Using Your Computer to Record Auto Suggestion Programs
It should be the easiest thing in the World to record an Audio File with a Microphone using your personal computer. Every computer has one or several microphone jacks, and so there should be some program or another that would allow you to create the appropriate audio file. I just couldn’t find the appropriate Program… oh, it was there, but Bill Gates hid it so well that it took me an awful long time to find it.
At first I looked in the obvious place – Windows Media Player. It was not there, and Media Player Help would give absolutely no guidance on where to go to find out how one could make an analog recording using a microphone input.
At one time I had loaded Real Player from Real Networks, and their Player DID have a microphone input option which was pretty handy, but I had to buy it, and then I found out that they were charging me every darn month for it. I had to finally cancel my Credit Card to shake them off my ass. And then they stripped me of my microphone option, as though I had not already paid them enough for it. What ripoffs!
So I went back to looking for a Microsoft Product. But those Microsoft Merchandising People are idiots. They know how to force products down the throats of unwilling buyers, but if you are actually looking for something, they don’t know how to deal with it. Whatever it is you want, that is exactly what you can’t find in that tangled jumbled mess which is Microsoft Company.
So I resorted to blind Search Engine searches using “recording audio files with microphone” as my key words. Well, I found two things. “Powerpoint”, for slide presentations has the capacity for recording narration. If you have “Office” then you also have Powerpoint. You go to the “Slide Show” dropdown and select “record narration”. You can go to the “set up show” selection from that same dropdown to ‘loop’ the recording so that it plays all night if you like.
But the Powerpoint application had a serious drawback. When in record mode it would blank out your computer screen and forbid you to pull up any other application. Now, if you want to write up a script on your computer and then read it into the microphone, you need to be able to split up your screen, or put the recorder down underneath the Tool Bar without turning it off. Powerpoint would not allow one to do this. You would have to print out a page if you wanted something to read, and then you couldn’t easily edit it… and who works with paper anymore? Also, to play it you need to use Powerpoint, and again it completely blanks out the Computer Screen. Well, with Auto Suggestion Programs, sometimes you want them playing in the Background all the time, working subliminally, even when you are doing other things on your computer, such as visiting Dream Views. So the Powerpoint application has a couple of strikes against it. But it does come with a pretty good Microphone Tester routine.
Then my searches pointed to something I never guessed existed, but does: “Sound Recorder”, right there in Accessories – go from Accessories through the Entertainment Menu and there it is – “Sound Recorder”. It is extremely simple, but it works great. Now it says it only will record for 60 seconds, but you will find that if you run it all the way to the end of that first 60 seconds, and then hit Record again, it adds another 60 seconds, and on and on ad infinitum. And it turns out that it becomes very easy to edit what you are working on. In this case ‘simple’ means user friendly. It records in a WAV file which you can play with your Media Player, and loop all night long if you like.
