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When I first started using the Windows 3.1 Sound Recorder
accessory and my Sound Blaster sound board to create digital
recordings, I was disappointed to find out that Sound
Recorder had a 1-minute time limit. Luckily, I discovered a
trick that makes it possible to record longer material -- if
you have enough memory.
Here's how: Launch Sound Recorder, then record 1 minute of
silence and save the recording under the name BLANK.WAV (or
anything that's easy to remember). Once this is done, use
Edit·Insert file, select BLANK.WAV, and click OK. This will
insert another copy of the minute of silence, effectively
doubling the amount of time available for new recordings. If
you have enough memory left, you can repeat the last two
steps and insert still more time. (The size of Sound
Recorder's digital recordings depends only on their length,
not what you recorded; a 60-second recording is invariably
661,544 bytes.) Once you've inserted the desired amount of
time, you can press the Rewind button and begin recording.
In my system, which has 4MB of RAM, I can increase the
recording time to 3 minutes, enough to record a short song,
if Sound Recorder is the only Windows program I'm running.
You can even use Control Panel to change the Windows Start
and Windows Exit sounds to your favorite songs.
Steven Singer
Nelliston, New York
Editor's Note: This technique is a wonderful way to get
around the initial time limit of Windows' Sound Recorder
application. However, if Windows is slow enough to annoy
you, adding music and sound effects could make it worse.
Title: More Music for Your Money
Category: MSC
Issue Date: December, 1992
Editor: Brett Glass
Supplementary Files: None
Filename: P5MSC012.TIP