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[KingSparta]

I downloaded the demo of total recorder

and i bought a music file from itunes

Listening to: 'Like Her' from 'Solace' by 'Mandalay' on Media Center 11

It is a m4p file

since there is no tools in MC to convert this file to something work able like wav or mp3

when i load total recorder, then press play on MC11 there is no sound.

if i press play on MC11 and then load up total recorder and press record it works fine

any ideas how to fix that?

since i have the demo of total recorder i get embeded noise (there way to make someone pay for it).

is there another product that is freeware that a user can use to record and convert.

what i want to do is take this song cut out the parts i hate and keep the parts i like.

[KingSparta]

Ok

Well I found Easy Hi-Q Recorder It works better, Perfect actually

http://www.roemersoftware.com/

And then i used Media Centers Media Editor And I Cut The Ofending Parts Out.

Media Center Media Editor worked very well cutting out parts when you zoom in on the wave, Not to bad of a job you can almost not hear where it was cut maybe some more blending.

I did buy it $29.95

I kind of wish J river would work on the media editor a bit, i would pay a bit extra for more and better editor tools.

[shortie]

I've been using Total Recorder for years (literally).  Matter of fact, I think I may've bought it around the time I bought my first copy of MC (8.something, I think).  I don't know much about Easy Hi-Q but Total Recorder has been a great product for me.  The interface always throws me a little if it's been a while since I used it last but it installs a sound driver and grabs the sound at the driver level as opposed to doing any conversion, giving the same quality as the decoder. Dunno if Easy Hi-Q does the same but I'll give it a try.

I admit that I've never tried it with MC so I guess I'll have to give your sequence a try and, if it fails for me, I'll contact them with a bug report.

[Alex B]

An alternative would be to burn the track as an audio CD with iTunes and then rip in wave format with MC.

[KingSparta]

I don't know much about Easy Hi-Q but Total Recorder has been a great product for me.

I found when looking It has won more awards, and better reviews than total recorder has received.

[chaznet]

I've found that if you install Total Recorder without it's special audio driver (an option during install), it works much better in general -- I've run into a lot of glitches when the TR audio drivers are installed.

[glynor]

I kind of wish J river would work on the media editor a bit, i would pay a bit extra for more and better editor tools.

Audacity is free, cross-platform, and works quite well for most simple audio editing tasks.  I use it extensively on my Macs at work.  At home on my Windows boxes, I own a copy of SoundForge 7, so I just use that.

[shortie]

KingSparta: I'll definitely check out Easy Hi-Q.  Thanks for the pointer!

chaznet: I may be in the minority but I've never had a problem with the TR drivers.  Sometimes I forget that they're there and direct audio around them instead of through them but it's always been an error on my part.

[KingSparta]

I also sent a request for help on for total recorder and no reply from them so support is rather lacking.

with Easy Hi-Q i got a reply so that will go into my review of both of them