Trish wrote:
"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
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incidentally, how did you record the playing stream into Cool Edit? Did
you take a lead from the sound card output and back into the
line input of your PC or did you use some feature of CE that I
didn't know about similar to Total Recorder? From memory CEP
ACTUALLY records in PCM and saves to MP3 (or whatever you chose)
when you exit. When Cool Edit Pro/Audition works with MP3s, they first
decode them
into PCM files in the temp folder then when you've finished working,
they re-encode them to MP3.


Hello. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

To record, I just let the radio programme play in Real Player and
opened a new file in CoolEdit and pressed record. When it came to the
end of the show, I stopped it and pressed 'save as', choosing mp3 and
it saved.
This is probably not what you are supposed to do, but I have done it
before and since to record a radio show and it worked, but for some
reason, the files I promised to someone else have been messed up. It
works perfectly for unimportant stuff.

The radio show was almost two hours long, so I'm afraid it's a very
large file (over 1GB). I recorded the show for three days running,
but only checked the files when I came to transfer it to CD for her.
I presumed that there would be no problem, as there never has been
before.
What is driving me mad is I KNOW the digital information to recreate
the sounds I heard are in my huge big files, but I can't get it out.

I have not changed the original files I saved to in any way, as any
of my attempts to do something have been done by working on a copy of
the original files.

--
Trish

Dublin

Hmm,

I'm surprised that CoolEdit allowed you to make successful recordings in the
past - perhaps it uses the Windows sound manager to route audio to it's
inputs and you had/have the record part of your soundcard set to look at the
stereo mix - that'd work.

This might not help but could you higlight the first 20 seconds of your
file, copy it, create a new file, past the data in and save as Raw PCM -
then you might have something email-able.

Problem is, finding a way to play that 30 seconds might not solve your 2
hours problem but it'd be a start.

Rolo