Another meeting recording down the drain

[Jim Doria]

Well, after an important meeting today with lots of contentious
discussion about many detailed issues, my OneNote recording of same is
useless.

Too late I remembered that I had updated my sound hardware drivers at
some point, which seems to have helpfully reset my mic recording
volume to the default level (sub-low) and turned off the gain boost
setting needed for my external mic to work. I've got an hour and forty
minutes of silence.

OK, it's not OneNote's fault, but....

LEVEL METER! LEVEL METER!! LEVEL METER!!!

The world of PC audio is crap. It is. Especailly on laptops. It's just
too easy for some whacky thing to blow away my carefully tweaked audio
settings, without me even doing something drastic like switching from
my external mic to my telephone recorder.

Any application that *seriously* considers audio recording to be one
of its jobs NEEDS - REQUIRES - MUST HAVE a level meter. Without visual
confirmation that I'm recording something that's at least audible, the
audio recording feature of OneNote is worse than useless. It's crazy-
making.

Help. Please. I'm not kidding.

 

[Tye]

Not that it helps, but I've had this happen too. Hours of not-so-blissful
silence. Not realizing it was silence until I needed to review three days
later.

I second this suggestion.