Record sounds from computer speaker

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I have an assembly program that plays a
siren sound through the computer's
speaker. Is there an app that can record
it to a playable file.

Thanks.
 
Andy said:
I have an assembly program that plays a
siren sound through the computer's
speaker. Is there an app that can record
it to a playable file.
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Stepvoice Recorder:

StepVoice Recorder is real-time recording software with MP3 file format
support. It allows recording from any sound source, such as microphone,
line in or any sounds currently playing on your PC (internet radio, movie
sounds, etc.).

Now shareware, but last freeware version is still available on their
downloadpage:

http://stepvoice.com/download.html
 
I have an assembly program that plays a
siren sound through the computer's
speaker. Is there an app that can record
it to a playable file.
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Other than a microphone, none.
 
A program called Freecorder can record from various inputs (mic,
speakers, inline) to MP3 format.

http://www.freecorder.com/
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Very much crippleware, for 19,95 you get:

Buy an upgrade now and you can:

* Record at 128 Kbps CD Quality.
* Eliminate silence from your recordings.
* Record for more than 30 minutes.
* Pause and Resume recordings.
* Automatically name recordings.
* Adds Title Tags to MP3 files.
* See no more ads.

:(

For freeware alternatives:
Stepvoice Recorder:
StepVoice Recorder is real-time recording software with MP3 file format
support. It allows recording from any sound source, such as microphone,
line in or any sounds currently playing on your PC (internet radio, movie
sounds, etc.).
Now shareware, but last freeware version is still available on their
downloadpage:
http://stepvoice.com/download.html

Audacity, the Lame MP3 encoder libary is on the download page.
info: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php
download http://audacity.sourceforge.net/windows.php

Absolute MP3 Recorder 1.0
Absolute MP3 Recorder is a software-based solution allowing you to record
the sound of your PC directly to an MP3 file. No hardware, no wires, no
drivers.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/999168684/1
 
Andy said:
I have an assembly program that plays a
siren sound through the computer's
speaker. Is there an app that can record
it to a playable file.
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Unless I'm missing something, Windows Sound Recorder.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
dadiOH said:
Unless I'm missing something, Windows Sound Recorder.
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Now I'm sure I'm right about your sig being raped by your wrapping.
Short line that doesn't need wrapping > good sig....
And because I'm obsessed by your wrap/sig-issues I check about every post
you make. Last one before this wrapped good and had a bad sig.
 
Rod said:
Now I'm sure I'm right about your sig being raped by your
wrapping.
Short line that doesn't need wrapping > good sig....
And because I'm obsessed by your wrap/sig-issues I check about
every post you make. Last one before this wrapped good and had
a bad sig.
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And the solution is....?

I just changed the line wrap from 70 to 65 in both OE and
QuoteFix just to see if that makes any difference. Plus, I'm
typing extra just to be sure it is long :)

Also tried (some time ago) the ISO-8859 thing for QuoteFix,
seemed to do the opposite of what it was supposed to do.


--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
Andy said:
Unless I'm missing something, Windows Sound Recorder.
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Doesn't work. Sound recorder requires an input device like a
microphone.
My app makes sounds directly thru the computer's built in
speaker. The sound is independent of my SB sound card.

I'll probably just have to download a .voc file of a siren
sound.
 
dadiOH wrote:

BTW, if I respond to myself the sig is stripped regardless of
line length.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
dadiOH said:
And the solution is....?
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Since you're hooked on OE, a solution could be to 'upgrade' to OE 6.
I assume your current version has all the patches.

BTW, do you run XP SP2 ? I'm asking this because I read the following in
the Quotefix FAQ:

"Some features do not work correctly with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
How can I fix that?
In OE, uncheck "Block Images in HTML e-mail" under Tools - Options -
Security - Download Images. You may need to restart the PC (or at least OE)
afterwards."
I just changed the line wrap from 70 to 65 in both OE and
QuoteFix just to see if that makes any difference. Plus, I'm
typing extra just to be sure it is long :)
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It's long, it wraps fine and your sig is bad again.
Did you BTW try to set it at 72 ? I thought that's the OE standard.
Also tried (some time ago) the ISO-8859 thing for QuoteFix,
seemed to do the opposite of what it was supposed to do.
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Yes, being obsessed with this case I remember you did that, too bad it
didn't help.
 
dadiOH said:
dadiOH wrote:

BTW, if I respond to myself the sig is stripped regardless of
line length.
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Could be OE being able to fix bad sigs when replying. That would be funny,
creating bad sigs and being to able to fix them in replies.
 
I have an assembly program that plays a
siren sound through the computer's
speaker. Is there an app that can record
it to a playable file.
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It's not very likely that you can get this done by another way than
recording the sound-output with a microphone.

Your assembly program will use the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) for
sound creation. This timer is accessed from assembly programs by direct
output to its ports, generally.

To intercept the communication between your program and the port an
intermediate program would need to run as a wrapper to your main
program (emulator). I don't think that anybody somewhere ever thought
it necessary to undergo these efforts. It would be even simpler to
replace the speaker by some signal recognition device to get the exact
signals extracted. ;-)

BeAr
 
Rod said:
Since you're hooked on OE, a solution could be to 'upgrade' to
OE 6.
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Ugh. It's not so much that I am hooked on OE, just used to it. Tried
all the others -Xnews, Gravity, etc. - at one time or another.
I assume your current version has all the patches.
Yeah

BTW, do you run XP SP2 ?
98SE


It's long, it wraps fine and your sig is bad again.
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Are we sure - 100% double sure - that it isn't your Xnews?
Did you BTW try to set it at 72 ? I thought that's the OE
standard.
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No, but I just did...just for you :)

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
It's not very likely that you can get this done by another
way than recording the sound-output with a microphone.

Your assembly program will use the Programmable Interval
Timer (PIT) for sound creation. This timer is accessed
from assembly programs by direct output to its ports,
generally.
To intercept the communication between your program and
the port an intermediate program would need to run as a
wrapper to your main program (emulator). I don't think
that anybody somewhere ever thought it necessary to
undergo these efforts. It would be even simpler to
replace the speaker by some signal recognition device to
get the exact signals extracted. ;-)
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I just searched and found a siren wav file. I used Sound
Recorder to shorten
it to meet my needs.
 
dadiOH said:
Ugh. It's not so much that I am hooked on OE, just used to it. Tried
all the others -Xnews, Gravity, etc. - at one time or another.
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Ah, the long traveled road. You could end up happy doing it again. I began
with OE 5.5, tried a few others for a while, didn't feel comfortable with
any of them, went to OE 6, used it for a year, tried a few others again,
and just loving my current newsreader which is totally different than OE.
Yeah
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Thank god.
98SE
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Thank god.
Are we sure - 100% double sure - that it isn't your Xnews?
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Don't know about the 'we'-part, but I am :)
I remember Agent-users a while back confirming what my Xnews made of your
posts.
Also, I've checked the Google database for somw of your posts (not all of
them there yet, so I picked one from another thread.
This post:
http://tinyurl.com/3nstr
your sig has the same (black) color as the rest of your post, it's a bad
sig.

while in:
http://tinyurl.com/4fgbx
you're sig is a different color, like all the other sig of the posts above
yours. Good sig.

Here are some links, in the hope some people with other newsreaders check
this and report back:

has a good sig.

has a bad sig.
No, but I just did...just for you :)
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I'm flattered :) Too bad that as a total surprise it didn't change anything
about your sig
 
Rod said:
This post:
http://tinyurl.com/3nstr
your sig has the same (black) color as the rest of your post, it's a bad
sig.

while in:
http://tinyurl.com/4fgbx
you're sig is a different color, like all the other sig of the posts above
yours. Good sig.

Here are some links, in the hope some people with other newsreaders check
this and report back:

has a good sig.

news:[email protected] has a bad sig.
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If I want to see if ther is a good sig format in the post I'm reading,
I just point my mouse's little i-beam thingy next to the hyphen pair,
to see if it stops there or finds a space.

The reader I use (Agent), it does the hack-for-OE thing: It will drop a
sig from followup even when the space is missing. But you bring up a good
point on the Google reading, and on all the many readers which don't code
in a special OE wheelchair ramp.

What surprises me on this whole lack of fix in Dadioh's attempts, it's that
there has been no advice coming in from any of the OE-quotefix users. (??)
 
Here are some links, in the hope some people with other
newsreaders check this and report back:

has a good sig.

news:[email protected] has a bad sig.
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Opening them in a hex editor makes it clear that the good ones have the
dashdashspace delimiters and the bad ones are missing the space. I
don't think there is any reliable way to fix that for OE5.5, though
Fidolook might do it.
 
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