All I want to do is be able to schedule and record audio at a certain time. Is there any software that offers this? WAV or MP3 should work. I have Sound Forge 6.0, but I don’t think I can have Windows schedule this task to record.
windows has a built in event scedualer… it should be possible to use that.
Total Recorder can be set to do scheduled recordings.
Sound Forge 7 has built in scheduling, too.
If you want a free solution, find a freeware editor/capture utility with a command line interface, make a batch file to start it and record for however long you like, and point Windows task scheduler at the batch file.
One such program is HarddiskOGG, which will record OGG format files. You can get it to record uncompressed WAV files, or (by downloading an extra .dll) .mp3
Err… on the off chance you’re unfamiliar with batch files, I guess I should be a bit more specific. (Apologies if this is obvious to you.)
To set up to record .mp3s:
Download and install HDOgg.
Download lame_enc.dll and put it in the same folder you put HDOgg in.
Run hardisk.exe, and configure the capture settings the way you want them.
Now make the batch files. Right click in your HDOgg directory and select “New --> Text document” Call it “start.txt”
Make the body of the text file “harddisk -record -sequential” (without quotes.)
Save it, and then rename the file “start.bat” (If you don’t see file extensions, pick Tools --> Folder Options from the menu at the top of the folder, click the “View” tab, and uncheck “Hide file extensions for known file types.”)
Make another text file that says “harddisk -quit” and call it “quit.bat”
Now you can use the Task Scheduler to stop and start recordings by pointing it at the batch files.
Of course, you can go other ways, too… For example, you can make a batch file that contains the line “harddisk -record -sequential -timelimit 3600” which will record for one hour and then stop.
Cool, thanks for all the info everyone. I may just go with buying another copy of Sound Forge, just because I like the product, and could really use the scheduled recording feature. And thanks for the batch file info Larry Mudd.
No doubt about it-- Sound Forge is great software.
Happy to serve. Of course, I realized after I posted that you don’t really need to make the batch files – you could just schedule the .exe to start and add the command line switches in the advanced properties.