World: r3wp

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

uses lame as well for the mp3 encoding.

sounds promising. :)

Hmm.  I have to send a Control-C to stop it recording if I don't 
specify a time interval.

what would be better ?

just have to figure out how to send a control c ...

ahh.. I remembered which application uses lame_enc.dll   ->  audiograbber

this is pretty cool .. using lame.exe and mpegrec.exe I can record 
voice to mp3 .. now to see if I can get it done using Rebol to control 
it all.

simple as :   mpegrec -o c:\temp\graham.mp3

should be as easy as building a command line

I hope so.

mpegrec download page: http://www.netwaysglobal.com/mpegrec/

I don't see why there would be any problems with that.

lame.exe binary download page: http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dllame.html

no way I can see to send a control-c to terminate mpegrec

http://www.rebol.com/docs/shell.html

perhaps call/console ...

at least there is the mpegrec source.

have to put aside a year or first to learn C++

in mpegrec.cpp there is:

BOOL WINAPI terminateEarly(  DWORD dwCtrlType )
{
	++ctrl_c_hit;
	cerr << "(Stopping on CTRL-C)" << endl;
//	if(recorder) recorder->SignalRecordingToEnd();
	return TRUE;
}

I might try later to compile it but I have to go get some bread now...

I tried call/console .. but to pass the control-C back, I have to 
input that into the dos shell window and not the console.

yeah I don't think that's going to work.

I think the way to go is to convert the source into a DLL and recompile. 
I would like to try a bit later - but first - bread.

bread it is :)

I've got voicemail working but ... have to control c into the dos 
shell.

bah, no luck compiling mpegrec using bloodshed C++ environment - 
need MS Visual Studio environment

my hacking attempts just led to very obscure bugs that I can't be 
bothered tracking

I'll try a different way

bloodshed C++ ?