Sermon Recording built into the application

[brainier]

We use i-Sound MP3/WMA Recorder (http://www.mp3-wma-recorder.com/purchase.shtml - they have a charity price) and it is easy to use to record our sermons to a file on the Zionworx's PC. But its another application, and sometimes people forget to start it at the beginning of the sermon. We have some custom developed code that uploads the sermon recordings to our website and updates the website database to publish the sermon for downloading, but I am interested in the idea of having ZW having an MP3 recording module.

Maybe a property of a PPT presentation is that it should be recorded, and so when ZW starts that slideshow the recording starts too? With the option for manual overrides etc.

WDYT?

[intuitas]

An interesting idea!

Perhaps, just as Zionworx can launch Powerpoint, an option to launch other software automatically might be an alternative.

Regards,

Paul

[AliBy]

We use this .. unfortunately not opensource ... but it is really great. and can create tracks for massages using blank/pause detection plus a few other useful editing features

http://www.mpesch3.de/

[paulstokes]

can create tracks for massages

Hmm... sounds like an interesting component to corporate worship!

[AliBy]

M-E-S-S-A-G-E-S

[gagar]

at our church we use a program called audacity and we just have it in the startup folder on the computer so when you turn the computer on it opens it up automaticly and i think audacity is a free program

it's worth a try!

[Jonathan Hills]

Audacity is free and very good, you can download it here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

[York Pilson]

We have been using Audicity and had good success with it. Running it on a Dell 800 laptop with XP, I am able to bring Audacity up full-screen and record without it interfering with the Zionworx display. I just put together a live album (does that term date me?) of an Emmaus gathering we hosted a couple of weeks ago.

[brainier]

The one issue I have with Audacity is that it is over complicated for the purposes of recording sermons.

I use it to edit the recordings (remove extra content because someone forgot to stop the recording software we use), and have previously dubbed a Q/A session becuase we had only one microphone and so the questions did not come out on the recording.

In our church the people to assist in running the projection are not all technically minded - so we have a simple recording program (see first post in this thread) and though not free (£20 I think) it is one click record and no other options (they exist, but they are hidden from the user, unlike Audacity).

Brian

[AliBy]

You really should consider MP3DirectCut mentioned above.
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

It's FREEWARE, a small install footprint, and very simple to use:
* Writes MP3's directly to disk (Saves space and won't loose data - if the computer crashes/power out what's written is safe)
* Visual Audio Wave during record & playback (zoom/pan)
* Record Level and time
* Other basic editing (related to gain: cutting, fade in/out, creating tracks etc) are all placed well enough so that it is not over whelming to the basic operator.

FEATURES
* Non-destructive cut, copy, paste
* Volume change, fade, normalize, pause detection
* mp3 recording with ACM or Lame encoder
* Fast mp3 visualisation and easy navigation
* Supports Layer 2 (dvd/dvb audio)
* ID3v1.1 tag editor, ID3v2 tag keeping
* Cue Sheet support
* Auto cue (track dividing by time values)
* Track splitting with filename and ID3v1.1 tag creation
* VU meter, bitrate visualisation
* High speed recorder
* Fast play
* Command line usage