Recording streaming audio in Windows 7

[KA9JLM]

I don't know what those are, don't use them. I mean download music to play on puter. Midi sounds fine to me.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

Doing that is fine, but rarely will you hear a human voice in them.

I wrote a WAV to MIDI file convertor Years ago before mp3 was the norm for ringtones. It worked but it was a joke.

The best you can do is a computer sounding voice using MIDI, But music can sound very good. The human and musical instruments put off very complex waveforms that MIDI will normally not duplicate. You need a Large MIDI sound library to get decent quality.

You can always set compression to MAX in a MP3 file and they can get very small in file size, but you give up Quality. Just set the bit rate to your Hearing range and you are good to go.

If a person can only hear out in one ear then Compressing the MP3 or Wav to MONO would net a much smaller file.

MP3 is decent quality but wav is still the best quality, but will take 10X more memory in most cases.

MIDI is fine for what it was designed for. I have Real MIDI ports on some of my computers, now you rarely see them.
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[K8ERV]

Tnx for the good info. I know MIDI is at the mercy of the reconstructing instrument or simulation so may not be same as the composer intended. I am just not too fussy. I didn't think of or know about a voice problem.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KA9JLM]

Tnx for the good info. I know MIDI is at the mercy of the reconstructing instrument or simulation so may not be same as the composer intended. I am just not too fussy. I didn't think of or know about a voice problem.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

Most MIDIs play Musicals just fine.

Do you have some files with someone singing in them ?

I guess Rap could be on a midi, because you can't understand the words anyway, and it is the same thing Over and over and over.

[G4LNA]

I use Streamripper in Linux using the command line and it works really well, I notice they offer one for Winamp

http://streamripper-for-winamp.en.softonic.com/

[K8ERV]

Do you have some files with someone singing in them ?

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I don't find any, never thot about that cause not many of my MP3 or WAV have vocals either.

I do have a GREAT Kenny Rogers Gambler MP3, one of the highest-fi I have heard.

I don't listen to music much, but would like to record (I do on tape) the background music on some of the PPS a friend sends to me.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo