Do you have Audacity?
I needed to do some audio editing the other day. I had heard some people mention Cool Edit as a good multi-track audio editor for Windows. When I checked it out, though, I found that they had been bought out by Adobe and the product renamed to Audition. The only download of Cool Edit I could find was some crippled shareware version.
So I looked for an open source audio editor.
I found Audacity.
The program is sweet. I recorded some audio from an external source. Using a supported MP3 encoder called LAME, I was able to encode the audio I recorded as an MP3. I also messed around mixing some tracks. All in all, a great program. I think with Audacity and LAME, the total download size is less than 3MB.
cw
April 12th, 2004 at 12:39 am
How cumbersome was it to get it going? Pretty intuitive? A friend of mine and I are actually doing some recording (lame radio documentary style) and we’ve looked at a lot of programs. We record straight to mp3, though, on an Archos Jukebox. We had a heck of a time finding software that wasn’t designed for just ripping mp3s from a CD.
Can audacity record streaming to mp3?
April 13th, 2004 at 12:33 pm
It was quite intuitive. A nice windows installer. The “hardest” part is extracting LAME from a ZIP file and then pointing Audacity to the LAME .dll in the preferences.
It does allow the recording of streaming audio as long as your sound card supports it. I have set my recording device as “Wave Mixer” or something like that, and that will record whatever is being played over the speakers at the time. Pretty handy.