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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Recording sounds in Windows Vista

With Windows XP, I was able to record programmes streamed online with Total Recorder. I have not found a way of doing this with my new Sony laptop running Vista. I did try installing Total Recorder, only to find the laptop froze. Hendrik Woolf

Hi-Q Recorder will record audio streams to MP3 files in Vista and other versions of Windows, and it is freeware. However, it only works at bit rates up top 96kbps. The company also sells Easy Hi-Q Recorder 2.2 for $29.95. This offers higher-quality MP3 files and can also record to WAV, WMA, and Ogg. Audio Tools Factory also offers a Vista MP3 Recorder for $19.95 and no doubt there are more.

Backchat: Richard Abrahams has offered "a 'low tech' solution: use a cable with a 3.5 mm jack at each end to feed the speaker output to the line-in socket and set TR to use this as the input device". Mike Smart says: "Issues concerning Total Recorder's incompatibility with Vista have been resolved in version 6.1." See totalrecorder.com/TR_and_Vista.htm. Nick Eden and others point out that you can often record streaming audio with Audacity, a free open source program (audacity.sourceforge.net/).

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