                             README

             Total Recorder Standard Edition Version 4.2
             Copyright (C) 1998-2003 High Criteria, Inc.
                       All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

  Overview
    - Standard Edition Introduction
    - What's New with Version 4.2?
    - System Requirements
    - Program Restrictions
  Installing and Configuring
    - Package Content
    - Specific Information for Windows NT
    - Specific Information for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
    - Installation Steps
    - Adding Support for Ogg Vorbis Format to Total Recorder  
    - Configuring Total Recorder
  Registering Total Recorder
  Uninstalling Total Recorder
  Technical Support


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                               OVERVIEW
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STANDARD EDITION INTRODUCTION
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Total Recorder is a sound recording and playing program. It records
analog sound digitized by a sound card, as well as sound generated,
or requested, by other computer programs, such as RealPlayer, Windows
Media Player, Quick Time, WinAmp, and many others. Recorded sound is
saved in wave-file format or you can use external programs to save
recorded sound in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format.

For example, you can use Total Recorder to record:
- audio from the Internet, either audio files or live streams
- music from a game program
- a conversation, if you use an Internet telephony program.

Total Recorder uses a virtual sound driver to capture the sound output
from another program. By installing this driver, and setting this
device 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.

Total Recorder has a built-in scheduler. This allows you to
automatically record a show at a given time for later playback or you
can use the scheduler as an alarm. Note that this latter function does
not require registration.

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WHAT'S NEW WITH VERSION 4.2?
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In addition to maintenance, Version 4.2 includes the following changes:
- Support for VBR (Variable Bit Rate) MP3 format.
- Ability to repair MP3 files.
- Generation of file names for "Save ... as" operations based on 
  file/recording tags.
- Additional options for setting file/recording tags.
- Enhanced "Jump to time" feature.
- Ability to sort scheduled jobs by starting date and time.
- Total Recorder can run with some restricted functions to allow better
  compatibility with other programs.
- Other minor enhancements. 

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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To use Total Recorder, you need the following:
   - an IBM compatible computer
   - a sound card
   - Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME (Millennium Edition), or 2000, or
     Windows NT 4.0 or Windows XP.

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PROGRAM RESTRICTIONS
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Total Recorder cannot record sound reproduced by DOS programs
executing in DOS sessions.

Total Recorder can record only one output and one input sound stream at
a time. If a sound card allows simultaneous output of several
wave-streams and can mix these streams itself, then Total Recorder can
only record one of these streams.

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                        INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING
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PACKAGE CONTENT
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Total Recorder is shipped via the Internet, as a self-extracting
(tr42se.exe) or regular (tr42se.zip) archive, and consists of the
files listed below. The following table indicates each file name, a
description, and the environments in which each file is required.

File                Description       Required on       Required on
----                -----------       Windows 95/98/Me  Windows 2000/NT 4/XP
TotalRecorder.exe - Total Recorder program     Yes        Yes
TotRecSched.exe   - scheduler program          No         Yes
DrvTR95M.drv      - device driver              Yes        No
DrvTRNTM.dll      - device driver              No         Yes
DrvTR95L.dll      - device driver library      Yes        No
DrvTRNTL.dll      - device driver library      No         Yes
DrvTR95.vxd       - virtual device driver      Yes        No
DrvTR95.inf       - driver installation file   Yes        No
OEMSETUP.inf      - driver installation file   No         Yes
TotalRecorder.hlp - help file                  Yes        Yes
TotalRecorder.cnt - help content file          Yes        Yes
Setup.exe         - Install/uninstall program  Yes        Yes
DrInst.exe        - driver install/uninstall   Yes        No
                    program
License.txt       - License agreement file     Yes        Yes
Readme.txt        - Read-me first file         Yes        Yes
Registration.txt  - Registration form          Yes        Yes

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SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS NT
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To install Total Recorder on Windows NT, you need the "Load and Unload
Device Drivers" user right. Normally, only administrative users have
this right.

To use the Total Recorder program, you do not need any special rights.
However, the Total Recorder setup program changes settings only for the
user who installed the program. Any other user must manual set the
Total Recorder driver as a preferred device (see
"Installing/Uninstalling the Total Recorder Driver Manually").

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SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 2000 and WINDOWS XP
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Windows 2000 and Windows XP are members of the Windows NT product family.
All of the information in the previous section ("Installing Total Recorder
in a Windows NT Environment") applies to Windows 2000 and to Windows XP.

If you are planning to upgrade your Windows 95/98/ME system to Windows
2000 or Windows XP, you must take the following steps:
1. Before upgrading your Windows environment, uninstall Total Recorder.
2. After the upgrade is complete, reinstall Total Recorder.
3. Re-register Total Recorder. You should have your registration 
   information available.

Note: Total Recorder will not work if you simply upgrade your Windows
environment to Windows 2000 or XP without taking the steps described above.

If you are moving from NT to either Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you do
not have to remove and re-install Total Recorder.

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INSTALLATION NOTES
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Note that Version 4.2 cannot coexist on the same machine with any 
previous version (1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.0 or 4.1). 
The different editions (Standard Edition, Professional Edition and 
Developer Edition) of Total Recorder cannot be installed on the same 
computer.

Follow this procedure to install Total Recorder on your PC:

1. Download the self-extracting archive tr42se.exe
   (http://www.highcriteria.com/download/tr42se.exe) and run it.

   or

   Download the regular ZIP archive tr42se.zip
   (http://www.highcriteria.com/download/tr42se.zip). Unzip it and
   run Setup.exe.  Note that you must unzip the entire archive not
   just the Setup.exe file.

   If you have a previous version installed, you are prompted to
   uninstall it. Press "OK" to continue with the installation. Press
   "Cancel" if you want to exit the installation program without
   installing the software.

   The installation program creates a directory for Total Recorder,
   copies all of the files to that directory, creates a Program Group
   called Total Recorder, installs a driver, and sets it as the default
   device for both playback and recording.

2. After installing Total Recorder, you must restart Windows.

Tip:
Create a shortcut to Total Recorder and place it on your desktop. This
gives you single-click access to Total Recorder.

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ADDING SUPPORT FOR OGG VORBIS FORMAT TO TOTAL RECORDER  
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Total Recorder supports the Ogg Vorbis format by using an external 
dynamic link library named vorbishc.dll. You can obtain this library,  
free of charge, through High Criteria's web site. To add support for  
Ogg Vorbis to Total Recorder, or to review new versions of vorbishc.dll,  
go to http://www.highcriteria.com/tr_ext_res.htm and follow the 
instructions.

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CONFIGURING TOTAL RECORDER
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The configuration program allows you to set the following:
- suppression of system sounds
- preferred playback and recording devices
- priority of Total Recorder program
- restrictions for Total Recorder's functionality
- directory for temporary files
- default directory
- method for assigning default file names for "Save ... as" operations
- action for making a new recording over a previous one
- resampling algorithm
- external programs for MP3 encoding
- default format (RIFF-WAVE or MP3) and ID3 tag for MP3 files
- default tags for Ogg Vorbis files
- pre-recording parameters
- debug mode parameters.

To configure Total Recorder
1. Start the Total Recorder program.
2. Either select "Options"- "Settings" or click the appropriate
   button on the Main toolbar. You are presented with a dialog box 
   with the following tabs:
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      Tab               Use this tab to set options for...
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  System           System sounds, audio playback and recording devices, 
                   preferred audio devices when Total Recorder isn't 
                   active, priority of Total Recorder program,
                   restrictions for Total Recorder's functionality

  Open/save        Folder for temporary files, default Open/SaveAs 
                   folder, assigning default file names for "Save ... as" 
                   operations, action for making new recording over 
                   previous one

  Algorithm        Frequency conversion algorithm

  MP3              Program for encoding to MP3, header format, 
                   ID3 tags

  Ogg Vorbis       Default tag for Ogg Vorbis files

  Pre-recording    Number of seconds to pre-record, activate 
                   pre-recording mode

  Debug            Driver debug info, internal debug info.
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                   REGISTERING TOTAL RECORDER
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After installing and verifying the program works properly, you should
obtain a registration key from High Criteria. If the program is
unregistered then your recordings are limited to 40 seconds each and
you can use the scheduler only as an alarm.

Notes: 

1. Different editions of Total Recorder have different registration 
keys. For example, you cannot use the registration key for Total 
Recorder Standard Edition in either Total Recorder Professional Edition 
or in Total Recorder Developer Edition.

2.You cannot use your Version 1.x or 2.x registration key with
Version 4.2. The registration key for Version 3.0 and later is valid 
for Version 4.2.

To register Total Recorder:

1. Receive the registration key.

   For registered users of versions 1.0 or 2.x.
   All registered users are entitled to a free registration key. It
   is sent automatically by E-mail unless you specified that you do
   not want to receive E-mails from High Criteria or you have not
   provided your E-mail address. If you are a registered user wishing
   to upgrade, and you did not get your registration key,
   link to http://hcserv1.highcriteria.com/scripts/getkey/getkey.asp
   to use the High Criteria self service registration key system.

   OR

   For new users.
   Follow the instructions given on High Criteria Inc.'s web site at
   the following address: http://www.highcriteria.com/products.htm.

   To order by check, refer to the Registration.txt file in the 
   installation folder of Total Recorder.

2. Select "Help" - "Registration". Type in the same name you used to
   obtain the registration key and type your registration key. Note 
   that after registration this menu item is not accessible.

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                        UNINSTALLING TOTAL RECORDER
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To uninstall Total Recorder, use "Start", "Settings", "Control Panel",
"Add/Remove Programs". The program remains in memory until you reboot.

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                             TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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If you experience problems with Total Recorder that you cannot resolve
yourself, visit support area on our Web site:
- http://www.highcriteria.com/faq_tr.htm  - Frequently Asked Questions
- http://www.highcriteria.com/support.htm - Support Area
