How Are You Recording Your Skype Calls?

November 28th, 2005

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How Are You Recording Your Skype Calls?

Quick question. I’ve done some research into recording Skype calls, and the options are manifold. From the altar of Google:

Good old Audacity.
However, apparently it’s a
little touchy when recording Skype calls.
Others recommend a simple line-out recorder like Total
Recorder.
Or something more sophisticated like Hot
Recorder VoIP.
Alternately, there’s Skylook 1.0.

What do you recommend? I’m sorry Macophiles, but this has to happen on my Windows desktop machine, so keep your fracking Audio Hijack to yourself.

UPDATE: I eventually followed a link somewhere and happened upon Pamela, which works like a charm.

Comments: 12 Responses so far

dreamfish
November 28th, 2005
11:25 am

I was going to suggest this (which is what I use and works fine):
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=19094

… but then noticed you specified Windows >:)

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Matt
November 28th, 2005
12:00 pm

I’m going to be so happy when the Mac is ported over to the Intel chip. It’s going to make cross platform applications much easier, methinks. It’ll become more about which interface, backend, support and integration works best for any particular user. Of course, the Mac will still be the best. But at least you won’t have to ask us to keep our “fracking Audio Hijack” to ourselves. BTW, fracking? Cute.

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roland tanglao
November 28th, 2005
1:24 pm

if you are using a mac, use WireTap Pro unless you really like hard to use software (i own both but WireTap Pro is good enough for most people and far cheaper!)

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Nicole Simon
November 28th, 2005
4:05 pm

I use an external routing for my Skype interviews as I have found none of the others sofware solutions working yet.

Any recording device with monitoring function will work, just uncheck “mic out” in the settings.

(Mail me if this works for you and you would like more information how to set this up.)

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Cameron Reilly
November 28th, 2005
5:57 pm

Skylook works great but requires Outlook. Powergramo is new and is great when it works, but a couple of times it has failed to produce a recording for me, which is mighty unfortunate. Keep an eye on it though. They might get it right.

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Cameron Reilly
November 28th, 2005
6:00 pm

hey you wouldn’t be thinking of doing a podcast, would ya Darren? You’re not smoking the dope, remember?

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Darren
November 28th, 2005
6:25 pm

Cameron: Naahhh…I’ve just got a few conversations I need to record.

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Mike K.
November 28th, 2005
6:27 pm

Sorry Matt,

But Apple switching to Intel isn’t going to help apps like Audio Hijack appear on anything but OS X.

Audio Hijack and its cousins are written in Objective C, targetted for the OS X Cocoa application platform. Unfortunately, this doesn’t port to Windows very easily. So yeah, you’ll be able to run AudioHijack on OS X for x86 … on an Apple Mac.

Not much different than today. :)

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Neela
November 29th, 2005
11:43 pm

Hey, Was great reading your blog. I also cover up similar topics at http://iamtagged.blogspot.com.

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roland tanglao
November 30th, 2005
5:40 pm

i know u are not on a mac but i would recommend WireTap Pro unless you like figuring out harder to use software like AudioHijackPro (i own both but vastly prefer WireTap Pro)

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