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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: KingSparta on May 23, 2006, 07:15:22 pm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An alternative would be to burn the track as an audio CD with iTunes and then rip in wave format with MC.
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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.
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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.
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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 (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) 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 (http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp), so I just use that.
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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.
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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