Recording a wav file

[Muse]

I'm using a Windows 2000 Pro machine and the only thing I see to record a wave file from the Stero Mix on my sound card (Hercules GTXP), is Windows Recorder. But it only seems to allow recording a 60 second file. I poked around in the help and I can't find anything about this. How do I record, say, a 2 minute long file?

Also, is there another way I can record Wav files than with Windows Recorder? Thanks.

BTW, my immediate goal is to be able to create a CD that I can play on a regular audio CD player. It would be nice if I could make the sound source an MP3 file, but I'll use a .wav file if necessary.

 

[judoguru]

My friend you seem to be quite turned around. I dont think you can listen to .wav files on a normal CD player. You need to record the music in a special CD format (Redbook I think is one of them... but it doesnt matter). short story long what you need is CD burning software. I use Roxio EZCD creator. I hear Nero isnt all that bad either. But with EZCD you can burn MP3s onto CD in normal audio format. Unless I misunderstood your problem I think thats what you need. Happy burning!

 

[kylef]

Muse,

You can download Audacity from CNET. It's supposedly one of the better free audio recording programs around. It should definitely allow more than 60 seconds of record time!

Once you've got them in .WAV format, then of course you'll need CD Burning software to put the audio files onto an audio CD, but that's relatively straightforward.

Hope the software works for you! There are tons of commercial programs that will do it for you, but this one's free, and you might as well try it out first...

 

[Muse]

<< My friend you seem to be quite turned around. I dont think you can listen to .wav files on a normal CD player. You need to record the music in a special CD format (Redbook I think is one of them... but it doesnt matter). short story long what you need is CD burning software. I use Roxio EZCD creator. I hear Nero isnt all that bad either. But with EZCD you can burn MP3s onto CD in normal audio format. Unless I misunderstood your problem I think thats what you need. Happy burning! >>

I won't argue that I'm turned around. LOL. I did pretty much figure that you can't play .wav files off a CD in an audio CD player. Obviously, you can play them just fine on your computer, but that's another matter. I want to be able to play the audio I record in Windows 2000, either as a .wav or an MP3 (both would be cooler) from a CD inserted in a regular CD player. Now chances are this CD player will be blind to MP3 files. It might not even be able to read CDRW's, I'll have to experiment with that one. I do have the latest Nero and I kicked it up today and saw where Nero would create an audio CD from a .wav file, so I went about trying to create a nice .wav file to copy to a CDRW and see how things worked with a Nero burned audio CD in one of my CD players. However, I discovered that Windows 2000's audio recording program (Sound Recorder 5), defaults to recording 60 seconds and then stopping. I couldn't find anything in the GUI or the HTML Help about this or how to change it.

 

[Muse]

<< Muse,

You can download Audacity from CNET. It's supposedly one of the better free audio recording programs around. It should definitely allow more than 60 seconds of record time!

Once you've got them in .WAV format, then of course you'll need CD Burning software to put the audio files onto an audio CD, but that's relatively straightforward.

Hope the software works for you! There are tons of commercial programs that will do it for you, but this one's free, and you might as well try it out first... >>

Looks pretty good. I just DL'd it and am about to install. The comments at the site make it sound very OK. It's a good place to start, anyway. I have a freebie that records MP3's. Maybe Audacity records MP3s too. Thanks.

 

[Bleep]

I must be magic because I record all my cd's as wave files and they work just wonderfull in my cd player.
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