Free user-friendly MP3 audio recorder

[Jock Wilson]

This app will save you a lot of keying-in.

I am using Windows 7.

iFreeSkypeRecorder(Version8.0.15)

No need to download Skype. This MP3 audio recorder will record your microphone input as well as audio from your computer sound card.
The settings immediately below will allow you to record both sides.

                        Call Recording

                            1 -  Manually record calls
                            2 – Record both sides
                            3 – Audio devices

The settings immediately below will allow you at least 18 minutes of recording from any SDR, your single audio file comprising just 12 megabytes, which is light enough to be e-mailed successfully to a free radio station whenever attached to a single e-mail.
 
                   MP3 Quality

                       1 - Mono
                       2 - Recording BitRate 32
                       3 - Recording SampleRate 16,000

[kris]

A good tool for us - light, simple, fast!
I'm throwing away Apower who was stuttering.
Thank you!!!

[fox558]

Good recording program.

But why send stations reports made on SDR's? The operators already know they can be heard on them and can tune in themselves. They are more interested in reports from normal radios in peoples homes.

[dxace1]

SDRs are a REALITY these days -- most operators have come to understand this, use them, and appreciate reports even though they know the reception is not from long distances....but in some cases, for example a transmission in Netherlands heard in Norway or Finland or farther, it does constitute an accomplishment.  Just knowing where to look and how to use SDRs, with their various options, is an art.

[dxace1]

Looks like a good app, but since KIWI sites have recording capability, why would we need to use it?
Just record and download...

[Jock Wilson]

Looks like a good app, but since KIWI sites have recording capability, why would we need to use it?
Just record and download...

The app allows you to send a longer sample of a station's audio attached to a single e-mail than would be possible if you sent a sample using the recording capabilities of a KIWI site. The longest sample I have sent to date attached to a single e-mail using the app was just over 24 minutes. That particular free radio station was readable, but only just. So the kilobytes/second were low enough to accommodate such a long sample being able to be attached to a single e-mail.

Another use of the app is to send a kind of voicemail to a station. This saves you having to key in at length.

Yet another use of the app is to send a high quality piece of music (such as an album track) to a station to ask it to be dedicated to someone in a future broadcast.

I have an excellent free music player app on my computer. I can copy individual songs from it using the settings below -   

                  MP3 Quality

                       1 - Mono or Stereo or Joint Stereo. Recordings in mono have the highest sound level (volume).
                       2 - Recording BitRate 256
                       3 - Recording SampleRate 48,000

FAO fox558 -

As I'm in China, I would have great difficulty listening to free radio stations direct by means of a short wave receiver. I think most ops welcome listeners, be they listening on SDRs or on short wave radios.

[dandan22]

Also, as I am travelling with and IPAD and using it to do the connection with the SDRs, the IOS software doesn’t like to save the recordings from the built-in recorder, which works fine for me when I’m home using the SDRs online and recording with the built-in recording software.  I need something else, and this seems like it meets the requirement!  Thanks for doing it!

[Jock Wilson]

The first time I used a computer was way back in 2005. It was a desktop computer and the operating system was a Chinese version of Windows 98.

My first attempts at keying in were made using only the forefinger of my right hand  - I still key in in this fashion. I used to key in without inserting a space after a comma or a full stop.

Subsequently I had learned how to use Microsoft Word, but that was the limit of my computer skills. (That app turned out to be very useful as a teaching aid during my spoken English classes.)

The free MP3 audio recorder is the first stage of Skype’s video recorder app designed for Skype calls. I had no idea the audio recorder would function without Skype when I installed this Skype app.

I am glad to have been able to contribute something practical to this forum that some readers have also found to be well worth employing.

[OZDXer]

I just use Audacity.

[Jock Wilson]

https://www.audacityteam.org

Quote - Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.

Impressive, but I had previously downloaded it and couldn't get it to record anything.

Definitely not easy-to-use for me.