Giveaway of the Day is offering today a free download of MP3 Recorder Studio. This software may be extremely valuable to writers who conduct interviews using Skyppe. Here’s the program description from the Giveaway email newsletter:
Do you need to record an internet call? A conference or radio show? Want to capture every sound on your computer while skipping silence and saving disk space? MP3 Recorder Studio may be just what you are looking for. It records sound directly into MP3 without creating temporary WAV files, it is able to detect and skip silence, to split output files according to your settings. Due to these functions it can monitor sound activities automatically even for very long periods of time.
I cannot vouch for the program itself yet, as I haven’t tried it myself — but it answers a need of mine, and I will certainly give it a try.
This giveaway appears to have attracted a lot of attention. Within hours, the site has gotten over 50 comments, which are worth reading. As I write this, the download website has been”timing out,” a sign of user overload. Keep trying, if you are interested. I eventually got through and have downloaded the program. You can also read more about the program at the developer’s home page. If you do visit the Giveaway page, be sure to read the comments at the bottom. They point to installation problems and solutions, as well as to other similar programs. Here’s one such comment:
Ok so it’s free and worth a look – beyond that I’ll stick to audacity; and then there’s wavepad,audioblast, wavosaur or mp3 my mp3…..
I can, by the way, vouch for the alternative and free program Audacity, which you can download at Snapfiles. I didn’t relaize though that it would record Skyppe calls.
Perhaps other readers will have some thoughts and experience to share about recording Skyppe phone interviews.
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Comment by
Tom Colvin
12 Dec 2007
Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers this morning features a guest post by Shirley Hurley Hall, a Top Ten blogger at Get Paid To Writer Online passing on “Six Interviewing Tips.” One of her tips is to have the right equipment at hand. She prefers a digital recorder over pen and paper. She adds another major point which writers sometimes forget: be sure to have extra batteries at hand, and keep an eye on the recorder to be certain that it does not shut down without your knowledge. That happened to me once when I was not attentive, a near disaster when I sat down to write. You can view the post at:
http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/12/12/6-interviewing-tips/
Tom