OK John, you've succeeded in the whack-me-over-the-head part, now let's get on to the tell-me-about-it part (LOL).
If you set the recording option in TR to Software, it load Winamp, which actually plays the stream in question right through your sound card. The audio is captured from the sound card, not from the stream packets themselves. I know this is true by two proofs. 1. If you use Winamp's down- and up-arrow volume buttons while recording a stream in Total Recorder, when you play the stream back that you just recorded while manipulating those buttons, the volume of the stream will, in fact, go down, then up again. 2. If you record a short stream with WGet (or, in my case, WinWGet, because I like wrappers), and then compare that recording with another short stream from the same source using TR+Winamp methodology, if your ears are good, which mine are not but I've been told this by more than one person with far, far better ears than my broken ones, you'll notice that the TR+Winamp version of the recorded stream has artifacts that the WGet stream does not. I suspect these artifacts are from digital audio being converted to analog, played through the sound card, then re-encoded by TR. Like I said, personally I cannot hear these artifacts any more, but I believe they are there and I believe the reason for their existence is as explained. If TR has a way of getting around this, I'd dearly love to know how it's done. That would make my weekly captures of various radio programs sound so-o much better. On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:03:17 -0400, you wrote: >Yep, it does work exactly that way -- I don't know what you were looking >at. > >Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote: > >> I think it definitely should be brought to their attention. Any job in >> the queue should have the ability to be run on demand and stopped >> either on a schedule or, again, on demand. That's one of the beauties >> of WinWGet. Except WinWGet isn't as fancy as TR in that there's no >> scheduling function, and, to be honest, since WinWGet doesn't use >> external programs to connect to and capture the stream, it actually >> make a better, purer, recording because it just captures the raw >> packets from the stream, doesn't re-encode anything another program is >> playing. I sure wish TR worked this way, and if it doesn, somebody >> needs to whack me over the head and tell me about it. >> >> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:57:03 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >Hi. >> >No, I don't think there is a way to test the scheduled job. Perhaps it's >> >a suggestion we ought to bring to High Criteria's attention. >> >What do you think? >> >Chat soon. >> > >> > >> >Chris Hallsworth >> >Sent from Thunderbird >> > >> >On 11/06/2011 15:13, Steve Matzura wrote: >> >> Hi, Chris: >> >> >> >> Do you know of a way to "test", and I put that word in quotes, a job >> >> that has been set up in the scheduler to make sure the URL is right >> >> and the bit-rate and file settings are all good before the job is let >> >> loose to do what it's supposed to do? I've never found a force-run or >> >> force-start option in TR. Is there such a thing? >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:48:14 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hello all. >> >>> Here are two links to my tutorial on Total Recorder. >> >>> Part 1. >> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1625623/Total_Recorder_Podcast.mp3 >> >>> Part 2. >> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1625623/Total_Recorder_Podcast_Part_2.mp3 >> >>> Hope this helps. >> >>> Take care. >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> > >> >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
