Lost Sound Track

[Martin Eves]

Hi All

I need some help. I have been working on an old project most of the file I have found but I can not find the sound track that I used. I have a copy of the old EXE file with the sound track. Is there any way I can get the sound from that?

Thanks for any help

Martin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Martin,

You can use an audio recorder software (inexpensive or free) which picks up the sound signal from the audio card and saves it as a wav then converts to mp3. This is the one I use:

http://www.mp3-recorder.biz/

There may be a free one available - check around the web. Unfortunately the Windows recorder (the one which comes with Windows) is limited to about 30 seconds.....

Lin

Hi All

I need some help. I have been working on an old project most of the file I have found but I can not find the sound track that I used. I have a copy of the old EXE file with the sound track. Is there any way I can get the sound from that?

Thanks for any help

Martin

[Martin Eves]

Thanks Lin,

I will give that a try.

Regards

Martin

[nobeefstu]

Martin,

Here is a fast & little known trick to obtain all your music using Audacity Digital Audio Editor.

-Open Audacity and use File/Open to select your PTE show exe.

-Once the music is imported ... save to any music format or edit as you wish.

[jfa]

Martin,

Here is a fast & little known trick to obtain all your music using Audacity Digital Audio Editor.

-Open Audacity and use File/Open to select your PTE show exe.

-Once the music is imported ... save to any music format or edit as you wish.

This is a very interesting "undocumented function" of Audacity.

On trying it I get varied results.

Several show .exe files I have created using .wav files only give me a short burst of noise.

Other shows work as indicated but I'm not sure what type of sound file was used, (to long ago for an oldie to remember, I think mp3).

Yet others will close Audacity with the error message "Runtime error -- path to audacity.exe shown -- abnormal program termination".

[Martin Eves]

Martin,

Here is a fast & little known trick to obtain all your music using Audacity Digital Audio Editor.

-Open Audacity and use File/Open to select your PTE show exe.

-Once the music is imported ... save to any music format or edit as you wish.

This worked a treat. There was a burst of noise for about half a second then it was fine. Just needed to to trim the start of the file.

Thanks I will have to remembern this one

Regards

Martin