To your eMail first, what formats Total Recorder does or doesn't support
really isn't an issue these days, so long as the software can record in
Wave or a lossless format then its no big problem given the many file
conversion utilities out there such as Switch but yes, I take your point
about AAC and it is a little surprising I have to admit.
Now regarding the background feature, I jsut tried it and all I can say
is wonderful! just schedule what you want to record from the Internet
and that's all you do, no interruptions from your Screen Reader or
anything else you may be doing on your computer whilst recording, no
.need to leave your browser open and the stream playing whilst Total
Recorder Professional records and so on, thanks to the list memember who
alerted me to this.
On 17/11/2014 6:05 AM, Aidan wrote:
Yes, the only thing they stil need to add, is support for aac plus
formats. That is where tap in radio shines. But that being said, the
stations that do play work very well. And I like it the way you can
sort your favorites and edit them to your liking. You not just stuck
to adding a long list of them. And one of the best things is that you
can easily restore to defaults when you mess up settings you not sure
of. And you can import and export settings wich I don't no if all of
the major editers can do. I also must try background recording. I use
the pro adition. The technical help documents about the driver and
related issues I find very interesting. And unlike the sound tap
program wich is also ment for recording internal audio, with this
driver you can at least control verius aspects such as the recording
volume where necessary. So you don't have to go to windows system
mixer to ajust or the media player internal volume control for
example, as once they set to be loud enough for the most part, total
recorder can take care of the rest and you can make ajustmenst there.
Yes the automatic speech add on is exilint. It works well and I also
use the ogg vorbis add on, and the digital mixer add on and the laim
mp3 encoder. I also like that it can record in 3gp when you need to
save space. I'm not sure what steps you would need to take to record
in GoldWave in 3gp, I guess you need to find the correct encoder and
for some that might be a bit advanced, as GoldWave shines in wave as
that is what it record and where you perform editing anyway. Yes
shortcuts in total recorder is easy, and they make a big
distinguishing between global hotkeys and program spisific shortcuts.
On 16/11/2014, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
I must say I'm impressed with the speed that Total Recorder has when
opening URL's/Streams, very good indeed, have tired it on a few
shoutcast streams.
On 17/11/2014 4:31 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Also, you can background record (maybe you need the professional
version).
Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
I on't record software streams from Total Recorder all that often
these days as I have other ways of doing such things <smile> but if I
recall corrrectly there's an "Exclusions" list somewhere where you can
add those pieces of software you don't want to record the audio from,
JAWS for example.
On 17/11/2014 3:43 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
I have been using Total Recorder since either 22008 or 2009; the only
thing
I know of that would make it even better for me is if there were some
way
(and maybe there is and I don't know about it) but if I could record an
audio stream and still use my screen reading software (in my case, that
screen reader would be Jaws 16) now I am using the standard version of
TR;
have never been clear if I went to the "pro" version if I could then
record
and still do things like listen and type emails and such or not! This
is
one of the neat things I like about Tapin Radio; you can do whatever
you
want with your computer and it won't mess up your recording as Tapin
Radio
records _directly_ from the internet!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 1:49 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reinstalled Total Recorder
Ye, I can understand where you're coming from there and that makes
perfect sense.
I haven't been using Total Recorder a lot mainly due to the reasons I
outlined in the first eMail of this discussion but there is still
nothing that equals the recording power of the Total Recorder software
package under Windows to my knowledge.
I've been using Total Recorder since early 2003 - I started using it
when the swecond Gulf war started - and the software has never let me
down and has produced very good recordings which is more than I can say
for some of the more expensive pieces of software which do two things
obviously, promise so much but deliver so little and take an eternity
to
actually get the recording started.
On 16/11/2014 5:37 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
I don't use TR as much as I used to...only because I record a lot with
Tapin
Radio when recording audio streams! But I agree whole-heartedly that
Total
Recorder is a fine program!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of ken
reed
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:42 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reinstalled Total Recorder
Hi Dane, I couldn't agree more.
I've been using t r for about 12 years now, and I don't know why there
isn't
any excitement about it.
It's the best thing going.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 5:02 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reinstalled Total Recorder
What I'm about to say is my personal point of view but when it comes
to
Audacity then I can only say that people just have time to waste.
Yeah sure! its free but all the ucking about that people seem to have
to
do to get the thing working when there's stuff like Total Recorder
just
sitting there waiting to be part of your software collection and
again,
the software doesn't cost a Kings Ransom - even if you get the Video
Edition which I have -.
I haven't played with too many of the add-ons available though I've
used
the speech add-on and its not too bad, again cheap at $32 I think it
was.
The Editor in the Professional version does a pretty slick hob though
I've changed a few of the keyboard shortcuts to reflect my personal
tasts, changing shortcut keys isn't difficult either.
And finally, You're absolutely spot-on when you talk of the excellent
support from High Criteria, just go onto their web site and look at
the
various tutorials and primers, not only on products from High Criteria
but on associated topics such as recording different types of audio
etc.
On 16/11/2014 8:44 AM, Aidan wrote:
Yes, its the best program out there I found. Many people don't
believe
it. Why should many struggle to use complex stuff like audacity if
this can do such a good job? I understand for advanced stuff you
would
go furder but really this help in so many remarks. I like the fact
that you can split files in realtime manually. I don't even think it
can be done with GoldWave. Split by time many programs supports, but
split manually is something to struggle to find. The skedular is easy
to use and I like the fact that each dialog that might pup up have a
copy and debug button so you can send them all the info they need. It
also have a system as whereby you can save bug info settings to a
file
and stuff so you can send to tech support. There staff is really
helpful and with such kind of tools they can easyer help you solve
problems and you can actually get the help you need. I really think
people should try it before they give it up. If you install it with
the default settings and don't change the driver moad, then you will
be fine on most newer systems.
On 15/11/2014, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
I've just reinstlaled this software onto my Desktop, haven't used
Total
Recorder for absolute ages, I've been meaning to reinstall since my
system had a major crash last year bu never got around to doing the
job
until now, its like having an old friend back when that software is
handy to the fingertips and whoever set the price at High Criteria
at
$35 for the Professional Total Recorder version sure gave us a
bartain -
if nt a giveaway price -.
Anyway to the point, I've been setting up some schedules and other
stuff
and I note that many of the problems I'd noted in previous versions
of
the product seem to have been dealt with and I'm sure I'm not the
only
one to have written to High Criteria either so thanks to those on
this
and other lists who bothered to give High Criteria excellent
feedback.
The sluggish menu navigation seems to have been fixed, there was a
delay
between the time you pressed a navigation key in the menu system and
the
time the computer spoke, very annoying.
