Active Sound Recorder

A useful ActiveX control which makes it easy to add sound recording capabilities to applications
Active Sound Recorder is a useful ActiveX control which makes it easy to add sound recording capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET.

Active Sound Recorder is designed to work directly with your sound card or with your CD/DVD player, so you can record almost any audio including that from microphone, line-in jack or CD player, at near-perfect quality.

The whole recorded sound can be kept in memory for later use or stored on the hard disk using several formats: WAV, MP3, WMA and OGG Vorbis; once a recording session has been completed, it's possible to hear recorded sound through a very basic playback system.

The integrated Sound Activation System allows pausing a recording session automatically when no sound is being heard: this will help saving valuable space both in memory and on disk.

Thanks to the integration with FreeDb servers (CDDB), the control can obtain information about the CD currently in ripping phase and, if available on the Amazon web site, the control can obtain the CD cover pictures as well.

Main features of Active Sound Recorder:

Recording from the system default sound card

CD ripping

Saving in WAV format

Real-time visual feedback (VU-Meter, Oscilloscope, Spectrum, Waveform display)

Events for reporting memory or file size occupation in real time

Recording from any DirectSound compatible sound card available inside the system

Sound Activation System (automatically skips silence periods)

Saving in MP3 format (through the Lame encoder)

Saving in WMA format (through the Windows Media Audio modules)

Saving in OGG Vorbis format (through the OggEnc encoder)

CDDB database queries (through FreeDb servers)

CD cover pictures retrieval (through Amazon Web Services)


Limitations of Active Sound Recorder:

The application is a demo showcasing some control's option for performing an advanced recording session.

Free Download ( Evaluation | 4.8 MB )