Not able to record more than 60 seconds with Windows Sound Recorder
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Carlosdl
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Not able to record more than 60 seconds with Windows Sound Recorder
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Sound Recorder, Dell OptiPlex 960, Enterprise Desktop
My work pc is a Dell Optiplex 960, with a Core 2 Quad CPU and 4 GB of RAM, running windows XP SP3.

A few days ago I needed to record some sounds with the Microsoft Sound Recorder, but for some reason I am not able te record more than 60 seconds (which is the default recording length).

After the first 60 seconds the recording stops which is normal, but if I press the record button again I get the following message:

"Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again".

I have reinstalled SP3, but it didn't help.

I have read that this is a design fault with Sound Recorder and cannot be solved other than by reducing the amount of physical memory, but I'm not sure about that.

Have you seen this problem ?

Thanks,

Carlos DL
ASKED: Mar 3 2009  11:46 PM GMT
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This is a limitation of Windows Sound Recorder.

Hey man, here is the simple answer. All you do is record 60 secs with no audio---save it--then use that BLANK 60 second recording and keep inserting it until you have the length you need. I did that and saved it as EXTENDEDBLANK. Then when you want to record something, just open it, use it to record but don't forget to save it with a NEW name or you'll lose your ready made longer blank recording.
Last Answered: Oct 5 2009  4:10 AM GMT by MrDurdenUSA   15 pts.
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Carlosdl   29760 pts.  |   Mar 4 2009  1:28PM GMT

I have done this many times in other similar machines (with less RAM), so the problem seems to be the 4 GB.

 

Carlosdl   29760 pts.  |   Oct 5 2009  2:14PM GMT

I’m sure I tried the above workaround, and it did not work.

However, it seems that Microsoft included a fix for this problem in one of the updates/patches/hot fixes, because I tried the same operation today (on the same machine, with the same OS), and it works now as excpected.

 

Carlosdl   29760 pts.  |   Oct 5 2009  2:33PM GMT

I think I claimed victory too soon.

It allowed me to save 180 seconds, and then the problem occurred again, and also confirmed that the above workaround doesn’t work. If I try to insert files which exceed the 180 seconds limit, the same error is raised.

Thanks anyway.

 

Britinga   345 pts.  |   Oct 6 2009  1:41PM GMT

Why not simply download Audacity? It’s a much better product, and free.

 

Koohiisan   995 pts.  |   Oct 6 2009  2:41PM GMT

I’ve never had success with Sound Recorder! I gave up on it years ago, since it seemed to impose an arbitrary limit which sometimes wasn’t even 60 seconds for me. Weird.

I second the vote for Audacity, although I really loved Creative WaveStudio too. I used it in Windows 3.1~XP and it worked fine until I went to Linux and needed something else…

Audacity should definitely do everything you need and more.

 
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