From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: VIP-L Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everyone! Well to be honest, I don't have much call for my Trashbox PC these days but this application certainly makes the PC worth the while using. Total Recorder v7 expands on the theme of inovation which was started with V6, some ground breaking features introduced in V& include the ability to "time shift" recordings or as the procedure is otherwise known, "Chase Playback". I will hereby refer to "Time Shifting" as "Chase Playback" in this article because the term to "Time Shift" actually applies to other audio editing and reproduction procedures. So what is "Chase Playback"? Perhaps the following examples best illustrate the facility. You'll no doubt be aware that with a Tape deck or VCR, everything is recorded sequentially onto tape, that is to say you can't play back what's been recorded until you press "stop", then rewind the tape and press "Play", this means of course that you cannot record anything whilst playing the content you previously recorded unless you have say another deck or VCR connected to take over the recording from where your other recorder left off. "Chase Playback" changes that, you can start recording, go have a cup of coffee, press the "play button" and start playing from the start of the recording. You could also use this facility say if the phone rings, pause the playback, Total Recorder keeps recording till you've finished with your phone call, then press the Pause button again to resume listening from where you left off. This feature is an admirable enhancement to any audio or video recording package and I'm extremely disappointed that Audio Hijack Pro for the Mac still does not have a similar feature, will that come? Well who knows but I guess we can just keep knocking on the door of the developers of Audio Hijack and hope for the best. "Chase Playback" with Total Recorder is not without its faults however, I used "Chase Playback" this evening, started the function halfway through a recording of a 30 minute news bulletin, about 15 minutes later the Playback suddenly stopped and it only took me a few seconds to realise why. The scheduler for Total Recorder had stopped recording the audio source exactly 30 minutes after it had started, so far so good. I'd started the "chase playback" halfway through so when the recording stopped? Well so did the "Chase Playback", I was able to resume by pressing "play" and thus hear the bulletin to the end but I have to admit, this distraction was rather annoying and surely, their must be a work around to avoid this sort of thing happening, I've sent a note to the developers of Total Recorder so we'll see what happens. Now we come to a second part of Total Recorder V7 which I believe to be a great leap forward and that's the ability to "Capture" Internet streams in their native format, up until now when you've captured an Internet stream the stream has been converted to another format thus usually causing some aspects of audio quality to be lost, you can still have Total Recorder convert to your desired format if that's what you want. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get this "Software Recording" function to work, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't and here we find that Audio Hijack just thrashes Total recorder, with Audio Hijack (as the name suggests), you "hijack" the source you wish to capture and that's the end of the story, record, redirect or whatever but with Total Recorder? Well its a matter of trying to "Troubleshoot" or determine why the software isn't capturing the stream, the Skip call or whatever and as the manual says, this could be for any number of reasons, anything from incompatible software to incompatible drivers but I guess, one shouldn't be surprised when running Windows <smile>. I don't mind admitting that I just gave up using Total Recorder to capture the BBC World Service stream or the audio stream from Radio 2SM in Sydney and got Audio Hijack Pro on the Mac to do the job instead. Should you buy Total Recorder? Well the Professional version at $35.00 U.S> is a "Must Have" in my view if you're wanting to record audio, the "Chase Playback" function sets this application apart from anything else I know about thus far and that alone makes your $40.00 well spent. The audio editor isn't too bad and the rules function makes this software extremely flexible. When I can, i plan to purchase the video add-on. ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:Dane Trethowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone +613 9747 3975 Fax/TTY +61 3 9743 7954 Voiceover Tech Support phone +61 3 8732 9237 mobile/sms: +614 418 773 532 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: callto:grtdane12 ****************************** ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:Dane Trethowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone +61 3 8732 9237 Fax/TTY +61 3 9743 7954 mobile/sms: +614 418 773 532 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: callto:grtdane12 ****************************** Regards Steve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows Live Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
