Topic: Windows XP freeware help needed (recording with WAV split on the fly)

[cleantone]

To solve a workflow problem with something at my work I need to pic your brains. I have been on Mac for a while now. We run Dell's at work that are not all that powerful. I need a cheap or free software that simply records WAV and allows you to split WAV files with a keystroke on the fly without stopping. This is for seminar purposes. Ideally I want to record at 22k 16bit mono as well by the way. Chapter marking on the fly would help too. Ideally I would like to be able to hit record for a presentation and with a key stroke chop wav files that go into a folder and get named in a way that makes sense in terms of order. I am not worried about sector boundry errors but if I need to split a file while the presenter is talking I don't want to miss half a sentence as it starts a new file. Audio Hijack can do this on a Mac but we need to use these crappy Dell's. Can CD Wave do this on the fly? It needs to be on the fly because these new tracks will be corresponding to new slides in the presentation. Does this make sense? Anyone have a good solution

[sygdwm]

i think cdwav will work. it's "alt + s" to split. or it will auto split or split at intervals, but that may not help you.

[cleantone]

Maybe someone can remind me about CD Wav. If I were using it record. Firstly, can I have it do 22khz 16bit files? More importantly when I am hitting alt-s is it making markers that later can be modified (or not) and then you sort of render the files to a location. It is not actually cropping WAV's as it goes right? That might be a really good way to do it in fact.

I am up for more input if anyone has other ideas.

edit:

I looked at the softwares page a bit. I don't think it can do below red book specs. Not the biggest issue. I also noticed it went to $15. When did that happen? Obviously cheap enough and deserving.

If anyone can think of any cheap/free software that can do this using lower sampling rates I am interested in hearing about it. Otherwise I guess I would have to batch process them down somehow.

[newplanet7]

The earlier versions are free.
Etree has them.
http://www.etree.org/cdwave.html

[flipp]

The earlier versions were not free. They were shareware and were not restricted in any way after the 30/31 day trial period. The 1.4x versions were $10, not sure when the price went up 50%. Even with the increase it's still a bargain.

Is there a newer version than 1.9.7.3? In at least that version you can save the files in anything from mono to 5.1 in bit depths of 8,16, or 24 at frequencies from 8k to 96k. Hit the record button and a record properties window pops up with those settings and a few others.

[cleantone]

Perfect! Thanks a lot guys.

[newplanet7]

The earlier versions were not free. They were shareware and were not restricted in any way after the 30/31 day trial period.

I still have mine from 2006 and haven't payed..... Oops!
Never registered it I guess.
Guess I don't get all those other nifty features that I'll never use.
I bet most of the people who use it never registered it.