Recording Audio with AutoHotkey and BASS dll
Channel: AUTOHOTKEY Gurus
Date: 2021-12-16

In this video I walk through how to record audio with AutoHotkey and BASS.dll.  I tested recording in .mp3 , .wav, .ogg, and .aiff file formats.

You can get the files I mention in the video here: 
https://the-Automator.com/BASS
TLDR: The video provides tips and tricks for audio recording using AutoHotkey and shares a bass.dll file, while also discussing recent news about SpaceX and Facebook.

1. 00:00 📝 Joe Glines shares a bass.dll file for audio recording using AutoHotkey.
 1.1 Joe Glynes from the Automator shares a bass.dll file found on a forum that allows for audio recording using AutoHotkey.

2. 01:17 🎤 AutoHotkey allows changing the recording format extension, but it requires forcing the program's bitness using a provided function in the script.
 2.1 You can change the extension of the recording format in AutoHotkey, but it depends on the bitness of the program, which can be forced using a function provided in the script.

3. 02:08 🔧 Learn how to change the bass dll path and add an accelerator key for recording in an advanced script.
 3.1 The speaker explains how to change the bass dll path in an advanced script and adds an accelerator key to start and stop recording.

4. 03:34  Adjust the width to 230 to move the content and work on making it wider.

5. 03:52 📰 Facebook is facing backlash and losing advertisers due to their handling of hate speech and misinformation on their platform.
 5.1 The speaker is going through a script, writing a header and flattening out some code to make it more concise.

6. 04:45 📝 Use start record and alt. T to stop recording in code.
 6.1 The speaker explains how to use the start record functionality and alt. T to stop the record in a code example.

7. 05:36 🔧 Learned to use colon equals instead of equal sign and "uint" instead of "unit" for efficiency to fix expression not setting to zero.
 7.1 The speaker encountered an issue with an expression not setting to zero, but found success using a colon equals instead of an equal sign, and also learned about using "uint" instead of "unit" for efficiency.

8. 06:37 🎧 Use VLC media player to easily record and convert audio files, and skip unnecessary sample rate experimentation.
 8.1 Recording audio using hotkeys and easily changing file formats with VLC media player.
 8.2 The speaker experimented with changing the samples per second in an audio file script, but ultimately found it unnecessary and suggests using a built-in Windows audio player recorder instead.