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We have just purchased a new Dell laptop. It's pretty much their cheapest model, I think it's a B130. Anyway, it has a CD burner, and we have never had one of these before. My daughter is downloading music files getting ready to burn them to a CD, and I got the bright idea that I could record analog music into the computer and then burn it to the CD.
So I hook up the cables to the mic jack and set it up for line in. I am using the little sound recorder that is in the programs/accessories/entertainment/sound recorder shortcut. It works great except I can only record 60 seconds worth of music.
What I am thinking(correct me if I am wrong) is I do not have enough ram in the computer for more than 60 seconds. The reason I think this is, it does not let me save to a file till after the recording is done. I am thinking because of this, it must be putting it all in ram till it's full. It will play music that is longer that 60 seconds, but that is playing a music file that is already on the hard drive. It will not record over 60 seconds.
Do you guys think this is the problem? What are my options? How much ram would I need for an approximately 4 min song? Are there any programs or gizmos that will record to ram and then to a file on the hard drive on the fly?
Thanks for any help.
So I hook up the cables to the mic jack and set it up for line in. I am using the little sound recorder that is in the programs/accessories/entertainment/sound recorder shortcut. It works great except I can only record 60 seconds worth of music.
What I am thinking(correct me if I am wrong) is I do not have enough ram in the computer for more than 60 seconds. The reason I think this is, it does not let me save to a file till after the recording is done. I am thinking because of this, it must be putting it all in ram till it's full. It will play music that is longer that 60 seconds, but that is playing a music file that is already on the hard drive. It will not record over 60 seconds.
Do you guys think this is the problem? What are my options? How much ram would I need for an approximately 4 min song? Are there any programs or gizmos that will record to ram and then to a file on the hard drive on the fly?
Thanks for any help.
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How much RAM do you have and what else do you have running at the same time ?
also clear out your cache of un-needed files & cookies to ( I think) possibly lessen the load before doing the recording.
There may be a setting for time and it maybe set for a ONE minute maximum as well.
also clear out your cache of un-needed files & cookies to ( I think) possibly lessen the load before doing the recording.
There may be a setting for time and it maybe set for a ONE minute maximum as well.
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Simple answer: that sound recorder program is a piece of crap. There is nothing wrong with your ram.
There is a way to record longer files with it but you are better off to go to tucows and download something from there.
I should add, if the computer has a cd burner, it likely has some sort of cd burning program which may have some sort of sound recording addon that you could use.
Here is a free program, Audiograbber, it is also the best cd ripping program there is. http://www.tucows.com/preview/193549
There is a way to record longer files with it but you are better off to go to tucows and download something from there.
I should add, if the computer has a cd burner, it likely has some sort of cd burning program which may have some sort of sound recording addon that you could use.
Here is a free program, Audiograbber, it is also the best cd ripping program there is. http://www.tucows.com/preview/193549
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