                             README

             Total Recorder Developer Edition Version 7.0
            Copyright (C) 1998-2008 High Criteria, Inc.
                      All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

  Overview
    - Developer Edition Introduction
    - Total Recorder Features
    - What's New with Version 7.0?
    - System Requirements
  Installation
    - Installation Steps
    - Adding Support of 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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DEVELOPER EDITION INTRODUCTION
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Total Recorder Developer Edition is a version of Total Recorder that
can be controlled by an external application using OLE Automation. The
OLE interface allows for the integration of Total Recorder's recording
facilities with larger applications.

The Total Recorder Developer Edition Guide to Automation Support is
provided in the Automation subfolder of the Total Recorder program
directory. It describes all the objects, properties, methods and events
that Total Recorder Developer Edition exposes.

Other than the OLE interface, the Developer Edition contains the same
feature set as the Professional Edition. It is not necessary to
purchase or use the Developer Edition unless you intend to write an
application, using a programming language (e.g. C/C++, VB, Java) or a
Scripting language (e.g. VB Script or Java Script), to interface with
Total Recorder.

The Developer Edition License Agreement does not, in any way, permit
the transfer of licensed rights for, or the re-distribution,
re-selling,  or re-marketing of the Total Recorder Developer Edition
product. Users of third party applications that interface with Total
Recorder Developer Edition must purchase a Total Recorder Developer
Edition registration.

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.

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TOTAL RECORDER FEATURES
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Total Recorder is a powerful tool for recording, processing,
converting, and playing sound. Total Recorder supports RIFF-WAV
(including High Quality PCM), MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio,
and FLAC formats.

With Total Recorder, you can do the following:

- Record sound reproduced by other programs, such as RealPlayer,
  Windows Media Player, iTunes, Musicmatch Jukebox, WinAmp, and many
  others, including Internet telephony programs. The reproduced sound
  can be either sound from local files being played back or sound from
  Internet transmissions. These recordings are performed without the
  need for special lines for your sound board and without a loss of
  quality due to redundant conversions from digital to analog to
  digital. While recording Internet-telephony conversations, recording
  of both parties is possible. These features are provided by Total
  Recorder's virtual driver.
- Record from a microphone, a line-in, or another input line for your
  soundboard.
- Capture (background record) and play back Internet broadcasts in MP3,
  WMA, and Ogg Vorbis formats directly without decoding or re-encoding.
- Use the unique time-shift feature, which lets you listen during the
  recording or background recording of an Internet broadcast.
- Split sound data on separate clips during a recording and tag the
  clips automatically.
- Split sound data to separate files during a recording based on
  various criteria (e.g. size, duration, and others).
- Work with cue-sheet files and use cue points as bookmarks or track
  separators.
- Convert sound data to any supported format. You can convert sound
  data on the fly during a recording and convert files from one format
  to another.
- Work with file tags for any of the supported sound formats. 
- Edit your recordings. Unlike most other editing programs, Total
  Recorder performs editing without any loss of sound quality even when
  editing compressed sound.
- Normalize recordings or apply fading effects to recordings. 
- Schedule playbacks or recordings using either Total Recorder's
  built-in scheduler or an external scheduler.
- Work with playlists in M3U, PLS, or WPL format. 
- Use Total Recorder add-ons to enhance its functionality. Add-ons are
  available for you to do the following:
  * Restore sound (e.g. enhance the quality of recordings from tape or
    vinyl), refine speech recordings, accomplish automatic gain control,
    apply an equalizer, perform mixing functions, and to send your
    recordings to iTunes/iPod.
  * Record, play, and process video. 
- Perform batch processing. Batch processing makes it possible, for
  example, to convert a set of files or to use an add-on to process
  multiple files all at once.

These are only some of the features of Total Recorder. 

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WHAT'S NEW WITH VERSION 7.0?
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In addition to maintenance, Version 7.0 includes the following changes:

- A new kernel-mode driver is introduced, which provides the following:
  * Full support for Windows Vista. 
  * Elimination of sound distortion when recording sound from
    applications that use DirectSound, such as Skype 3.x.
  Total Recorder can still be used with the old driver, referred to as
  Total Recorder's user-mode driver. When you install Total Recorder,
  you can choose which drivers to install, and then specify which
  driver will be used by Total Recorder.
- Ability to export and import Total Recorder's configuration settings
  and scheduled jobs. This is useful if you need to reinstall your
  system, move Total Recorder from one computer to another, or as a
  backup.
- Tags for RIFF files are supported. This allows you to work with tags
  for WAV files, for example, in the same manner as MP3 files.
- You can rename files from a playlist using tag information.
- Use of the latest version of FLAC sources, resulting in higher speeds
  and better compression when encoding to FLAC format.
- Support for clear-type fonts and Windows XP visual styles.
- Current clip info is displayed in Total Recorder's main window.
- Ability to automatically start playing a file when you open the file.
- Improvements when working with playlists. For example, you can review
  playlist properties and use drag-and-drop to move files in playlists.
- Total Recorder's help is now in .chm format. 
- Ability to background record (i.e. capture) Internet broadcasts in
  MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis formats. This feature allows you to do the
  following:
  * Record Internet broadcasts in their original format without decoding
    and re-encoding.
  * Record without using an external player. 
  * Extract track information from a stream. 
  You can also play back an Internet broadcast.
- Use the unique time-shift feature which enables you to listen to
  recorded sound while a recording is being made. While listening, you
  can move anywhere within the recorded part of the sound stream and
  start playback. This feature is available for both ordinary
  recordings and when background recording Internet streams.
- Cue-sheet files are now supported by Total Recorder. Cue points can
  be created as follows:
  * Manually, to make a bookmark in a sound file. 
  * Automatically during a recording session based on pause reduction,
    changes of clip info in an external player, etc.
  * Automatically when capturing an Internet transmission and the
    information about a track changes.
  A file can be split at any time using cue points.
- Sequential numbers can be assigned to tracks while recording in split
  mode.
- If a scheduled job is running and your computer is about to shut
  down, hibernate, or be put into stand-by mode, you can cancel any
  type of shut-down process.
- The features of saving a file based on split conditions and the
  manual splitting of files have been redesigned.
- Sample JavaScript source code is added. 
- Other minor enhancements.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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To use Total Recorder, you need the following:
- a sound card 
- Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME (Millennium Edition), 2000, Windows XP, or
  Windows Vista. The operating system must be 32-bit. Total Recorder
  may work with other operating systems but it has not been tested with
  these other systems.

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                        INSTALLATION
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INSTALLATION NOTES
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Version 7.0 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.totalrecorder.com/downloads.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 OF OGG VORBIS FORMAT TO TOTAL RECORDER  
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For Total Recorder to play and record Ogg Vorbis files, you need the
free of charge "Ogg Vorbis Support Add-on".

Take the following steps to add support for the Ogg Vorbis format to
Total Recorder:
1. Download the "Ogg Vorbis Support Add-on" from
   http://www.totalrecorder.com/tr_ext_ogg.htm.
2. Install the add-on.

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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.totalrecorder.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.totalrecorder.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.

Notes: 

1. 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.

2. Only registration keys for Version 6.0 or later Developer Edition is
valid for Version 7.0.

To register Total Recorder:

1. Receive the registration key.

   For registered users of any version below version 6.0.
   All registered users are entitled to a free registration key. It
   is sent automatically by E-mail unless you specified that you do
   not want to receive E-mails from High Criteria or you have not
   provided your E-mail address. If you are a registered user wishing
   to upgrade, and you did not get your registration key,
   link to http://hcserv1.highcriteria.com/scripts/getkey/getkey.asp
   to use the High Criteria self service registration key system.

   OR

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

   To order by check, refer to the Registration.txt file in the 
   installation folder of Total Recorder.

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.totalrecorder.com/faq_tr.htm  - Frequently Asked Questions
- http://www.totalrecorder.com/support.htm - Support Area
