Tunbite, how do you do it

[Harry]

I've been trying to use a program called Tunebite which is supposed to copy any audio file played on your computer at 4 times the speed of the playback. I am using windows media player 9 to play back and Tunebite to record a 7 hour voice lecture. The trouble is that when I run Tunebite at the 4 x acceleration mode, it will, after awhile, crash and say something like not enough virtual memory. Yet, I can copy anything at 1 to 1 speed with no problem but the time it takes is too slow especially when you have about thirty 7 hour lectures you want to copy. But it never ever crashes when I copy files at one to one speed.

Should I use another program other than Media Player 9 to play back the files so that maybe they can be recorded at a faster speed?
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Also, the 7 hour lectures are amazingly low in file size at 14 to 15 megabytes each. In Windows Media Player (File scroll to) Properties of the lecture file, it identifies the file as Windows media audio 9 Voice, 4 kbps, 8 kHz, mono.

Tunebite does not offer this option.. The best they offer for recording output with CBR (constant bit rate) is 32kbs, 44kbs, stereo which gives a file size of 100 megabytes as opposed to the original 14mbs.

In Tunebite, if I used the mp3 output at the lowest bit rate offered which is 96kb in stereo. I end up with a 300 megabyte file for those seven hours as compared to 14 megs.

If I use the WMA format with (virtual bit rates) VBR, I can save the files at 10kbs, 44mhz and two channel stereo. But it will not give me the option to save the sound files at 4 kbps, 8 kHz, mono. So how can I copy files near the same file size as that of the original 14 megabytes.

[EzyStvy]

I might have missed something, but couldn't you just right click on the file(s) and paste them to another folder to make a copy?

[Harry]

No, because the files are time coded with DRM and there is no way that anyone knows how to decode them. Each file lasts two weeks after which it is unplayable.

[doctorgonzo]

Have you tried burning the files to CD from WMP?

[Harry]

Yeah, I burned 8 of them on to a CD in the exact WMA format. But as this was a straight copy, I'm 99 percent sure it still has the coding included. I don't know about burning them to WAV because I backed off from that because I thought that 7 hours would come out to more than a CD could hold but then actually it's based on the file size of the file which in every case is not more than about 15 megabytes. So maybe each wave file might only end up being about 150 to 200 megabytes. I'll try that and see what happens. .

[doctorgonzo]

So you just put the WMA files on the CD? I am talking about burning a music CD, not the data files.

[Harry]

OK, I just tried using a program called Super Audio Converter which is supposed to do such things as convert WMA files to either mp3, wav, ogg or vqf. It wasn't able to convert to wav or mp3 and says Error Occurred While opening the Input File. I have a feeling the DRM coding might not let you.

Maybe I should try it directly with Nero and see what happens. If you know a better way for the conversion, let me know

[Harry]

Well, I don't think it would be practical to burn it as a WAV file to CD because doesn't a CD go by time. If each of those lectures is 7 hours long, how do you get 7 hours of lecture on to one 80 minute CD and I don't want to burn like 5 CDs for each lecture. But if you could burn it to a DVD disc then maybe yeah.

[Harry]

OK,

Nero does not seem to be recognizing the whole .wma file. It only shows 23 minutes for the first file and 66 minutes for the second file. Each of those is about a 7 hour recording.