High Criteria Inc. Announces the Immediate Availability of Total Recorder Professional Edition, Total Recorder Standard Edition and Total Recorder Developer Edition, Versions 5.1.

February 14, 2005, Toronto, Canada

High Criteria Inc, a world leader in computer audio recording systems, today announced the immediate availability of new versions of its flagship product, Total Recorder. The Standard Edition, Professional Edition and the Developer Edition have all been upgraded to Version 5.1.

In addition to other standard maintenance, Total Recorder V5.1 offers a number of new features including:

• Customization of the user interface lets you show Total Recorder in the System Tray, use Always on Top mode, and set up different views (Compact, Full, or Customized).
• Global hotkeys can be set up and used for various functions within Total Recorder regardless of whether it is running in the background, the foreground, or it is minimized and Multimedia keyboard keys can be used for global hotkeys and shortcuts.
• A drag-and-drop feature lets you open a sound file by dragging the file from Windows Explorer and dropping it onto Total Recorder’s main window.
• Presets can be used to store settings for your recording source and parameters. This allows you to quickly set the recording source and parameters as required.
• Total Recorder's scheduler is redesigned. The “Schedule item” dialog has been split into multiple tabs.

Both the Professional Edition and Developer Edition V5.1 have been enhanced with the following new features:

• Ability to display and work with a sound image in a separate window. For example, you can change the size and scale of a sound image.
• During a scheduled job, Total Recorder can automatically reconnect to an Internet transmission or restart a program when problems arise, such as the failure of a connection.
• A scheduled recording can be muted. This is useful when a recording is scheduled in the middle of the night and you do not want to be disturbed.
• Generation rules can be used for some file tag fields, such as the Comment field.

All Total Recorder V5.1 Editions are immediately available and may be downloaded for evaluation and purchase from the High Criteria Web Site at www.highcriteria.com. The evaluation versions of the programs will record for unlimited lengths of time, but will add an audible noise about every 60 seconds.

V5.1 Standard Edition is available now for $11.95 U.S., V5.1 Professional Edition is available now for $35.95 U.S. and V5.1 Developer Edition is available for $99.95 U.S. All versions are available, free of charge, to previous purchasers.

Registration key formats were last changed in the following releases of Total Recorder:

• Standard Edition - version 5.0
• Professional Edition - V4.0
• Developer Edition - V4.1

New registration keys may be obtained by using the self-service registration key management system. This system uses the email address under which the product was originally purchased. If this email address is no longer valid, then users requiring a new key must email High Criteria at support@highcriteria.com. Users should specify their registration name and E-mail address from the time of registering and their new E-mail address.

For a limited time, registered users of Total Recorder Standard Edition may upgrade to the Professional Edition for an upgrade fee of $24.00 U.S. Please follow this link for further details.

For a limited time, registered users of Total Recorder Professional Edition may upgrade to the Developer Edition for an upgrade fee of $64.00 U.S.