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October 13, 1999.
Audiograbber 1.60 has several improvements plus one completely new
function: soundcard line in sampling for recordings of vinyl or radio.
First, the minor improvements:
It is now possible to rip all tracks
first and encode them afterwards. Useful if you have only temporary
access to the disc.
Audiograbber can now append all
ID3 info, final trackname and destination, to the wav files. If
they later are dropped on Audiograbber and encoded they will end
up in the correct directory with correct names and ID3 tags. That's
useful for people with large hard disks that rip many discs and
encode them en masse overnight.
It is now easier to rip parts of
tracks. Audiograbber can, for example, rip 30 seconds from every
track starting one minute into the songs with a fade in/out, -these
values are adjustable. This feature would be useful in producing
sample audio clips from discs.
And now .. over to the big news!
Here's a picture of the Line in sampling function:
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Easy enough to understand, I think.Just hook up your stereo or radio to your PC's soundcard and start testing.
Auto split: This feature attempts to locate the beginning
and end of selections based on detected periods of silence, such
as the pause separating songs on vinyl records. The track split
sensitivity meter can adjusted, i.e., set lower to require longer
periods of silence for Audiograbber to believe the track is over.
It works pretty well, but can, of course, fail sometimes. De-selecting
auto split enables you to "manually" press the Audiograbber Record/stop
button for each song.
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The time scheduled tab. The
time scheduled mode is useful for recording from radio when you
are absent from your PC. Works like a VCR timer, but for radio
(or TV sound or whatever sound source is connected to your soundcard).
Example: You enjoy a morning radio program, but don't like getting
up that early. Simply set the correct start time for the radio
show and make sure the radio is turned on. Leave the PC on with
Audiograbber running in time scheduled mode. When you wake up,
you'll have the radio show recorded as an MP3 or WMA file (or
wav, if you prefer that).
The start times are quite flexible. You can omit a start date
to record everyday at that time, or select a weekday like "Tuesday",
or specify a date.
Registered users can upgrade to the new Audiograbber 1.60 on the
full version page. The free
versions is available on the download page.
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