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To: AugustWest who wrote (19080)	4/25/2001 8:08:48 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) of 110644

To follow up on what CatLady said, I read this review about 6 months ago in the Washington Post...note that it was version 2.2 at that time. From a Washington Post personal tech review site. washingtonpost.com TOTAL RECORDER 2.2, What: Sound-recording utility. Details: Software in this category all pretty much does the same thing: make a digital file out of an analog audio source. But Total Recorder goes one step further. It can make digital recordings from digital sources, including those that aren't meant to be captured, like live Internet broadcasts or RealAudio streams. While it can be illegal to decode protected formats like RealAudio, it's perfectly legal to record the audio stream after RealAudio (or whatever the software may be) has decoded it. And that's what Total Recorder does, recording the audio as your sound card plays it. This option-heavy program was surprisingly easy to use--it required absolutely no configuration and worked perfectly after the install, recording a .wav file from a RealAudio stream with outstanding fidelity. Total Recorder also offers some nifty ease-of-use features. For example, you can click the record button before a broadcast starts without worrying about deleting that opening silence later on; it's smart enough to wait to begin recording until the audio starts, then stop recording when the audio ends. It also allows simple cut-and-paste editing of a recording and can even "tape" at a scheduled time. The only downside is that it won't save sound files in MP3 format, but plenty of other programs can handle that conversion. Bottom line: VCR-like convenience for digital-music fans.

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