Recording sound directly to files

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I use my laptop with a seperate microphone to record college classes.
(Yeah, the laptop is a bit oversized, but it's all I've got -- plus, I use
it for note-taking too.) My classes last about 75 or 80 minutes, and at
their end, I've a huge chunk of sound data to save to WAV form in GoldWave
(not freeware, but great) for later hiss-removal, trimming, and
conversion. My question is, is there any freeware that will let me record
sound directly to a file instead of to my laptop's memory, so that I don't
have to spend 10 minutes saving the files at the end of class? (Basically,
it would save as it goes.) Thanks for any help.
 
My question is, is there any
freeware that will let me record sound directly to a file instead of
to my laptop's memory, so that I don't have to spend 10 minutes
saving the files at the end of class? (Basically, it would save as it
goes.)
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Try HarddiskOGG. It'll record directly from your line-in to MP3 (or OGG
Vorbis). It supports on-the-fly normalization and a lot of other good
stuff. I use it to record songs from the radio.

I'd recommend OGG Vorbis, since it'll allow you to use a lower bitrate
(compared to MP3) without any quality loss. This means smaller files
and that's always a good thing. Experiment in the 32 kbit to 96 kbit
range and find a compromise that you can live with.

If your students have a newish version of Winamp, they should be able
to play an OGG Vorbis file just fine.

http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php
 
["Rhexis"; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:51:43 GMT]
If your students have a newish version of Winamp, they should be able
to play an OGG Vorbis file just fine.
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Whoops! Sorry -- I \am\ the student! ^_^ Thanks for the reply.
 
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