What you want is Audacity. It is free, runs on Windows and Mac, and is simple to use. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ JP **************************************************** Jonathan Perkins Associate Director Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center University of Kansas 4070 Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence KS 66045-7590 Phone: (785) 864-4782 Fax: (785) 864-1256 -----4-- from [log in to unmask] Many of us use Audacity, free recording software that can save in MP3 or Ogg formats as well as WAV. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ **************************************************** Read Gilgen Director L&S Learning Support Services University of Wisconsin - Madison (608) 262-1408 [log in to unmask] -----5-- from [log in to unmask] Hi Susan, I've had very good success with a zippy little program called RecordPad, from a company called NCH in Australia. They offer a decent trial period to play with it and is not very expensive. It has an almost idiot-proof interface, which is great. You can make little .mp3 (or .wav or .aiff) recordings and make all sorts of adjustments in bitrate settings to to save space depending on the need for quality. You can specify their output folder and ALSO (the kicker) have the program automatically email them to any specified address or even dump them via ftp into a designated server directory, from whence faculty can retrieve. Perhaps worth checking out? (Also check out their invaluable Switch app, which comes bundled if you purchase.) Find it at: http://www.nch.com.au/recordpad/index.html cheers, Ellen -----6-- from [log in to unmask] Susan, You're probably going to get a flood of these answers, and my guess is that many will say Audacity! Audacity is an open source audio editing program that works on Mac, PC and Linux platforms (the latter is especially important to us given the number of engineering students we have) - see http://audacity.sourceforge.net. We introduced this in language curricula a few years ago, and it has become the standard supported audio editing tool across campus. There are many other options, some free, many not, so this is by no means the only choice. But it has worked well for us for general purpose recording for many different curricular purposes & multimedia projects. Saving in MP3 format requires the additional download of a LAME MP3 encoder, but it isn't hard to set up. Best, Samantha Earp Head, Instructional Medai & Language Technology Services Duke University -----7-- from [log in to unmask] We are using Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) it is free and very versatile - maybe to much so for some. We also use the DL recorder available from Dartmouth (great in its straight forward design) - but as of now only can read not convert to MP3. I understand they are working on mp3. Wolfgang -----8-- from [log in to unmask] Hi Susan, We use Audacity with the LAME mp3 encoder - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ For the most part instructors and students find the interface easy to use. It has some advanced features that are easy to ignore when they aren't needed. We have developed a few training materials, if your interested, which can be found at: http://babel.lss.wisc.edu/~doug/audacity/ and http://babel.lss.wisc.edu/podcasting/ Thanks! Doug --- Doug Worsham Foreign Language Technologist AV Services Coordinator L&S Learning Support Services 246 Van Hise Hall, UW-Madison Madison, WI 53706 608/262-4965 [log in to unmask] http://babel.lss.wisc.edu/~doug/ -----9-- from [log in to unmask] dl-recorder simplifies the recording process and gets away from the complex interface of more sophisticated programs. It was built to replace the language lab cassette recorder and provides the same functionality students and instructors are used to. Otmar Foelsche Dartmouth College *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************