From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Apr 13 11:39:36 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 13 Apr 2002 18:39:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 30797 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2002 18:38:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Apr 2002 18:38:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2002 18:38:17 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g3DIcHi15719 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:38:17 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:38:17 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] how to record audio clips (was: Re: xirli'u selsanga) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13986 On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, And Rosta wrote: > Now, what gear do I need to record myself? (No unix bollocks, I'm a win98 > neanderthal.) Get a microphone. Plug it into the correct jack of your computer's sound card. (A US$20-$30 pair of headphones will actually work, as well, and be much higher quality. Just plug them into the microphone jack, and speak into the earpieces. I swear.) Download the Dionysus MP3 Encoder, pull the files out of the zip file, and stick them in whatever folder you find convinent. (I am in the process of uploading the Dionysys encoder to the mailing list files area.) Pull up the Windows "Volume Control". Then in Volume Control, go to the Properties submenu of 'Options'. Select the 'Recording' radio button. Hit 'OK'. You'll be presented with volume controls for a number of audio in connections. Click the checkbox next to 'Select', underneath the "Mic Volume" slider. You'll probably need to move the slider volume all the way up. Leave Volume Control running, as you may need to adjust the mic volume. Find "Sound Recorder". (Probably Start Menu -> Accessories -> Entertainment) Run it. Then, under the File menu, select "Properties". Click the "Convert Now" button. Under the "Attributes" combo box, look for "44.100 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono 86kb/sec". Select it. Click OK. Click OK again. Now you can use sound recorder as you would expect. The red dot record button will start recording from the mic, appending it to the end of whatever else has been recorded. The stop button will stop recording. If you want to discard what has been recorded so far, go to the File menu, and select "New". Once you've gotten whatever you want recorded, got back to the File menu, and click on "Save As". Save it, wherever you'll be able to find it again. Repeat the above for however many sound clips you'd like to produce. And, actually when I just tried it, the "Save As" dialog didn't reflect the changes made in the properties. So if at the bottom of the "Save As" dialog, you don't see what was previously picked (44.1kHz, 16 bit mono), then click on 'Change' again and set it. Now, go find wherever you put the Dionysus MP3 Encoder, and start it. Click the "Browse for the files individually" button. Find the files that you just recorded, and add them to the list of files to be encoded. Click on the "Stereo Mode" combo box, find the "Mono" selection, and pick it. You'll now have an MP3 file of whatever you recorded. Then, happily go about distributing it. :) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose