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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

  1. To start a recording, click the Record button 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.

  2. While Analog Recorder records your music, you can choose from the following options:
  3. To end the current recording, click the Stop button Stop button .
  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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