How can I record what is playng in my windows mediaplayer? like radio music. and stop when it reaches a sertan size like 12mb

Your best bet is a program called "Total Recorder" but it's not a freebie. Alternatively you can use a cable with a 3.5 mm plug at each end. You connect if from your line or speaker output, back to line in. Fiddling but it does work, I did it that way for yonks. If you use speaker output you also need an adapter so you can hear the sound at the same time. See if you have a Sound Recorder as part of your Soundcard sofware. The Windows one only runs for one minute, although there is a messy way of extending it by keep recording blanks and making a template. In summary, the problem isn't so much one of stopping the recording at a specific time but producing the recording in the first place. Hopefully you will get some other ideas on this one. Derek.W

"See if you have a Sound Recorder as part of your Soundcard sofware. The Windows one only runs for one minute, although there is a messy way of extending it by keep recording blanks and making a template." ---- How can I extend it now?

Hi Metthew, A quick method I use is when the Sound Recorder gets towards the end of its 60 second limit I left click towards the end of the recording time line. This gives you 20-30 more seconds of recording time. You just keep repeating until you have successfully recorded what you are after. HTH Regards, Phil " .... nuff said! Keep Smiling because I'm Smiling too!"

What I meant was perhaps there is some other Sound Recorder available as part of your Windows software (rather than using the normal Windows one). As regards exending the normal Windows Recorder then you can either do as Phil suggested or you can set up a permanent template for 60 mins or whatever you want. You simply record a blank (ie record with no sound playing), save it, call it up again, re-record another blank and so on. The blank gets longer each time. When you have got it as long as you need, save it as a template and make it read only to preserve it. When you want a longer recording you just call up this template and it will run for whatever time you originally decided. Save your recording to another file. Be aware that the template will be quite large (about 75 Meg for 60 mins if I remember rightly). Derek.W