I like MS but hate it when they screw around with a good program. Sound
Recorder in Pre-Vista Windows was a simple but useful program. Sound
Recorder in Vista is a severly crippled version that only records in one
format without being able to select other compression formats. WHY!

I copied Sound Recorder from XP (renamed it Sound Recorder XP) and copied it
to my Vista machine. It works but only has the "stock" compression options.
I installed l3codeca.acm (Mpeg Layer3) and placed it in my System32 folder
but it still doesn't show up as an option in Sound Recorder XP.

How can I get the Mpeg Layer3 option to show up as an option in Sound
Recorder XP on Vista? Can I even do this? I remeber seeing something about
MS changing something in Vista so it won't recognize MP3 code programs.

Thanks for the help. Mike

Mike950 wrote:[color=blue]
> I like MS but hate it when they screw around with a good program.
> Sound Recorder in Pre-Vista Windows was a simple but useful program.
> Sound Recorder in Vista is a severly crippled version that only
> records in one format without being able to select other compression
> formats. WHY!
>
> I copied Sound Recorder from XP (renamed it Sound Recorder XP) and
> copied it to my Vista machine. It works but only has the "stock"
> compression options. I installed l3codeca.acm (Mpeg Layer3) and
> placed it in my System32 folder but it still doesn't show up as an
> option in Sound Recorder XP.
>
> How can I get the Mpeg Layer3 option to show up as an option in Sound
> Recorder XP on Vista? Can I even do this? I remeber seeing
> something about MS changing something in Vista so it won't recognize
> MP3 code programs.
>
> Thanks for the help. Mike[/color]
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Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:

Audacity
[url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url]

Audacity Tutorials
[url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html[/url]

Exporting MP3/OGG Files
[url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/exportmp3.html[/url]

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thanks for the reply Inzer. That's exactly what I did. I downloaded
Audacity and am using it instead of MS Sound Recorder but I really liked the
"old" MS Sound Recorder and hoped there was some way of getting it to work in
Vista (with Mpeg layer3). Audacity is good but I REALLY liked the old MS
Sound Recorder. It was a great little program with a lot of sound
compression options. It's sad that MS had to strip it down to almost a
useless program.





"John Inzer" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Mike950 wrote:[color=green]
> > I like MS but hate it when they screw around with a good program.
> > Sound Recorder in Pre-Vista Windows was a simple but useful program.
> > Sound Recorder in Vista is a severly crippled version that only
> > records in one format without being able to select other compression
> > formats. WHY!
> >
> > I copied Sound Recorder from XP (renamed it Sound Recorder XP) and
> > copied it to my Vista machine. It works but only has the "stock"
> > compression options. I installed l3codeca.acm (Mpeg Layer3) and
> > placed it in my System32 folder but it still doesn't show up as an
> > option in Sound Recorder XP.
> >
> > How can I get the Mpeg Layer3 option to show up as an option in Sound
> > Recorder XP on Vista? Can I even do this? I remeber seeing
> > something about MS changing something in Vista so it won't recognize
> > MP3 code programs.
> >
> > Thanks for the help. Mike[/color]
> ========================================
> Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:
>
> Audacity
> [url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url]
>
> Audacity Tutorials
> [url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html[/url]
>
> Exporting MP3/OGG Files
> [url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/exportmp3.html[/url]
>
> --
>
> J. Inzer MS-MVP
> Digital Media Experience
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>[/color]

Just another proof Vista was ironically NOT an upgrade but a piece of
garbage when compared to good old WinXP
I started hating even the word itself "Vista".

Hasta La Vista, and never come back dear Vista.