Shame on you HP

I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9695ea high spec laptop or so I thought.

17" Display, 4GB Ram, 2x 160gb Drives etc. This will be an ideal multimedia machine I thought until I tried to record sound.

I played an MP3 and tried to record the sound to make a ringtone for my mobile and was horrified when I played back the recording. I could hear the TV in the background and realised that it had used the speaker output and the built in webcam mic rather than the sound bus.

I looked into this and my £1,099.99 brand new computer was not capable of selecting anything but the mic line as a recording source.

RealTek have done it again. Produced hardware with the least spec possible and got HP to use it.

I cannot believe that HP technical division were happy to use this rubbish in an high end laptop.

So a warning to you all. If you use multimedia at all, DONT chose HP as they will let you down.

I am now left with having to source a replacement for my brand new laptop if anyone can offer any advise.

Paul

 

how fast is yout cpu

 

and what recording program did u use

 

And please don't double post like that, dondadah88.

 

I don't understand. Did you not use a recording device?

Or are you just trying to record a sound playing on your computer? Why not just convert from .MP3 to .WAV?

 

if u wanna get an mp3 into a different format just convert it. (maybe from .mp3 to .wav), (maybe using the freeware program, SUPER), To record audio from a source, id reccomend using a wire with a 1/8 jack at both ends and running from the source, be it an ipod, mp3 player or headphone jack from your hp directly into the microphone port of your computer, it works believe me. Ive done it to record my own joke cassette tape back to my computer using a walkman as the source device. Highly reccomend audicity, its a freeware professional level recording program and use it for audio editing of my home made movies as well. A 1/8 jack to 1/8 jack wire can be found in most stores who carry home stero systems, like walmart, kmart, bestbuy or watever. Please use this information for only legal purposes and your own personal created mp3 files and NOT COPYRIGHTED WORKS. I use this mainly to bring older personal made cassette tapes into my computer. Most notebooks have crappy micropones if they're built in, as well as crappy speakers. Recording bad sounding speakers with a bad microphone is a bad idea. If your just trying to record sound, just buy a better microphone and hook it into the microphone jack. If u want better sound buy better speakers. I doubt any computer will make much of a difference. I think the problem lies not with your computer but rather your method. I hope this helps.

 

hey man your not doing it right, directions...
1.) make sure your mic is plugged in the right port. Its the one in the front closest to the right. (theres a little pic of a mic next to it)
2.) right click on the speaker in the desktop tool bar. click recording devices.
3.) A list will pop up, it will list all the recording devices plugged in.
4.) right click on the recording device you want to use, then set it as your default recorder.

EDIT: my bad i thought you had a dv9500t, well find the jack on it where you plug a mic in. the do the rest of the steps if you have vista.

 

hehe actually the port is the one all the way on the left...

 

If you want to make an mp3 ringtone, just use an mp3 splitter and make it the right size.

 

isn't there a program to use for this. All you have to do is convert wav to mp3