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Michael Casey
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 13:48 (GMT) Post subject: BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE? |
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Pardon the intervention of this beginner, guys.
But I'm struggling along with the woefully limited Windows Sound Recorder right now and urgently need to download some more versatile software for MP3 recordings.
I would be most grateful for any advice.
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Cameron Thomas
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 13:56 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Michael,
Hey, I forgot to mention in my previous note that Audacity is free editing software. I tried it out a while back and it seemed to work just fine. I'm pretty sure it saves as MP3 although I didn't confirm. Maybe someone else who uses it here can help out more.
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Michael Casey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 14:01 (GMT) Post subject: BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE? |
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Thanks again, Cameron - you're a gentleman, sir!
I've just found something called MP3 Audio Sound Recorder 1.52, whatever the heck that means!
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Michael Casey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 14:12 (GMT) Post subject: BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE? |
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Brian, that's magnificent. Thanks for your trouble and I will indeed take your advice.
Best wishes,
Mike |
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Keith D. Milby
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 14:47 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Sony Sound Forge
Free for 30 days
$69 if you want to buy. |
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Michael Casey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 15:49 (GMT) Post subject: BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE? |
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Noted, Keith - many thanks!
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Colin Campbell
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007, 18:27 (GMT) Post subject: |
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The free Audacity can "export" to .mp3 if you diownload the LAME encoder. The link to that is at the same site...
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
It is a zip file so when you extract it, put it somewhere where you know where it is... something like c:\program files\audacity\lame
The first time you export to mp3 it will ask you where you put it.
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Michael Casey
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 00:04 (GMT) Post subject: BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE? |
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Me again, guys. I've downloaded the Sony Sound Forge for a trial period, and it's pretty much all I need. But it is saving files in SFK format, which I can't appear to open.
I'm sure there's a blindingly obvious answer and would be grateful for enlightenment!
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Tom Greenlee
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I'm not sure, but I believe the SFK files are paired with the wav or mp3 file that you saved. Adobe Audition saves a file too...I forget what it is, but it contains all the information of what you've done to the file so that when you open the original file up it loads faster. I believe that may be the same with the SFK file. Audition has the choice under options to not save those files. Maybe Sound Forge does as well.
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Colin Campbell
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 00:36 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Yes... adobe saves a .pk file when you save a .wav file which is essentially a "picture" of the wave form so that it opens faster later. You can freely delete these .pk files, Audition will just recreate them. You can also turn off that feature and it really doesn't have much effect on performance. Also, when you do multi-track in Audition it will save all it's "pionters" to individual audio files as .ses (session) files. These don't contain any audio but simply where everything is. What I usually do is "mixdown" in multi-track, then call up edit view and save the mixdown. Unless I am going to revisit the multi-track... then I try to save the "session" but it's maddening keeping track of where everything is and not overwriting a file that you have further edited back to the original.
Audacity simillarly can/will save a "session" file but I forget the extension.
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Micheal,
In Sound Forge you can "Save As" several formats, MP3 being one of those. It will create the SFK file, but I just trash them. Best of luck!
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