Sound Recorder

Information on audio recording software for linux:

• Multimedia Audio and Video in Linux

Using the Windows Sound Recorder for Windows XP

• Open the Windows Sound Recorder located in Program Files/Accessories under Entertainment or MultiMedia (depending on version of Windows). To begin recording, click the Record button Image of the record button on sound recorder and speak into the microphone.
• The binary executable is: sndrec32.exe
• Windows 10 does not include sndrec32.exe, however, it can be copied from a Windows XP machine onto Windows 10 and it may execute, an associated DLL 'sndred32.dll' may also be required.

The Vista version can record for longer durations but contains fewer options, and cannot play back recorded sound.

In all versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows Vista, Sound Recorder was based on Audio Compression Manager. It could open and save audio in 8-bit or 16-bit uncompressed PCM format (.wav) from 8 kHz to 48 kHz, including CD Quality audio (44,100 Hz, 16-bit, stereo PCM).[citation needed]

Although Sound Recorder only saved in the .wav format, it could use any of the installed ACM codecs to compress the audio; typically several voice codecs and the MPEG Layer III (MP3) codec were installed by default. As ACM supported only Constant bitrate (CBR) stereo audio files. Sound recorder did not support Variable bitrate (VBR) files or multichannel audio.