No, Dane wrote that; Steve just forwarded it, to be perfectly anal about all 
this!

-Mac-
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Total Recorder V7 just keeps getting better


This is just my $0.02, but I think it's an interesting way to start out
a positive article, i.e. referring to your Windows PC and a Trashbox PC.
I know it discourages me, a Windows PC user, from reading the rest of
the article.

Steve Pattison wrote:
> 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
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>
>
>
>
> ******************************
> 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
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