Re: TECH: software for recording your voice

Mia Soderquist wrote:
>
> I thought that I would throw my 2 cents in on this. I have
>  Realplayer G2, and haven't had any more problems with Netscape
>  than I had before anyway.
Do you have RealProducer G2?
>
> I like MP3's for sound quality, but I think they are somewhat
> larger than real audio files and real audio is so widely used
> that it seems a good choice for putting on the Web.
Hi, Mia.  I just downloaded RealProducer G2's freeware.  It seems
that you have to have RealPlayer G2 (I have RealPlayer Plus) in
order to hear what you've recorded.  If I download RealPlayer G2,
does that replace my Plus?  Seems weird, because I paid money for
the Plus, and the G2 is free.  Will it give me all the same
capabilities?

Questions and gripes:

1) only works with RealPlayer G2.  Not a difficult problem; just
more downloading.  But before I download, I want to know what
happens with the Plus.

2)  I have windows98, which puts a bar across the bottom.  There
seems to be no way to make the RealProducer Screen any smaller
(the enlarge/reduce icon at the upper right hand corner is faded
out, so you can either hide the screen or close it out--not make
it smaller).  As a consequence, the bar at the bottom completely
obscures the controls for "record" "play" "stop" which are way
down there.  No arrow keys.  CRIKE!!  Fortunately, there is a
controls bar next to Edit at the top of the screen, but this is
a major annoyance.

3)  RealProducer seems to want to save my file with the extension
.rm instead of .wav.  Is this a problem?  I think so.  Can I make
it a .wav extension manually?  Who can read .rm?  I think I'm
beginning to see what Boudewijn meant by "closed."  Mia, what is
your advice about all this?  Why is it .rm and not .ra?

4)  I could experiment, but not until I download RealPlayer G2.
Does RealPlayer G2 allow me to read .wav files, Mia?  I assume
so.

Thanks in advance, Sally