Comments on: Not able to record more than 60 seconds with Windows Sound Recorder

By: cavators

cavators — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:07:04 +0000

go to the sound recorder and record 60secs of blank.
save it
click insert file and then insert the saved file .
the lenghth will increase to 120secs.
do this as many times as you can and save the file.
close sound recorder and reboot your pc.
now open sound recorder and then first insert the saved file in it
now speak in the device and enjoy the lenghth of speaking

By: cavators

cavators — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:02:59 +0000

in widows movie maker select the timeline view.
connect the microphone and click the microphone button on the timeline bar.
after that you will see a small box with a start narration button on the side of the file toolbar.
click the start narration button and speak into your device as much long as you want.
when finished click the stop narration button.
you will be propmpted to a save narration button
save the file.
locate it and open with windows media player.
you can also in sert pictures in the movie maker at the same time of recording to make a flash file with video summary

By: koohiisan

koohiisan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:41:42 +0000

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.

By: britinga

britinga — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:41:36 +0000

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

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:33:36 +0000

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.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:14:51 +0000

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.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:28:09 +0000

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