it's just as shitty in Vista. You can probably thank the RIAA for that decision, though.

why would the RIAA not want windows sound recorder to play back a recording?

 

[ElFenix]

why would the RIAA not want windows sound recorder to play back a recording?

nothing they do makes sense, so why would that?

 

[zerogear]

Dear Microsoft,

Do you have to change things just for the sake of changing? Take this little app known as Sound Recorder. In XP, I can record and play voices with the same little app. However, your brand new, highly acclaimed OS comes with the same app but can only record. WHY?! Is there even a good reason to so? Like placing "Sound Recorder is now 100% more shitter compared to Windows ME" as a feature?

P.S Fix your goddamn Minesweeper while you are at it. Blue and green background, in a game with blue & green numbers...You do the math.

Hi. Audacity?

 

[shortylickens]

Fuck them.
They fucked up almost everything with the Vista/7 move. But thank god we now have proper 64-bit, cuz lord knows how much software needs 64-bit code.

 

[FelixDeCat]

This is why I stubbornly stick with XP. The original Windows Sound Recorder is great when it comes to snatching audio when absolutely necessary from sources that are trying to prevent you from getting it. You can also slow down 100%, do true reverse, etc. Although I do use Nero Sound Editor, Sound Recorder is compact, quick and certainly indispensable.

IIRC there is a replacement program that closely resembles Sound Recorder in design, form and functionality. I used it once when I was trying to tolerate Vista.

edit: lookup audicty as a replacement

 

[syrillus]

This is why I stubbornly stick with XP. The original Windows Sound Recorder is great when it comes to snatching audio when absolutely necessary from sources that are trying to prevent you from getting it. You can also slow down 100%, do true reverse, etc. Although I do use Nero Sound Editor, Sound Recorder is compact, quick and certainly indispensable.

IIRC there is a replacement program that closely resembles Sound Recorder in design, form and functionality. I used it once when I was trying to tolerate Vista.

edit: lookup audicty as a replacement

You stuck with XP because of Sound Recorder? Really? D:

 

[OOBradm]

This is why I stubbornly stick with XP. The original Windows Sound Recorder is great when it comes to snatching audio when absolutely necessary from sources that are trying to prevent you from getting it. You can also slow down 100%, do true reverse, etc. Although I do use Nero Sound Editor, Sound Recorder is compact, quick and certainly indispensable.

IIRC there is a replacement program that closely resembles Sound Recorder in design, form and functionality. I used it once when I was trying to tolerate Vista.

edit: lookup audicty as a replacement

I agree with all of this. I was severly disheartened when I opened sound recorder and I could only record. Not to mention the delete before and delete after cursor functions were life savers when trying to crop a sound down...

 

[LTC8K6]

You can't run XP's sound recorder in Vista or 7?

 

[dullard]

I agree with the stupid changes (although sound recorder hasn't been one of them). The change that really gets me is Paint. Paint is such a simple program, yet they screw it up. The most useful tool (the one tool that Paint had as an advantage over ANY other program and the one you need the quickest access to) is the opaque/transparent setting. In XP paint, it automatically pops up whenever you have something selected. But, in the new paint, you have to find it buried in a drop down menu option. Moving the most commonly used tool from the main screen to a buried drop down menu was completely stupid. Especially stupid when most of the other changes were to get things OUT of the drop down menus.

Now, I use GIMP, Paint 2.0, Photoshop, etc with decent skill. But Paint had those all beat when you needed to quickly label a picture or graph. Now with the new castrated Paint, nothing does it quickly.

 

[FelixDeCat]

You stuck with XP because of Sound Recorder? Really? D:

That was the first straw. There were others. The straw that broke the camels back was not being able to run DOS programs in full screen mode.

Why the heck would those crackheads in Redmond not allow you to run DOS in full screen mode anymore? All my old favorites would no longer play in Vista.

Yes, there is DOSBOX, but why screw up a good thing? WHY!

AND dont even get me started on OFFICE 2007. I was stubbornly sticking with O2K3 because I loath the ribbon. They hid all the useful functions in stupid cryptic menus, etc. I only installed that crap because 2k7 is slowly becomming the standard, especially with 2k10 on the way and more employers demanding "pivot table" experience which 2k3 doesnt have.

 

[GeekDrew]

employers demanding "pivot table" experience which 2k3 doesnt have.

It doesn't? :confused;

 

[TechBoyJK]

THERE IS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH AUDIO RECORDING SOFTWARE IN 7 HAVING LATENCY. Aparently Win7's audio engine interjects itself into the hardware processing which can cause up to a 1 second delay in "what you hear".

So like in XP, I could be running Mixcraft, (an audio mixing program) have it set to record AND Monitor my line in, which I have a guitar plugged into. As I played the guitar, what was being recorded was simulataneously played and recorded at the same time.

So if I had a drum track as track 1, and was recording into track 2, I could listen to the drum track as I record. What I record would line up perfectly with the drum track, as I played it.

Now, in win7, if I record something along with teh drums, what I hear in the monitor will be about one second behind what I'm actually doing. It's all over Microsoft's forums with no solution as of yet.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

THERE IS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH AUDIO RECORDING SOFTWARE IN 7 HAVING LATENCY. Aparently Win7's audio engine interjects itself into the hardware processing which can cause up to a 1 second delay in "what you hear".

So like in XP, I could be running Mixcraft, (an audio mixing program) have it set to record AND Monitor my line in, which I have a guitar plugged into. As I played the guitar, what was being recorded was simulataneously played and recorded at the same time.

So if I had a drum track as track 1, and was recording into track 2, I could listen to the drum track as I record. What I record would line up perfectly with the drum track, as I played it.

Now, in win7, if I record something along with teh drums, what I hear in the monitor will be about one second behind what I'm actually doing. It's all over Microsoft's forums with no solution as of yet.

would ASIO or wasapi bypass all of the OS's processing or latency?

 

[QueBert]

THERE IS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH AUDIO RECORDING SOFTWARE IN 7 HAVING LATENCY. Aparently Win7's audio engine interjects itself into the hardware processing which can cause up to a 1 second delay in "what you hear".

So like in XP, I could be running Mixcraft, (an audio mixing program) have it set to record AND Monitor my line in, which I have a guitar plugged into. As I played the guitar, what was being recorded was simulataneously played and recorded at the same time.

So if I had a drum track as track 1, and was recording into track 2, I could listen to the drum track as I record. What I record would line up perfectly with the drum track, as I played it.

Now, in win7, if I record something along with teh drums, what I hear in the monitor will be about one second behind what I'm actually doing. It's all over Microsoft's forums with no solution as of yet.

Damn, I have not heard about this! I use Cool Edit Pro to multitrack, it sounds like in Win 7 I'm going to be screwed. Luckily I installed Snow Leopard on my Hackintosh and can do my multi tracking there.

 

[Lifted]

It's worse than you think. Sound Recorder in XP and earlier versions had the ability to record wav files in just about any format one required. Many of those options are gone in Vista and 7 making it useless to me.

Thankfully the version in XP is small and only the exe needs to be copied over from XP and Sound Recorder is back in all it's glory.

 

[Mike Gayner]

People will bitch about anything, huh?