wrote in news:2itje3pvc3g57h6dis94jrhlmj2dn1ocb0@
4ax.com:

What I like about digital music is it is very easy to go in and chop
out any particular song you want. I have an old copy of Sound Forge
that will let you do tricks with sound that would dazzle a recording
studio engineer 20 years ago.


You guys might want to look at "Total Recorder" from
www.totalrecorder.com

Total Recorder sits between whatever is playing and your soundcard, like
a proxy server. I can also simulate a soundcard to record in silence as
fast as the server will send it, much faster than X1 speed play. Total
Recorder will rip ANY audio from ANY source on the net, webpages,
Realaudio, WMP, any secure player, any sound input (digital or audio).

It's later versions have a neat intellegent recording function for those
late night recordings! Total Recorder now turns individual songs
DIRECTLY into MP3 separate files, complete with functions to strip off
the 2 second deadtime, etc. It will automatically rip like this from any
source, including very high speed conversions of your CD collection
direct to whatever speed MP3 compression you select. All you do is
change CDs. Works great with its own normalization, DC offset, a full
compander to level some awful recordings or streams. It also has a clock
so it can start recording that XM or internet stream and stop it as you
select. The scheduler has lots of modes and options.

TR is not free, but you get lifetime upgrades for a pittance....

To catalog/search/play/log your extensive MP3 collection, I recommend a
Russian program "MP3 Catalog Pro" from www.wizetech.com, the blazingly
fastest MP3 catalogger on the planet. It's not free either but is cheap.
It automatically creates a catalog of any and all MP3s on your system,
reading the IDx tags off all MP3s it finds for instant searching through
thousands of songs as fast as you can click. Drag the desired search
results to another folder to burn or Winamp's playlist to play works
great. Dragging to Nero burner also works flawlessly...in digital or CD
mode.

Just thought you'd like this information.....Sorry it won't switch XM
channels from its scheduler...(c; Maybe in the future if there's a
demand.

Larry
--

I will check it out. Thanks!

--Mike

"Larry" wrote in message
...
wrote in news:2itje3pvc3g57h6dis94jrhlmj2dn1ocb0@
4ax.com:

What I like about digital music is it is very easy to go in and chop
out any particular song you want. I have an old copy of Sound Forge
that will let you do tricks with sound that would dazzle a recording
studio engineer 20 years ago.


You guys might want to look at "Total Recorder" from
www.totalrecorder.com

Total Recorder sits between whatever is playing and your soundcard, like
a proxy server. I can also simulate a soundcard to record in silence as
fast as the server will send it, much faster than X1 speed play. Total
Recorder will rip ANY audio from ANY source on the net, webpages,
Realaudio, WMP, any secure player, any sound input (digital or audio).

It's later versions have a neat intellegent recording function for those
late night recordings! Total Recorder now turns individual songs
DIRECTLY into MP3 separate files, complete with functions to strip off
the 2 second deadtime, etc. It will automatically rip like this from any
source, including very high speed conversions of your CD collection
direct to whatever speed MP3 compression you select. All you do is
change CDs. Works great with its own normalization, DC offset, a full
compander to level some awful recordings or streams. It also has a clock
so it can start recording that XM or internet stream and stop it as you
select. The scheduler has lots of modes and options.

TR is not free, but you get lifetime upgrades for a pittance....

To catalog/search/play/log your extensive MP3 collection, I recommend a
Russian program "MP3 Catalog Pro" from www.wizetech.com, the blazingly
fastest MP3 catalogger on the planet. It's not free either but is cheap.
It automatically creates a catalog of any and all MP3s on your system,
reading the IDx tags off all MP3s it finds for instant searching through
thousands of songs as fast as you can click. Drag the desired search
results to another folder to burn or Winamp's playlist to play works
great. Dragging to Nero burner also works flawlessly...in digital or CD
mode.

Just thought you'd like this information.....Sorry it won't switch XM
channels from its scheduler...(c; Maybe in the future if there's a
demand.

Larry
--

"Mike" wrote in news:juHGi.9460$924.3035
@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

I will check it out. Thanks!

--Mike



Quite welcome. I've been using TR for many years.



Larry
--
Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......

That is what I am using to record from XM

I'll may start doing that as well. I use Media Center 2005 and record it
that way. However, it gets recorded as a video. Then I strip the audio out
of the video as an MP3. Looks like Total Recorder will eliminate the second
step.

--Mike

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:11:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

You guys might want to look at "Total Recorder" from
www.totalrecorder.com


That is what I am using to record from XM

"Mike" wrote in
:

I'll may start doing that as well. I use Media Center 2005 and record
it that way. However, it gets recorded as a video. Then I strip the
audio out of the video as an MP3. Looks like Total Recorder will
eliminate the second step.


The best thing about TR as the storage device is its uncanny ability to
make SEPARATE files of each song, instead of making one HUGE MP3 file you
cannot search or randomize play in. It's awful boring always having to
listen to the same music at the beginning of that huge MP3 file or having
to sit there and scroll through 2 hours of music to have something new to
listen to nearer the end of it. TR solves that making separate files out
of it. It even works on BBC radio off the net on its web-based locked up
player. I carry a lot of BBC programs in my car on the little MP3
player...instead of listening to the constant barrage of America's
commercials on the radio....or paying someone NOT to play them, like XM.

Larry
--
BBC kindly, gently, declined my offer to pay my "radio tax". I'm still
working on them trying to get a SUBSCRIPTION service going to fully
stream BBC's HOME TV channels to me over the net. The News is all you
get now for free. I want them to stream those great BBC TV shows I
watched in England. I'll gladly pay for such fine programming in
realtime.