I use Real Encoder free from the real audio site (probably Real Producer
now, as I recall) and launch recording from a DOS (actually MKS Korn
Shell) command line. The duration and bitrate and output file are
all arguments. At 8kbs (good for voice but not music) it's 4mb/hr.

However, you have to decide if you want to archive the recordings;
I go to cassette tape with a Viking International 10hr (1/5 speed)
recorder, and save those forever; in addition in parallel the real
encoder, in case I want to save a snippet on the HD; and usually as
well a RipFlash IC recorder at 64kbs just for instant backup at high
fidelity. That's on programs I want to save, and possibly save on the
HD for segments later.

Anyway the R8B turns on at 5:30am to WFAN, and the real encoder
starts up on the clock; the 10hr recorder starts on audio presence;
and I have to be there to start the IC recorder.

The primitive cassette tape is the only format likely to survive
technical advance, of the three.
--
Ron Hardin


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