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Originally Posted by glatt
Maybe I read the description of the two wrong, but my understanding is that you need the pro version to break up the tracks. If I wanted one long 25 minute track for each album side, the regular $12 version would be just fine.
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With Total Recorder, it is in fact very easy to record an album side at once, set Start and End points within the recording and save the selections as individual tracks.
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Originally Posted by tw
Apparently I have overlooked something that makes this package better than free software that comes with PCs.
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The user interface of TR is a hell of a lot more useful than that of Windows's Sound Recorder, if that's to what you are referring. In addition, TR's sales pitch is as follows:
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Total Recorder is a unique solution for recording streaming audio. Most recording programs, rely on the sound card to feedback what has been played. For these solutions, your sound card must have "Stereo Mix" or "What You Hear" recording sources. Instead of relying on the sound card, Total Recorder captures the sound stream directly from Windows, before the audio goes to the sound card. This unique approach eliminates multiple conversions that occur with other types of solutions. The Total Recorder solution also eliminates the need for a "what-you-hear" type sound card.
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Total Recorder uses a virtual sound driver to capture the sound output from other programs like Real Audio and Windows Media Player. By installing the driver, and setting it as the default, different sound reproducing programs send their output stream to Total Recorder's driver and not to the driver of a real device. Total Recorder then passes the information to the sound card driver.
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This makes it _quite_ easy to rip sound clips from just about anything else that plays audio on a computer (or that can be fed into a microphone jack) and save them in the format of your choice. The program _is_ the analog hole in a nutshell with a decent interface.
Would I pay $79.95 for it? Probably not. That's why I'm glad that it's $11.95 for a standalone version with free updates; for twelve bucks, it's a worthwhile upgrade.