World: r3wp

They'll poke their eyes out.

They'll fall down and break their neck.

Worse yet, they might catch cold and die.

I'd guess the Perl community is several hundred times bigger than 
the REBOL one.
So more likely to include yokels and trolls.
One day, maybe the REBOL community will be that unruly :-(

has anyone heard from Ashley?

 Back in Melbourne after 3 weeks in NSW. Just doing my yearly Windows 
 reinstall and using http://www.litepc.com/xplite.htmlto really trim 
 things back this time! ;)

interesting tool ...

mmm... is the trial time-limited ?

rebol needs this sort of press in 2005 - http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:zd71TB8RgKgJ:www.bbs.ingedigit.com/TechInfo/rebol/inthenews.html 
- of late it seems to have disappeared off the radar in most tech 
circles.

Ahh thanks Ammon

has anyone used the lame-enc.dll for converting stuff to mp3 ?  http://www.fi.muni.cz/~qruzicka/Smid/man.htm.iso-8859-1

I think an application I installed could use it as a plugin, just 
by copying it into the program dir...

...but you probably mean api calls to it

yeah ....

then no... :) sorry

but there is a command line version as well

are you having trouble with it ?

that's probably just a command-line wrapper around the dll ...  where 
to get this command line version ?

I just saw it while I was surfing ...

LAMEEnc   http://www.mp3dev.org/

a gnu thingy ...

Sweet, I think I got my first hit as a result of a REBOL-related 
search on Google today :-)

Lame ain't an MP3 encoder

you're trying to connect this back to Q aren't you?

nope.

That's not what it says at mp3dev.org : "LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder."

ok

% lame [options] inputfile [outputfile]

I want a way to generate mp3 voice mail .. this does the mp3 encoding.

Now to find a way to actually record a wav file from within rebol.

dunno why, but the windows sound recorder seems to record my voice 
very soft ... can't hear the results audibly.

I would like to do that too.

Got my microphone all the way up high too.

There is a 20dB mic boost option in the windows sound options.

Go into properties and select recording options (I think.) It's such 
a damn confusing user interface...!

Once microphone is selected to be displayed, then you can click on 
Advanced to get the 20dB boost.

properties?

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices

under Volume/Device Volume, tick "Place Volume Icon in the taskbar"

click OK.  Double click on the volume icon in the task bar -> now 
properties

(Options/properties)

must be hardware specific ..

don't see such an option

very odd because when I use skype, people can hear me fine when I 
use the same setup.

hey, I found a microphone boost option after all!  :)

it was on the recording control screen, and there was an advanced 
button at the bottom middle

Of course, where else would it be?

I"d swear that button wasn't there before! :)

It probably wasn't

:) like I said, it's a difficult interface

there's  win32 program out there called mpegrec.exe which records 
straight from mic or line in to mp3