Vista - XP Sound Recorder: MPEG Layer-3

I need MPEG Layer-3!

I’ve installed my old XP Sound Recorder into my new (Vista) computer. It works… but lacks the MPEG Layer-3 Format I need for compressing WAVs.

In his earlier reply to me at
http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/189750-vista-vs-xp-sound-recorder.html ,
sanantonio007 says he can now access MPEG Layer-3 in XP Sound Recorder after following Brady Lee’s instructions here:
Help...This Missing CODEC thing is making me crazy

Lee’s instructions say that the “missing” codec problem is due to a Windows/System 32 file that should read l3codecp.acm instead of l3codeca.acm.
Lee goes on to describe a regedit modification to change the l3codeca.acm file to l3codecp.acm.

However, I already have a l3codecp.acm file in Windows/System 32 (as well as the “erroneous” l3codeca.acm.)
So that doesn’t look like my solution.

Someone else told me that if I downloaded the MPEG Layer-3 codec from a dbpoweramp music converter link, it would install itself everywhere - & my XP Sound Recorder would be back up and running.

Has anyone tried that?
Does anyone know if (or where) I could get just the dbpoweramp MPEG Layer-3 codec, & not lots of other stuff I don’t need or want?

Better yet… does anyone have a simpler solution?
All I want is to run my old XP Sound Recorder in Vista – WITH the MPEG Layer-3 Format WAV compression format, like it used to have!!!

Download and install the codec pack from the below URL :

Free-Codecs.com :: Download K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 4.7.0 : The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack includes the K-Lite Codec Pack Full, QuickTime Alternative, Real Alternative support and Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder.

Are you trying to record something that will create an MP3 file?

edit: record using the vista sound recorder then use a program from here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...t+.wav+to+.mp3

ferrisits -

I downloaded the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, & it did the trick. Now I can access the XP Sound Recorder formats & attributes I want.

Thanks!!!

pacinitaly -

Thanks for the tip, but actually, I was just trying to make my old XP Sound Recorder work in Vista the way it used to in XP, for the sake of convenience.

I have Audacity for full-scale audio editing, but I wanted to use Windows XP Sound Recorder the way I used to, pre-Vista - for quickie conversions: compressing wav files for emailing, etc.

I appreciate your input!!

thank you
I have been trying to find a file like I have on XP called messer
but nothing works. Whenever I try to record a stream, I also record sounds from the mic. If I disable or uninstall, the recording does not work.

stay well and good luck with that ( I'm going to try what you did)

pacinitaly -

Do you have Audacity? I swear by it, & recommend it very highly. I use it for recording audio streams - plus a whole lot else.
Thankfully, it works as easily & as well in Vista (after a tiny bit of finagling!) as it had in XP.
Good luck!!

Thank you again very much