World: r3wp

has anyone heard from Ashley?

 Back in Melbourne after 3 weeks in NSW. Just doing my yearly Windows 
 reinstall and using http://www.litepc.com/xplite.htmlto really trim 
 things back this time! ;)

interesting tool ...

mmm... is the trial time-limited ?

rebol needs this sort of press in 2005 - http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:zd71TB8RgKgJ:www.bbs.ingedigit.com/TechInfo/rebol/inthenews.html 
- of late it seems to have disappeared off the radar in most tech 
circles.

Ahh thanks Ammon

has anyone used the lame-enc.dll for converting stuff to mp3 ?  http://www.fi.muni.cz/~qruzicka/Smid/man.htm.iso-8859-1

I think an application I installed could use it as a plugin, just 
by copying it into the program dir...

...but you probably mean api calls to it

yeah ....

then no... :) sorry

but there is a command line version as well

are you having trouble with it ?

that's probably just a command-line wrapper around the dll ...  where 
to get this command line version ?

I just saw it while I was surfing ...

LAMEEnc   http://www.mp3dev.org/

a gnu thingy ...

Sweet, I think I got my first hit as a result of a REBOL-related 
search on Google today :-)

Lame ain't an MP3 encoder

you're trying to connect this back to Q aren't you?

nope.

That's not what it says at mp3dev.org : "LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder."

ok

% lame [options] inputfile [outputfile]

I want a way to generate mp3 voice mail .. this does the mp3 encoding.

Now to find a way to actually record a wav file from within rebol.

dunno why, but the windows sound recorder seems to record my voice 
very soft ... can't hear the results audibly.

I would like to do that too.

Got my microphone all the way up high too.

There is a 20dB mic boost option in the windows sound options.

Go into properties and select recording options (I think.) It's such 
a damn confusing user interface...!

Once microphone is selected to be displayed, then you can click on 
Advanced to get the 20dB boost.

properties?

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices

under Volume/Device Volume, tick "Place Volume Icon in the taskbar"

click OK.  Double click on the volume icon in the task bar -> now 
properties

(Options/properties)

must be hardware specific ..

don't see such an option

very odd because when I use skype, people can hear me fine when I 
use the same setup.

hey, I found a microphone boost option after all!  :)

it was on the recording control screen, and there was an advanced 
button at the bottom middle

Of course, where else would it be?

I"d swear that button wasn't there before! :)

It probably wasn't

:) like I said, it's a difficult interface

there's  win32 program out there called mpegrec.exe which records 
straight from mic or line in to mp3

uses lame as well for the mp3 encoding.

sounds promising. :)

Hmm.  I have to send a Control-C to stop it recording if I don't 
specify a time interval.

what would be better ?