Good software. So far, the best alternative is not found.

@165: You don't win this stuff. It's free software...everyday!

Any more of these contests coming out? I'd like to win software for the iPod touch!

Wow great stuff going on here.

FLV converter provide you with all popular FLV converter,encoder, decoder and player. http://www.flv-converter.com

There is quite a few M4P to MP3 converters outthere, for converting m4p to mp3 file(s) format . I personally recommend SoundTaxi or WMAConvert. the software specialized in convert DRM protected music files like m4p, wma, aac, m4a file.
http://www.m4p-converter.com/

Richie T.

Read and follow the directions in post 156. I have tried many of the freeware recorders and this one is, by far, better than any of those. If you have unistalled the original download, you may be out of luck, but this program is worth $30 if it does what you want.

SUCKS!!!! This was a great program, that was supposed to be a complete free program. NOW we find out that this was only TRIALWARE!!!! Sneaky.. I went back to find the publisher of the program and I will NEVER, EVER purchase or download from them again.. Does ANYONE know of a freeware or paid OTHER version of this program. I'll not purchase from these sneaks....

Now that we've been up and running again for about a week, I would like some advice. I record web audio to listen to in a car from a Rio MP3 player through an FM Transmitter. Not hifi, but acceptable for now. What codec, bit rate, sample rate, encoding mode and/or WMA setting would you suggest? I'm new to these terms, please forgive my ignorance.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, thanxs, it's fixed also for me.

Sorry for complaining about the editor, bugs just happen...

Good job, GIOTD!

Thanks "Beentaken" for the post. After following your link to the forum, I was able to get up and running again. Life on my rural mail route will again be free from the programming wasteland of commercial radio as I use this with an mp3 player an FM transmitter.

My original post two days ago was removed. Maybe they will let this one stand. It appears the Project Team here has no idea which way is up.

The software developer has not taken back their deal on you people. There is a bug in the updater of the original installer. Go here to the GAOTD forums. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/761
Abyssmedia has provided a link to a download file that will update your program and register it again.

I have no idea why this Project Team or someone from GAOTD will not post this information for you. I understand these are free offerings (sort of) but this is still no way to treat your user base. You do profit and we are your customers. If people stop using the site there would be no site.

Though it's possible to keep on using it by changing the system date...

Good! ;-)

(greetings from France, guys!)

Yes it unregistered itself, and ther's no way to register it again, with the code from Givaway... That's filthy and tricky.
Very bad.
Giveaway you should check these softwares more carefully.
Editors are tricky...

Thanxs

Read closely Terms and Conditions (look through the readme file that goes with the everyday's giveaway package)


Terms and conditions

Please note that the software you download and install during
the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support
2) No free upgrades to future versions
3) Strictly non-commercial usage

I love this program, but mine went down April 1. I've tried using Messer and MP3 my MP3, but I may need to spring for $30 to buy. Good luck to all.

The program must have a timer because today april 3 2007, the program unregistered itself...and is giving me grief

The problem is that you can sell anything that a price can be put on.
Developers would say that it perfectly normal to trash a product since
all apes are coprophilic. If this, that and 1000 other required
features are missing, so what?
The more customers that have a siezure while trying to use a product,
the better.

From the customers standpoint, death by slow torture should be the
penalty for producing garbage software/hardware.

From #122 BillW50: "Sure WMA can be played by iPods! Use iTunes to convert and no problem. Apple isn’t stupid!"

Sure, but if I owned an iPod I surely wouldn't bother downloading AND converting your podcast. Would rather listen to a podcast put out by someone with enough forethought to use a universal format that didn't need conversion first. And iToons? Gack, no thanks!

i-sound stop recording the second time I used it. Nothing could be done to revive the program so I uninstalled. I've gone back to WavePad and Audacity.

146, see number 92 for instructions on how to install right...
Like you I cant seem to record anything....

I downloaded and installed the software but it simply doesnt record at all and there is also a 100 second limitation. How do you record from the internet and from Windows media player?

#74 JAMES WROTE:
I’ve run it a few times now, and yes recording is fine. Am I missing something or are there NO editing facilities? You have to switch on the turntable, then try and click the mouse just before the music starts. You have to babysit it and click the mouse as soon as the music ends. For a free program it’s great, but it seems a bit primitive for $30!
Comment by James — January 25, 2007 @ 12:27 pm

You can try GOLDWAVE for a modicum of SOUND EDITING. (shareware)

#62 ND WROTE:, try http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php (doesn’t convert the format though, so you get a flash file and need a flash reader, for example vlc.)
Comment by ND — January 25, 2007 @ 8:57 am

Tip from TheAdvancedSpecialist:
ANSWER: Use "TOTAL VIDEO CONVERTER". You can convert the .flv to .mpeg or whatever you want. (shareware)

Use FLV Player if you wish to play FLV flash video files. (free)

TK WROTE: A filter I would like for high quality recording of LP and singles is one that combines the left and right channels together at frequencies below 20Hz so it would cancel out the subsonic 1 to 10Hz anti-phase warp signal present in most pressings when played back over a decent DC coupled cartridge/pre-amp combinations.
Comment by TK — January 25, 2007 @ 10:43 pm

ALSO, I think the filters only have a *slider*, they do not allow you to TYPE IN a SPECIFIC frequency, like 20,533. If the slider doesn't move to the number you want, it will skip to the next detent and I'm not sure how you can ever get to the one you want.

The authors should write the ability to TYPE IN a frequency value in the filters section.

#135 JULIAN WROTE Cannot unzip. Tried three different zip programs and all give an error. I have downloaded the i-Sound program three times thinking something went wrong with download. No joy.
Julian
Comment by Julian — January 26, 2007 @ 12:22 am


JULIAN. EMPTY your cache. When you download, it puts it into your temp internet files. And sometimes if you re-download, it simply sees that there's one in your cache already and fetches that one, which is corrupted, instead of a fresh one from the site.

Check the size of the file in bytes and make sure yours is not corrupted. Totally empty your internet cache and re-download. Open with winrar or any zip program.

EJA WROTE: To: BillW50, "I was a bit surprised because the recordered conversion is an 128Kbit mp3-file."
So, I know what to do… I have to convert most of my mp3 into wma…
thnx & greetz from the netherlands
Comment by eja — January 25, 2007 @ 6:29 pm

Hoi Eja, hoe gaat het vrend
BILLW50 is sort of the resident "troll" on here, he posts all kinds of pseudo-information, FUD, and partial-truths. So just take what BillW50 posts with a grain of salt & ignore. Most of us have ignored him already.

Anyway, yes, eja, WMA, which stands for Windows Media Audio, will be slightly smaller than MP3, but WMA is a proprietary format that will contain DRM restrictions. In other words, WMA contains facilities for copy protection against you playing some songs and various content. WMA is created by microsoft.

Another thing is that the size of your file depends on the compression algorithm but also the bitrate (64kbit, 128kbit, 192kbit, 320kbit, for example). And also the number of channels (mono or stereo) and the sampling frequency (telephone quality is ~22k, CD's are 44.1K, and DAT is 48K).

For instance, if you record a lecture in mono, at 22k sampling rate, at 32kbitrate it will be small, and you could record 8 hours of a lecture and not even take up the capacity of your mp3 player. But if you recorded high-quality audio, 2-channel stereo, 44.1K cd quality at 320kbit, then the files will be large, and fill up your player quite fast.

An 'average' mp3 will take up about 1 meg a minute. That's at 128kbitrate, 44.1k sampling rate, in stereo.

Microsoft claims that you can obtain the same sound quality with WMA at a lower bitrate than mp3. In other words, a WMA file at 64kbit is supposed to sound as good as a 128kbit mp3. This is their *claim*. I will leave it up to you to decide if you think that is true or not. Up to you.

But since hard drives are so spacious nowadays in capacity, with hundreds and hundreds of gigs of space, including mp3 players with huge amounts of space now, I would rather use mp3 than WMA due to the involvement of DRM copy protection in WMA files. DRM encryption in WMA. Windows Media Player encodes DRM-encrypted files which can be *only* played on the computer which encoded them. You can't give them to your friends; you might be unable to play them after reinstalling Windows on the same computer. http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/12/24/at_the_mercy_of_the.htm

In addition to that, with WMA it is possible to run into compatibility problems with WMA because some mp3 players will NOT play WMA files. The players will all usually play MP3's.

In addition, WMA files can contain script content. This leaves it vulnerable. Here, I will explain this to you. The idea was that while playing a WMA file, it would use Windows Media Player to LINK to say, the band's website, and show a picture of the band, or the album cover, or an html page with information on the WMA file's content. Sounds good so far, right? Well, that sounded great to hackers too, because they embedded links to sites that auto-downloaded malware, spyware, trojan horse programs, and viruses when you played the file. So there was a big report on the security exploit hole found in WMA files there for a while. READ ABOUT THE SECURITY FLAW IN WMA FILES HERE: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,119016-page,1/article.html

Essentially a poisoned WMA file could open up your web browser and force your computer to a malicious site and infect you, meanwhile displaying a little happy picture so you don't know that it happened. It can also use the mini-browser in winamp or wmp, doesn't need to use ie.

Here is MICROSOFT'S OWN Security Warning Bulletin on the WMA flaw:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS02-072.mspx

Note that another trick that is possible is to rename the .wma file to .mp3. It's not an mp3, but it will still open up the player, the player will then open up the .wma and run the infected code.

If you are creating the files yourself, then you'll be ok, except for compatibility, but just realize that there are many considerations, not just 'oh it smaller, use it.'

I was very pleased to finally find a recording program that could also make MP3's. Afterwards I was very depressed, because it doesn't do what it promised. Indeed I can record sound, but even at the maximum record level I need to turn op the playback level to max to hear even anything! I don't understand, but I see that more users (109) have the same problem.

Impressive! I use Recall Audio, www.sagebrush.com that has similar features, but I'm going to give this a go around. I use VOX for recording guitar clips, that way I can pause and resume my recording when ready. I don't think Recall has quite the flexibility this program seems to- less formats for recording comes to mind- but time will tell. Thanks!

Good app and worth the $29. Whats great are the bitrates one can use for MP3, 32 all the way to 320 in 14 steps.

This alone is fantastic because you are not stuck with one bit rate say 128 like some other similarly priced programs.

Say if you wanted to record your favorite talk radio program 32 or 40 would be fine and save file space. Then you can use the 320 setting for more demanding music apps.

The volume controls do need some tweaking and getting some use to, do some trial runs. But after that, its fairly easy to get it right.

I haven't tried the other features, but the MP3 modes are the ones I mainly use.


The install on my computers was easy, just first run the activation program first and then the setup as others have said. GOTD, thanks ...this is a winner!

Hey #135 (Julian) Try to use winrar.. it worked perfectly for me!

Strange.

I dloded and worked fine and good registration and all. I reciorded out of my skype mick and the playback was on the 4.1 speakers. So I got excited and hooled the guitar instead of the mike without changing a thing. The program then crashes with access violations and is unable to find drivers for the sound card. Then complains about direct sound.

I try to quit and it wont let me, access violations from isound. I admit that changing input maybe was the wrong thing to do, but microsoft recorder handles it just fine. Also a program should be able to quit on its own when I can still play my recordings and pull down all menus (minus quit) without problem, not by killing it on the taskbar
Other than that, everything I tried has been fine. Good quality sound on the voice recorders and profesional look. Great program GOTD!

Cannot unzip. Tried three different zip programs and all give an error. I have downloaded the i-Sound program three times thinking something went wrong with download. No joy.

Julian

What time zone are you in? This is time sensitive material so it would be good to know.

An awesome program. Does what I want it to, unlike the one which I just spent 19 bucks for. Installed seamlessly! Records just GREAT!!!

Hi,
I like to download a free Wordperfect file please.

Thank you

What a crap Tutorial ! Nothing Effective ! SAME & SAME Steps for all scenario ... I REGRET the wastage of time.


Case 3: Recording streaming audio from Internet
1. Open i-Sound MP3 Recorder.
2. Open "Settings->Mixer" window to select the recording properties in the dialog box. Select the "Stereo Mix" device or the equivalent, adjust the recording volume for the highest possible performance.
3. Now start the playback the streaming audio from Internet and click the "Record" button in i-Sound MP3 Recorder. Adjust the volume setting by observing a wave pattern display of the audio as it is playing.
4. When you want to stop recording, just click "Stop" button, and the destination sound file is there.

Not very good quality !! Is there any guidelines, tips, trick to make it appropriate? Out-of-the-box is not really good ...
GuveAwayOfTheDay Team, if you are reading - will appreciate if you make note of this and take appropriate actions.

Thanks much. I heared about audacity but never used. This is the first time I am gonna use such program.

To #120

I have a MAYA EX5 Audiotrak usb sound card. Other recorders such as audacity, AR Wizard, blaze audio do work. I like this program for ease on use. I've tried rebooting, opening iSound after changing audio record inputs. Will discuss at your technical support if no success.

I tried recording from line-in as I do with Audacity when I'm recording off my stereo radio, maybe 3 or 4 minutes with this test. Sample rate was 44,100, and bit rate was 128. Playback was amazingly poor, with distorted sound, even with the VU meters never pegging during recording.

I was hoping to do recording with less space required than Audacity uses for a project, then final edit it with Audacity, but if sound quality is this bad, I can't use it.

Ken

Yeah 116, like you I can play back other files as well, but nothing seems to record, forgot to mention that....

Brdzo dobre programy i gry, ciesze sie ze kiedys przypadkiem znalazlam ta strone i zadecydowalam ze warto ja miec na stale.Pozdrawiam Slawe ktory najczesciej sie odzywa i wszystkich innych z GAOD, doceniajac ich cierpliwosc i wysilek i widzac jak wielki jest ich codzienny wklad w ta strone, oraz innych uzytkownikow tej strony, nie tylko polskojezycznych! Widzac inne jezyki tu uzywane, chcialam tez napisac cos najpierw po polsku:-)

#105 - Site Seer

Sure WMA can be played by iPods! Use iTunes to convert and no problem. Apple isn't stupid! And sure lots of other programs that can convert WMA to virtually anything. No real time required at all.

And I don't care what CNet or anybody else uses. It just shows how little they know about technology. Which is funny when you think about it. lol

To #114

Audacity is a sound editor, i-Sound is a sound recorder. Feel the difference? Audacity is better because it free, right?

To #116 Jack Moerman

What sound card you have? Looks like a problem with mixer enumerations of feature-limited sound card's driver.

#106

Greetings from USA eja!

Naw, leave your old MP3s alone. Converting them will only cause the quality to go down anyway. Just use WMA for now on okay?

Your friend from the states.

This is by far the best download yet! Once again, thanks GOTD!

i really like this software . once you get the hang of it . it's easy. i don't the fact you can't go back and change the save setting. otherwise it's works great. just a reminder for all of you cry babies. this website gives you free software. so why many complaints when they post something you don't like ?.

Great program, easy to learn to use, enough flexibility for simple recording. But I am with #109 - Tried everything on mixer even same settings that work for other recorders but nothing seems to record. Can play back other files but silence on iSound. Any suggestions?