Total Recorder Audio Recording Software

The Total Recorder Solution

Total Recorder is a powerful, yet simple audio recording solution. Total Recorder records streaming audio directly from systems like Real Player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime and WinAmp. It can also record from cassette tapes, LPs, DVDs, CDs or through a microphone connected to your PC. The resulting recordings may be saved as wav, wma, mp3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files. The recordings may then be copied to a CD using a standard CD burner and associated software.

Total Recorder is available in Standard, Professional and Developer Editions. The Standard Edition has all of the recording functionality that allows users to record streaming audio or to record from cassettes, LPs, DVDs, CDs or through a microphone. It also has a built-in scheduler that allows for the scheduling of automated recordings.

The Standard Edition costs just $17.95 (USD). Most other recording packages cost more and deliver less. Additionally, all new program updates of Total Recorder are available to purchasers at no cost! Please review a history of upgrades on our News Page. During the last four years, 12 updates to Total Recorder have been released. You may also visit this page for a listing of independent reviews of Total Recorder.

Follow this link to download or purchase the Standard Edition for $17.95 USD.

The Professional Edition maintains all of the recording functionality of the Standard Edition, but also incorporates extensive features for editing audio files and enhanced scheduling features. Follow this link to download or purchase the Professional Edition for $35.95 USD.

The Developer Edition is available to programmers who can utilize an Active-X interface to all of the controls offered by the Professional Edition. Follow this link to download or purchase the Recorder Developer Edition for $99.95 USD.

Total Recorder Features (Standard and Pro Editions)

Features of Total Recorder found in both the Standard and the Professional Editions include:

• The ability to directly record sound played by other programs (e.g. RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, WinAmp) including live Internet broadcasts. This feature is unique to Total Recorder and is not available in the vast majority of other sound recording programs. Total Recorder does not depend on a "record-what-you-hear" type of sound card to implement this feature. Follow this link for more information.
• The ability to record from any sound card input line, including microphone, line-in, CD, and DVD. This feature allows recordings to be made from cassettes, LPs, CDs, your home stereo or an MD player. Follow this link for further details.
• A Scheduler for automatic recordings where Total Recorder will activate, record, save the recorded file.
• Convert almost any audio format to WAV format (plain or compressed), WMA, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC formats.

All of these features are available in both the Standard and the Professional Edition of Total Recorder.

Total Recorder Professional Edition Features

Total Recorder Professional Edition has many of the features usually associated with much more costly sound edition programs. With the Professional Edition, users may:

• Beginning with V6.1, users may make use of the Video Add-On to record, playback and edit AVI files.
• Use a Split facility that automatically breaks a large file into smaller files, based on selected criteria. The Split facility can be used to break up a single recording of a number of songs, into separate files for each song. It can also be used to automatically break a file into standard sized smaller files. See this link for more details.
• Delete a portion of a file, using precise markers and the Sound Image facility. The Sound Image facility provides the user with a visual representation of the levels of sound on the file. Follow this link for more details on the Sound Image feature.
• Insert a file into another or Copy and Paste a portion of an audio file to/from the Windows Clipboard.
• A mini-browser incorporated into the scheduler, that removes the requirement to leave your usual browser active and on the site that you wish to record. Use of the mini-browser allows users to browse and pre-select links they would like to record. At the scheduled time, Total Recorder Professional will activate the link and record the requested broadcast.
• A batch processing facility that allows you to process one or more files at the same time. You can use batch processing to change the format, apply fading effects, create or change tags, and other operations.
• Support for High Quality Audio formats including PCM formats (up to 192kHz 24bit and float mono and stereo), high-quality FLAC formats (up to 192kHz 24bit mono and stereo), high-quality Windows Media Audio Lossless stereo formats (up to 96kHz 24bit), and the stereo formats of Windows Media Audio Professional codec.

Additional Total Recorder Features

Audio File Format Support

During different operations, Total Recorder provides support for a number of various audio file formats. On most PCs, Total Recorder can capture and record any audio played, regardless of its original format. This includes streaming audio from Internet sources or any input source on the PC's sound card. The resulting audio files may be saved as wav (compressed or non-compressed), wma, mp3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC files.

Total Recorder can be used to directly convert files between wav, wma, ogg, mp3 or FLAC formats. It can also edit any of these file types and allows editing of mp3 and Ogg Vorbis tags. Total Recorder compresses the sound "on-the-fly" and unlike other programs, when editing a segment of a file, Total Recorder does not decompress and then re-compress the segment to be saved. Instead, the original compression is preserved.

See this link for more details on wma support.

See this link for more details on mp3 support.

See this link for more details on Ogg Vorbis support.

Command Line Features

Both the Standard and Professional Editions support a basic set of command line options. These command line options may be used with an external scheduler such as Microsoft's Task Scheduler. You may also launch Total Recorder from any script or program, making it a part of a completely automated recording system.

For commercial and sophisticated home users, the Developer Edition of Total Recorder allows full control of the Total Recorder program through the COM interface. This interface may be used to fully integrate Total Recorder with other applications.

Total Recorder Manual

To download and review a complete manual on Total Recorder in PDF format right click on the following link and select "Save Target As":

Total Recorder System Requirements

Total Recorder was designed to run on any PC using Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP operating systems. Total Recorder may work with other operating systems in the Windows family, but it has not been completely tested with these other systems. The only hardware requirement is that the PC be equipped with a Windows compatible sound card. The sound card may be a separate card, or it may be of the type that are integrated into the PC's motherboard.

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