Kilmatead

Pedantic love-in's at least birth erudite progeny. Caliban did curse to Prospero, his rebellion formed of servitude. O cynical me.

...not too sure what you're trying to achieve. The WavePad EQ would apply to something recorded or otherwise played by Wavepad itself, but would not automatically apply to "anything" coming out of your speakers just because the program is active, but not processing. Generally your sound-card (if you have one) would supply an onboard EQ. If you only want to "listen" to (not record) your radio, use a media programme (such as MediaMonkey) which will access internet radio as well as play your music collection, podcasts, etc. It would, again, have it's own onboard EQ - thus giving you a single interface rather than multiple ones depending on what programme you're running. Personally I would find the idea of depending on a Station's Own standalone player as... dodgy? Suspicious? Unnecessary? Just my opinion. Edit: Upon further investigation, you might try this basic EQ which should hook into generic onboard sound: http://members.aon.at/grxpage/ But I have no idea if it would work for you.

What the cynically inclined Musikone is intoning is to just always use "Save As" from the File menu. Avoid <Ctrl-S>. Obviously select a different name for the edited file.

Edit > Auto Trim ...will nip the start/end trailing silences, but not sure about "all throughout a file". Personally, it's best done "by hand" anyway, as unexpected things can happen with auto-length compressions - in other words, if you don't do it yourself, you might be surprised when five minutes vanishes from "somewhere" in the middle of a 3-hour track.

Open the first segment as usual in WavePad. Select Edit > Insert File (End) [find/select the next segment file] Repeat ad nauseam, saving the final (probably rather large) file when finished. Use "Save As" to change it's name or to covert it back to MP3, etc. Et voila, Chapter one.

He's always grumpy. Just the weariness of life dragging our ragged souls asunder. Umm... let me see... like actually buying it maybe? (Cough. Sound of crickets chirping. More coughing.)

I have reinstalled/re-registered the same product multiple times due to system rebuilding - and have never had any problem using the original license I bought. As long as you retain the original name/location/key you used the first time, it ought to work (remembering all the usual nonsense such as case-sensitivity and so on). If you have lost said info, I should hope NCH would resupply it, as it's not a "technical support" issue, but rather a simple matter of business acumen and "customer support".

I think the largest file I've ever recorded was 2+ hours... and it didn't even blink at editing that, so no problem. One might suppose you're limited by memory, but even then cache-ing files are de rigueur these days. I suppose one could test it by just setting your music collection to play (or internet radio) - and record that (rather meaninglessly) for 6 hours or so and see what happens. Generally recordings default to decent .wav quality so you're likely to end up with a bloody large file. I could do this for you, but as I have 4GB ram/overclocked quad core/x64-bit vista my results would probably not be too indicative of "normal experience".

Well spotted. Most likely the reason that is disabled initially on some Vista machines and not others is due to the fact that Vista seems to have great difficulty with some RealTek on-board "built-in" soundcard drivers. Could be worse. Could be Creative.

That update was for the Apple version only, I believe. The Windows one is still 3.05.

Most sound-card "compatibility" problems are with the more advanced issues like DTS, THX, optical x.1 and so on - most rudimentary tasks don't cause problems. If your sound-card works in Vista at all (plenty of irony here for Creative users) there really shouldn't be any conflict with one particular program - which leads me to think it's more of a driver issue. I know it sounds lame, but when in doubt try reinstalling them (proper Vista ones, not old XP variants)... or reinstalling Wavepad itself. If all else fails, try recording something through the less-user-friendly Audacity (if I'm allowed to mention the "competition") and see if that works. It's all a matter of troubleshooting. In the most blunt approach, uninstall the current sound drivers, reset the machine, and let Vista detect the hardware and search for the appropriate set by itself.

Not necessarily. To read a format and to encode within it are two different things. The easiest way to ensure you have all the most commonly used codecs (in all their permutations - for example, WMA itself is comprised of more than one 'type') is to use a codec pack... ...such as Vista Codec Pack.

Isn't cynicism one of those new seven deadly sins? No? Irony? No? Ah, I'll figure it out yet.

I'm a bit mystified by these sorts of posts as I'm using Vista x64 and have no difficulties whatsoever - normally x64 is unhappy with everything. Aside from the usual rather lame suggestions like "check your soundcard", try turning off all the Record Control Options (under 'Advanced Control Settings') - Auto-Start, Auto-Trim, and Voice-Activation. This, at the very least, makes it easier to check whether the record-clock is running when testing. I have noticed that the record button kind of "sticks" from time to time (rather like a real deck), so try clicking the 'Stop' button first, then 'Record'. I'm using an Asus Xonar D2 sound card (the one with all the christmas lights), so any suggestions about what 'Device' to set would be impractical, though you could try setting the Device to Stereo Mix and the 'Input' to Windows Record Mixer. This records whatever is playing on the speakers at the time so it's easier to test. And remember that you won't see a wave representation of the sound until you end the recording, so the clock-count is all you have to go by. And just for the hell of it: Check your soundcard. Drivers, cables, et cetera.

...not being a Mac-user I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this, but one assumes all menus are similar. When selecting "Save File As" from the "File" menu, either use the drop-down "File Type" menu or manually add the ".MP3" suffix to the filename. This will automatically invoke the codec necessary to process into mp3. It should give you all the usual choices about VBR or set bit-rates or what-have you. Just in case you don't know, there is a significant loss of data in the compression from .WAV to .MP3, so if you know you'll be editing the file again either leave it as .WAV or use the highest bit-rate settings.

Glad to be of service. Having just turned 40, I have my doubts about the "Young Person" moniker, but so it goes. Also, not sure if I actually "know" anything at all... Montaigne, Gibbon, Messiaen - now these men knew things. I just know what buttons to push. So it goes.

I would hope after 50 years, patience, if nothing else, would finally have become a virtue to cherish for it's own sake. But in the modern age I suppose we are all our own worst enemies. Anyway, to answer your question... Under the 'File' menu, select "Load Audio CD tracks"... When the one you want is in the editor, highlight the first 44 seconds - holding down the left mouse button, as per normal. Right-click the highlighted area and select "Delete" from the menu which appears. (Now here you say "Record"... not sure what you mean by that... if you wish, you can insert a previously recorded section into the file using the editing tools until you end up with what you want.) Save the file. It will offer default .WAV options of PCM 44kHz 16Bit Stereo, 172 kb/sec, etc. These are fine, so save it anywhere. Go back to the "File" menu at the top again, and select "Copy All Open Files to CD" - Select "Audio" from the sub-menu. This will tell you to save the file again because it likes repeating itself. Anyway, this will invoke Express Burn Plus (NCH's disc burning toy). If you don't already have it installed, it will do it automatically and run it. Select your saved file(s), hit "Burn CD" and Bob's your uncle. May God grant you many more. (At least until you tire of this mortal coil.)

Removing the music and keeping the voice? Most people wish to play the other side of the fence, but this is a libertarian century. Not sure if this helps... Clicky

The first one "x64" refers to 64-Bit based versions of Windows. The "x86" is for 32-Bit versions. Most people (especially if you don't know) will have the 32-Bit version, thus you would choose the x86 patch.

Just so you don't develop a complex by talking only to yourself, I'll chime in. I don't remember the specific menu directions (for XP), but (in Vista) if you click on the Start button, then select "Default Programs" you'll find an option to "Associate a file type or protocol with a program"... this will allow you to manually set file-types to programs (obviously), and by the same token, to UN-associate them. After uninstalling a program, run CCleaner, which will go a long way to keeping the registry and such clean. It's free and harmless. Then write a letter entitled Registry Complaints, care of Bill Gates, yada yada ya. (Curious that it should think a Paintshop file would have much to do with Wavepad, but then again Platypus's exist, so if nature can be wacky, what's a little Registry flummox?)

To quote the Help file... WavePad doesn't seem to have a Pause button per-se, what you activated (by hitting the admittedly confusing "Pause Symbol") was Scrub, which is meant to perpetuate audio output. Effectively, as you discovered, since the 'Stop' button doesn't reset to the beginning of the file, it is more accurately described as the Pause button. Common Linguistic Semantics and programmers never did mix well.

Um, interestingly enough there is a selection under Effects -> Special Effects called Reduce Vocals, but it has a rather serious limitation: As the Help file says (note the last sentence, bad grammar et al),

Try this: Select Bit Rate when saving

Sounds like you accepted the default settings when saving a .wav file - these, for some reason, can be 8-bit. For decent enough quality you should be setting it manually (when saving) as PCM, 44.100kHz 16-bit Stereo 172kb/sec Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to convert them "up" if indeed you did use the lower quality.

I've discovered the same difficulty when using MP3's from a semi-DRM source (bought legally, but "claimed" to have no DRM). You might find that these self-same files won't play on a separate player if transferred to USB. Regardless, if you load the file into Audacity then choose 'Export File as .MP3', then you'll be able to read/edit the new file with the friendlier WavePad. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but work-around's seldom do.