Recording Music with Creative Recorder

Creative, by default, saves recorded files under C:\Documents and Settings\Michael Angelo\My Documents\My Music\Recordings.

 The recorder is listed under Program files, Creative, Creative Recorder.

I listen to music using the Windows Media Player.  To begin a recording session, I setup my computer this way.  I open a Windows Explorer window and make current the \My Music\Recordings directory.  Then I open Media Player and the Creative Recorder.  My screen looks like the following partial screenshot illustrates.  As you can see from the illustration, Recorder is Recording from ‘Wave’ because that is what my Media Player is listening to.  You can also see in the Windows Explorer window a file named Test.wav has been created.  Recordings files grow very large and how large they get depends on sound quality you select in the recorder.  I’m capturing data at 128bits per second, which is considered CD Quality.  A 1 minute recording quickly grows to a 10MB file.  This is why you have a Windows Explorer window open,  so you can monitor and manage the size of the recording files.

Now a CD can hold about 80 minutes of music.  Do the math; 80X10=800MB.  Now, instead of recording a solid 800MB of music, I like to record files in 150 to 250 MB chunks.  Why you ask; because my CD Player will look at each Wav file as one song, regardless of how may songs are actually in that Wav file.  I could get much deeper into this topic but that’s the short of it.  Enjoy.