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This is an identical recording to Jim's  So you don't need to listen to both. 

Susan and I won't be able to join you on Sunday, October 28.  Here is our Skype call recording.  We talked about our experience using Audacity, Audio Repeater, and Skype.  Today was a good day!

Thanks to Jose's video I was able to record a sample conversation with the Skype lady.  I'm going to document everything here for future reference:

Properties for playback and recording were both set to C-media wave device.

Audio repeater settings: in- headset mic   out- C-media wave device

Audacity preferences were both C-media

Skype options were both C-media

 

I am not sure which setting is off- I start audio repeater and hear it on my computer speakers not my headset.  When I change settings to hear in my headset nothing records.  What am I doing wrong?  I have listened and viewed all information on webcastacademy's site.  It IS frustrating.  I have been working on this for the past 3 days.  I do get a recording when the Skype lady talks via the microphone.  When I mute the microphone I do not get any sound from the Skype lady=(  I have played with different settings.  Please help!

I have spent about 4 hours trying to get a recording from the Skype test call lady recorded.

I have succeeded in getting better sound on Audacity.

Oh and I am using Vista. My sticking point seems to be what do I need to have for  the recording in on Audacity.

I think I have tried every setting and I can't get sounds off of Skype recorded.

 

I have looked everywhere for info.

I think I have the correct path:

1.    Set up Nicecast so it joins the Skype feed with the usb headphone mike feed,
2.    Set up Audio hijack pro to record, installed hijack plugin so I don't have to restart Skype, and recorded call
3. Opened in Audacity (1.25 instead of 1.33 because of crashing problem), export as mp3 with bitrate set to 64.

4. Note had to re-export mp3 in audacity 1.33 in order to have the sampling rate be 44khz, 1.25 seems to export a stereo mix at 44khz and makes it 22khz or incompatible with Flash player. 

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I'll find out if there is a special place to put links, but here is where the Audacity recording of last night's Foodbridges 2 webcast is:

 

http://www.dennisnewson.de/FB2djn2610.mp3

 

The recording is OK, but the voices have an echo quality as if we were all sitting in caves. What could that be? What settings should be checked?

 

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I have tried to follow the screencast directions and cannot get Audacity to record both my voice and the Skype lady.  It will record her voice but not mine. The screenshots on the screencasts are not  similar to my settings.  Maybe our versions are different.  I'm quitting for the night.  Maybe a good nights rest and starting fresh again tomorrow, I'll be more successful.   

Okay, here goes again.  This is the third submission.  Maybe I'll have it right this time.  Who knows.  :)

 It may not be immediately obvious that you have to click on Audacity setting and Volume setting to see the screenshots.

 

Audacity settings   - stereo mix, note volume of micro

 

Volume settings - micro as high as possible (Too high?) 

 

Dennis 

 

 
07-10-2
(Assignment 2, continued)

I'm not yet prepared to record
a two-way phone conversation,
but a call is in being set up for
this afternoon, so I've got
to review settings more
thoroughly this morning—and
get ready to participate in the "FoodBridges" show in less than 5.5 hours.­ This
show involves Carla Arena, Illya Arnet-Clark, Cristina Costa, Erika Cruvinel,
Dennis Newson, and me. In it, I talk, but I don't yet record or try to "kick the
stream"; I'll be doing that eventually, though.

This afternoon, I'm taking the easier (for me) option: using Nicecast on my Mac,
not Virtual Audio Cable (the mysteries for which are still a kind of Gordian Knot
from my point of view.

Once I make it through the "FoodBridges" show and the phone recording, I'll start trying to untangle VAC in earnest—and to remedy problems I'll likely encounter
using Nicecast.

­D. O.

­

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Jeff asked me to post screenshots of my basic Audacity settings. Apologies for the naff images. If I knew how to do them better - getting rid of background for example - I would. 

Micro setting plus stereo 

 

Other Audacity  settings

 

Mmm. Looks like I've got to upload screenshots to my server before they can be downloaded and inserted here. Tell me if I am wrong about that....What else is possible....OK, I'll give a link....Something tells me it cannot be this complicated..... Next post will contain the images.

 

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I've been asking on class of 2.3 Skype chat for a couple of days for the new passwords for streaming, but all the guys and guyesses are too  shy to 'phone me and let me know.

 

Anyone?

 

Skype knows me as:

 

osnacantab 

Well, I'll be...... I moved for a reference, and lost what I had written here.  Again.....

 Jeff the Boss has suggested I describe how I seem to have made a reasonable recording of a  two-ended conversation without using the audio repeater.

 

My vital statistics are:

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Here is my Intro...

So, I've downloaded VAC and I've watched the screencast on how to set everything up AND IT'S NOT WORKING!  There are too many places to set audio preferences (Skype, Audacity, Windows, Audio Repeater) and I think this is why I can't get both me and the Skype lady to record in Audacity.

I'm in the process of downloading Jing so I can demonstrate all of my settings but, unfortunately, I'm going to run out of time today to do this.  Better luck Saturday.

I consider myself pretty tech savvy and I have to admit I'm really frustrated right now.

I tried to talk my daughter into letting me call her on Skype for the Week #2 assignment but she was not excited about it.

 

Can I talk anyone else into being a volunteer? It would have to be on Sat as school is crazy the next 3 days-Conferences-12 hour days etc.

 

Thanks for your help.

Diane from Oregon 

2007-10-23: The puzzle has a lot more pieces now,
and I'm trying to figure them out. For the telephony
assignment, I'll probably go the Mac route first and
use Nicecast.

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I did it!  I fooled around most the day yesterday with horrible results.  The person on the other end of the Skype call sounded like she was in the middle of a long metal tube.  Today, I opened Audacity and realized that I missed a setting... I forgot to change the drop-down box to "Wave Out Mix."  Once I switched it, it worked!   I decided to add some music to see if I could do it.  The music does not go with the recording at all, but I think I was successful in completing the assignment! 

 

 

Today's Online Meeting

The meeting today was informative and fun.
A sense of camaraderie also developed,
particularly when we were discussing personal
interests and backgrounds:

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