Recording your music
You can record a section of music by using the Record, Stop, and Pause buttons to control the recording. By default, Analog Recorder records music for up to two hours. You can use advanced recording options to turn off the automatic detection and splitting of tracks, to change the maximum recording time, and to identify the total available recording time based on the amount of free disk space on your computer.
After you record your music and click Next to go to the next page, Analog Recorder attempts to detect the individual tracks within the section of music based on the pauses between tracks. If Analog Recorder detects multiple tracks, it automatically splits them for you. Analog Recorder also removes any long pauses at the beginning and end of tracks.
To record your music
- To start a recording, click the Record button
, and then immediately begin playing the music on your analog audio device.
The length of the current recording is displayed in Elapsed time.
- While Analog Recorder records your music, you can choose from the following options:
- To change the playback volume, move the Volume slider
left to decrease or right to increase the volume level. Changing the listening volume does not affect the volume of the recording.
- To pause the recording at any time, click the Pause button
. When you click the Record button again, Analog Recorder resumes at the end of the current recording.
- To end the current recording, click the Stop button
.
- To set advanced recording options, including the maximum recording time and the automatic detection and splitting of tracks, click Advanced. For more information about using the advanced recording options, see Setting advanced recording options.
The option to automatically detect and split tracks is turned on by default. You may want to turn off this option if you are recording a book on tape or other audio content that includes significant periods of silence which Analog Recorder will split into individual tracks.
- After you finish recording your music, click Next.
If the option to automatically detect and split tracks is on, Analog Recorder uses the pauses or silence in the music to automatically split each recording into individual tracks, if possible. In some cases, Analog Recorder may detect periods of silence within a single track and inadvertently split it, or it may not detect silence between multiple tracks and may not split them. If either of these situations occurs, you can combine or split the tracks manually on the next page.
If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.
Notes
- To delete all the music you have recorded, click Reset.
- Analog Recorder levels the volume for the recordings so that all of your music has the same apparent volume.
- If your computer runs out of free disk space while you are recording music, Analog Recorder stops the recording and displays a message. You must delete some unneeded files on your computer to provide additional disk space for your music.
- If Analog Recorder is unable to detect the individual tracks within the section of music, verify that you have turned off any options on your analog audio device that could create additional recording noise. For example, if your cassette player has a Metal option, you may want to turn it off.
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