                             README

             Total Recorder Professional Edition Version 5.3
             Copyright (C) 1998-2005 High Criteria, Inc.
                       All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

  Overview
    - Professional Edition Introduction
    - What's New with Version 5.3?
    - System Requirements
    - Program Restrictions
  Installation
    - Package Content
    - Specific Information for Windows NT
    - Specific Information for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
    - Installation Steps
    - Adding Support for Ogg Vorbis Format to Total Recorder  
    - Adding Support for Windows Media Audio Format to Total Recorder
    - Total Recorder Add-ons
  Registering Total Recorder
  Uninstalling Total Recorder
  Technical Support


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                               OVERVIEW
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PROFESSIONAL EDITION INTRODUCTION
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Total Recorder is a sound recording, processing, and playing program.
It records analog sound digitized by a sound card, as well as sound
generated, or requested, by other computer programs, such as
RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, WinAmp, and many others.
Recorded sound can be saved in RIFF-WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media
Audio, or FLAC file format.

After sound has been recorded, you can edit sound files and perform
other sound processing operations.  You can also use Total Recorder to
convert sound files to different sound formats. Total Recorder, for
example, can be used to record the following:
-    audio from the Internet, either audio files or live streams
-    music from a game program
-    a conversation, if you use an Internet telephony program.
-    sound from a microphone, a line-in, or other input lines for your
     soundboard.

Total Recorder uses a virtual sound driver to capture the sound output
from another program. By installing this driver, and setting this
device as the default, different sound reproducing programs send their
output stream to Total Recorder's driver and not to the driver of a
real device. Total Recorder then passes the information to the sound
card driver.

Total Recorder has a built-in scheduler. This allows you to
automatically record a show at a given time for later playback or you
can use the scheduler as an alarm.

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WHAT'S NEW WITH VERSION 5.3?
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In addition to maintenance, Version 5.3 includes the following changes:

- Ability to restore Total Recorder's default configuration and
  recording parameters.
- The real speed of accelerated recording is now displayed.
- High quality formats are now supported. This includes high-quality 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.
- You can use the new free-of-charge Digital Mixer Add-on. This add-on
  allows you to mix a recording with another file or the contents of the
  Clipboard, record in mix-over mode (to add comments, for example),
  perform mixed software and sound board recording, and to save mixed
  sound streams separately.
- File name generation rules can now include the week number, job
  comments, or the day-of-week name.
- A new plug-in for capturing clip information from Windows Media Player
  is available, and has advantages over the older visualization plug-in.
  The plug-in can capture clip information while the Windows Media Player
  window is not in a normal state (e.g. playing video clips in full screen
  mode).
- The Sound image window has been improved with additional controls,
  buttons, and displays.
- Other minor enhancements.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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To use Total Recorder, you need the following:
   - an IBM PC compatible computer
   - a sound card
   - Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME (Millennium Edition), or 2000, or
     Windows NT 4.0 or Windows XP.

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PROGRAM RESTRICTIONS
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Total Recorder cannot record sound reproduced by DOS programs
executing in DOS sessions.

Total Recorder can record only one output and one input sound stream at
a time. If a sound card allows simultaneous output of several
wave-streams and can mix these streams itself, then Total Recorder can
only record one of these streams.

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                        INSTALLATION
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PACKAGE CONTENT
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Total Recorder is shipped via the Internet, as a self-extracting (exe)
or regular (zip) archive, and consists of the files listed below. The
following table indicates each file name, a description, and the
environments in which each file is required.

File                Description       Required on       Required on
----                -----------       Windows 95/98/Me  Windows 2000/NT 4/XP
TotalRecorder.exe - Total Recorder program     Yes        Yes
TotRecSched.exe   - scheduler program          Yes        Yes
DrvTR95M.drv      - device driver              Yes        No
DrvTRNTM.dll      - device driver              No         Yes
DrvTR95L.dll      - device driver library      Yes        No
DrvTRNTL.dll      - device driver library      No         Yes
DrvTR95.vxd       - virtual device driver      Yes        No
DrvTR95.inf       - driver installation file   Yes        No
OEMSETUP.inf      - driver installation file   No         Yes
TotalRecorder.hlp - help file                  Yes        Yes
TotalRecorder.cnt - help content file          Yes        Yes
Setup.exe         - Install/uninstall program  Yes        Yes
DrInst.exe        - driver install/uninstall   Yes        No
                    program
License.txt       - License agreement file     Yes        Yes
Readme.txt        - Read-me first file         Yes        Yes
Registration.txt  - Registration form          Yes        Yes
players.txt       - templates for players to 
                    retrieve clip info         Yes        Yes
WmpClipInfoForTrVis.dll
                  - WMP 7.1-10.x visualization
                    plug-in for 
                    retrieving clip info       Yes        Yes
WmpClipInfoForTrBkgr.dll
                  - WMP 9.0-10.x background
                    plug-in for 
                    retrieving clip info       Yes        Yes

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SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS NT
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To install Total Recorder on Windows NT, you need the "Load and Unload
Device Drivers" user right. Normally, only administrative users have
this right.

To use the Total Recorder program, you do not need any special rights.
However, the Total Recorder setup program changes settings only for the
user who installed the program. Any other user must manual set the
Total Recorder driver as a preferred device (see
"Setting Preferred Devices").

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SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 2000 and WINDOWS XP
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Windows 2000 and Windows XP are members of the Windows NT product
family. All of the information in the previous section ("Installing
Total Recorder in a Windows NT Environment") applies to Windows 2000
and to Windows XP.

If you are planning to upgrade your Windows 95/98/ME system to Windows
2000 or Windows XP, you must take the following steps:
1. Before upgrading your Windows environment, uninstall Total Recorder.
2. After the upgrade is complete, reinstall Total Recorder.
3. Re-register Total Recorder. You should have your registration 
   information available.

Note: Total Recorder will not work if you simply upgrade your Windows
environment to Windows 2000 or XP without taking the steps described
above.

If you are moving from NT to either Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you do
not have to remove and re-install Total Recorder.

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INSTALLATION NOTES
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Version 5.3 cannot coexist on the same machine with any previous
version of Total Recorder. The different Total Recorder editions
(Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Developer Edition) cannot
be installed on the same computer.

Take the following steps to install Total Recorder on your PC:

1.  Download the self-extracting (exe) or regular (zip) archive from
    Total Recorder download page:
    http://www.highcriteria.com/productfr_trPRO.htm

2.  Run the installation program:

    - If you downloaded the self-extracting archive, simply run it.

    - If you downloaded the regular archive, unzip it and run Setup.exe.
    Note that you must unzip the entire archive and not just the
    Setup.exe file.

    If you have a previous version installed, you are prompted to
    uninstall it. Press "OK" to continue with the installation. Press
    "Cancel" if you want to exit the installation program without
    installing the software. The installation program creates a
    directory for Total Recorder, copies all of the files to that
    directory, creates a Program Group called Total Recorder, installs
    a driver, and sets it as the default device for both playback and
    recording.

3.  After installing Total Recorder, you must restart Windows.

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ADDING SUPPORT FOR OGG VORBIS FORMAT TO TOTAL RECORDER  
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Total Recorder supports the Ogg Vorbis format by using an external
dynamic link library named vorbishc.dll. You can obtain this library,
free of charge, through High Criteria's web site. To add support for
Ogg Vorbis to Total Recorder, or to review new versions of
vorbishc.dll,  go to http://www.highcriteria.com/tr_ext_ogg.htm and
follow the instructions.

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ADDING SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO FORMAT TO TOTAL RECORDER
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For Total Recorder to support Windows Media Audio formats, you should 
either:
- install Windows Media Player 9 series (or later), or
- download and install a special redistribution kit. You can obtain
this kit free of charge through High Criteria's web site
(http://www.highcriteria.com/tr_ext_wma.htm).

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TOTAL RECORDER ADD-ONS
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Total Recorder supports add-on programs. These add-ons can be used to
process a sound stream or to monitor some sound characteristics. The
features provided by the add-on depend upon the particular add-on. To
learn more about add-ons, refer to the add-on's help file and add-on
home page (http://www.highcriteria.com/AddOnMain.htm).

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                        REGISTERING TOTAL RECORDER
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After installing and verifying the program works properly, you should
obtain a registration key from High Criteria.
If the program is unregistered:
- A short portion of noise is inserted into recorded sound about every
one minute.
- You cannot process more than three files during batch processing.

Note: 

Different editions of Total Recorder have different registration keys.
For example, you cannot use the registration key for Total Recorder
Standard Edition in either Total Recorder Professional Edition or in
Total Recorder Developer Edition.

To register Total Recorder Professional Edition:

1. Receive the registration key.

   Follow the instructions given on High Criteria Inc.'s web site at
   the following address: http://www.highcriteria.com/products.htm.

2. Select "Help" - "Registration". Type in the same name you used to
   obtain the registration key and type your registration key. Note 
   that after registration this menu item is not accessible.

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                        UNINSTALLING TOTAL RECORDER
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To uninstall Total Recorder, use "Start", "Settings", "Control Panel",
"Add/Remove Programs". The program remains in memory until you reboot.

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                             TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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If you experience problems with Total Recorder that you cannot resolve
yourself, visit support area on our Web site:
- http://www.highcriteria.com/faq_tr.htm  - Frequently Asked Questions
- http://www.highcriteria.com/support.htm - Support Area
