Replay Music is a revolutionary new way to capture streaming music from the
Internet or any external source into MP3 files or CDs. And it's really easy
to use, too.
For best results, we suggest you use one of the following high-quality streaming
music services:
Some player programs may need to be configured to work optimally with Replay
Music. Here's how to configure the popular ones:
Rhapsody 2.1
Click Options, User Settings from the menu.
Click Sound Output.
Select Wave Out.
Rhapsody 3.0 or newer:
For the best track recognition when recording from Rhapsody 3:
Turn off Rhapsody's equalizer. Click on Tools, Equalizer
and set it to the OFF state.
Keep Rhapsody's main volume level to at least mid-range.
As with all player programs, be sure to open Replay Music PRIOR to opening
Rhapsody.
MusicMatch
MusicMatch needs to be reconfigured to use the Default Sound Card Driver
when recording as follows:
Open MusicMatch
Click Options, Settings.
Click the Player tab.
Under Output Control, make sure Default is selected.
Click OK.
In more recent versions of MusicMatch, there may be no Sound Driver options
available. If this happens, then you may need to use this process:
Close MusicMatch.
Open Replay Music.
Start a recording session.
Open MusicMatch.
Play the songs to record.
Yahoo Launch Cast
Napster
AccuRadio
Other Windows Media based services
If you have trouble recording, you may need to adjust the audio output in Windows
Media Player as follows:
Open Windows Media Player.
Select Tools, Options from the menu. (If you don't see a menu, right
click on the top of the window.)
Click the Devices tab.
Click Speakers, then click the Properties button.
Make sure the Sound Playback option is set to Default DirectSound Device.
iTunes
QuickTime and iTunes often default to using Direct Sound, which leads to sound
distortion during both recording and playback when Replay Music is active.
To correct this problem, you need to tell QuickTime to use "Safe Mode (waveOut
only) as the playback device. Here's how:
Make sure Replay Radio,
Replay Music and iTunes are closed.
Open QuickTime via Start, Programs, QuickTime, QuickTime Player.
Select Edit, Preferences, QuickTime Preferences.
Go to the tab marked Audio.
Verify that Safe mode (waveOut only) is selected.
Click the Select Audio Playback and Recording Devices button
to open your windows audio control panel. Set both devices to match the name
of your sound card. Click OK.
Click OK in the Quick Time settings, then close QuickTime.
Setting up Your Firewall
When you use Replay Music, it needs access to the Web to look up the song information.
Often times, your firewall may not allow Replay Music access. Here's how to
configure two of the most popular firewall solutions, Windows Firewall and Zone
Alarm.
Windows Firewall:
Open Windows Firewall. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then
Network Connections. Next, choose Change Windows Firewall Settings.
Windows Firewall appears.
Click the Exceptions tab. The screen below appears:
Click Add Program, and then select Replay Music from the list.
Your will see this screen:
Click OK. Replay Music will now be able to access the Web to lookup
song information.
For Zone Alarm:
Open Zone Alarm, and click the program Control Tab.
Locate Replay Music. If Replay Music is blocked, you'll see red Xs next
to it as shown here:
Click each X, and select Allow. When you're done, your screen should look
like this:
Starting a Recording Session
IMPORTANT: When recording, be sure to open Replay Music first, THEN
open the music player program or browser you're using.
Here's how Replay Music appears when you open it:
To start a recording session:
Open Replay Music by clicking the Replay Music icon
on your desktop.
Open your browser or music player program.
In Replay Music , click the Start Recording button. The Start Recording
Session dialog appears:
Optionally, enter a name for the Artist and Album.
This is used if Replay Music can't determine the artist or album name.
If you select the "Always tag with Artist/Album name
above" option, Replay Music
will use whatever you have entered above as the Artist and Album for that
entire recording session. This overrides Replay Music's Album/Artist lookup.
Enter a Default Genre. If Replay Music cannot determine a genre,
then this one is used.
Check Always tag with Genre name if you want to override Replay
Music's genre lookup.
The Load Playlist function is optional. You can import
a playlist text file in the order of song, artist, and album delimited with
a "|" for better song recognition. Each line of the file would
correspond to the order of songs played. You may also load m3u and .pls files.
These playlists are used by MusicMatch, Napster and Winamp.
You can customize how files are saved into subfolders using the Directory
Format.
\%a will save each file into a folder with the name of the Album.
\%A will save each file into a folder with the name of the Artist.
\%G will save each file into a folder with the name of the Genre.
You can also combine tags -- for example, %A\%a will create an
artist directory with the artist's albums as a subdirectory.
If you want to automatically stop recording after a certain time, enter
a value next to End recording after. Otherwise, just leave it blank.
Add Tracks to Windows Media Player: If you want your recorded
tracks to be added to your Windows Media Player music library, check this
option. Tracks are added after the recording session ends.
Add Tracks to iTunes: If you want your recorded tracks to be added
to iTunes automatically (for syncing to your iPod), check this option. Tracks
are added after the recording session ends.
Click OK. The recording session starts.
To ensure Replay Music is recording, look for the VU Meter moving rapidly
on the main screen. This lets you know that Replay Music can "hear" the
audio to record. If you do not see movement in the VU Meter, then Replay Music
is not detecting any audio. Make sure that you always open Replay Music PRIOR
to starting the application that you will be recording from.
After each song ends, Replay Music determines the artist and track name, and
displays those names in the recorded songs list.
Hint: Entering a default artist, album or genre helps increase the recognition
rate, if you know you're going to be recording a particular album, artist or
genre.
Stopping a Recording Session
After you're done recording, click the Stop Recording button. This ends
the recording session.
If you've specified that a CD is to be created, or if you want to add songs
into iTunes, then those operations will occur at this time.
Editing Track Information
During or after recording, you can edit information that is saved along with
each recorded song. This allows you greater control over how songs are labeled,
or allows you to properly tag a song that is unrecognized by Replay Music. You
can edit tracks one at a time, or several at once.
To edit track information for a single song:
Click the song to edit.
Click Edit Track(s). Or right-click on the track to edit and select
"edit track" from the menu options.
The
Edit Track dialog appears:
Change the title, artist or album, track number or genre fields as you see
fit, then click OK.
The song data is now changed in the MP3 file.
To edit multiple tracks:
Highlight the tracks to edit.
Click Edit Track(s). The Edit Multiple Tracks dialog appears:
Change the Artist, Album or Genre tag. If you don't want to change a tag,
leave it blank.
Click OK when finished.
To move tracks: Right click on the track to move and select "Move
Track(s) to directories according to directory format". This
allows you to move
already recorded songs in the track list to the same folder selected in the "Directory
Format" text
box found in the "Start
Recording Session" dialog box. This is good for organizing songs.
Splitting Tracks Manually
Sometimes when recording from radio or live footage, there are no cues for
the end of a track, and you may want to split tracks manually. You can do this
by clicking the Split button while recording. The split button looks like this:
Sorting the Track List
During or after a recording session, you can sort the track list by artist,
album or genre as follows:
Click S# to sort songs in the order which they were recorded.
Click T# to sort by album track number.
Click Title to sort by song title.
Click Artist to sort by artist.
Click Album to sort by album name.
Click Genre to sort by genre.
Deleting Tracks
During or after recording, you can delete tracks you do not wish to save.
You can delete tracks using the "delete" button, or by right-clicking on the
track and select "delete" from the menu options.
To delete tracks:
Select the track or tracks to delete.
Click the Delete Track(s) button
or
Right-click on the track to delete.
Select "delete" from the menu options.
Configuring Replay Music (Settings)
Replay Music lets you configure some parameter for optimizing the recording
experience. Start by clicking the Settings button, and the Settings dialog
appears.
Input
Pick a folder to hold recorded files: This is the folder where your
MP3 recordings are saved. Actually, they are saved in a subfolder under this
folder, with the same name as the album name. So, if this setting is "D:\Music",
and the album you're recording is named "Eagles", then songs are
saved in "D:\Test\Eagles".
Input Source: For most streaming recordings, use Sound Card as the
input source. If you're recording via the Line-In port on your PC (i.e. recording
old Vinyl albums), or if Sound Card isn't working, then you can change the
recording source.
Stop Recording After Idle: If you're doing an unattended recording
session, you can have Replay Music automatically stop recording once a certain
amount of idle time is detected. Set this to zero to disable this feature.
Volume Level: You can adjust the recording volume level with this
slider.
Splitting Tracks
In general, the default settings for these parameters will work with most of
the popular Internet Music sources. Only change these if your songs are not
being split properly.
Split Tracks: Enables automatic track splitting. If you uncheck this,
then no track splits take place while recording.
Minimum milliseconds of silence between tracks: When Replay Music
records, it splits songs into individual tracks, primarily based upon detecting
silence between each track. If tracks are not being split properly, adjust
this setting. (Note: 1000 milliseconds = 1 second.)
Do not record or split track if less than __ second(s): Occasionally
when recording, you may get partial tracks or unwanted interludes. This setting
lets you choose to eliminate tracks under a certain length you decide.
Volume Level Cut-off: When Replay Music determines silence, it uses
a minimum volume threshold for deciding what "silence" is. For example,
if you're recording from a vinyl LP, there may be some detectable background
noise. You can increase this value if recordings are not being split properly,
if you think that some background noise is occurring.
Here are our suggested defaults:
Minimum Milliseconds: 500
Do Not Record: 15 seconds
Volume Level Cutoff: 500 - 900 range.
Proxy
Replay Music needs to access the Web to determine the artist and track title
for each song. If you connect to the Web using a proxy server (most connections
DON'T), then set the Proxy Address and Port here.
Output Options
Replay Music can create MP3 files, or automatically burn CDs for you.
File name format: This setting allows you to customize how your files
are named. The symbols used for formatting are:
%T = Track name
%A = Artist name
%a = Album
%G = Genre
%t = Track number
The default is %T-%A which means the track name will come first, then "-",
then the artist name.
Track number File name digits: Setting this option to
"2" will add leading zeros to track number in the file name
for better file sorting.
Automatic Tagging: You can turn off tag lookups when this setting
is unchecked.
Automatic tag at end of recording session: Check this
option if you experience audio glitches when Replay Music is tagging. This
will invoke the tagging database after you've finished recording and
will prevent the skip that some users experience when Gracenote tags during
recording.
Record to MP3s: Makes individual MP3 files from each song. If this
is selected, you can choose the bit rate for the MP3 file. Note that saving
to a bit rate higher than the original recording has no effect on the quality.
Normally, 128 Kbps or 196 Kbps is sufficient for excellent quality.
Burn to WAV: Makes individual WAV files from each song.
Burn
to MP3 CD: After
the recording session ends, all your recorded tracks are burned to an MP3
DATA CD. (You will need a CD Player that can read MP3 CDs to play this.)
Burn to Audio CD: After the recording session ends, all your recorded
tracks are burned to an Audio CD. These CDs hold a maximum of 74 minutes
of audio, and will work on virtually all CD players. (Note: when burning
audio CDs for use on older CDs players, be sure to use CD-R discs, not CD-RW.
CD-RW discs may not work in older CD payers.)
When reach 700 Mb Max: This ends the recording session, and burns
the MP3 DATA CD once the total size of recordings becomes 700 Mb, the maximum
capacity of an MP3 DATA CD.
When reach 80 minutes max: When burning audio CDs, the CD creation
process will start once 80 minutes of songs have been recorded.
Kbps: Select the bit rate of the final file. Generally 128 Kbps
gives great quality, but you can go up to 320 Kbps. Note that recording a
128 Kbps stream and outputting it to 320 Kbps won't give you any better sound
quality.
CBR or VBR: CBR stands for Constant bitrate and VBR stands
for Variable Bitrate. CBR is the older encoding method, so all MP3 players
recognize this encoding method and a player can easily calculate the length
of the MP3 recorded with this method. VBR is a newer encoding method so the
recorded files will usually be smaller compared to CBR, but some players
do not recognize this method and may have a hard time measuring
the length of the MP3 recorded.
Creating CDs
Replay Music can burn CDs automatically from your recordings. Both Audio CDs
and MP3 DATA CDs can be created. Plus, you can make CDs on-the-fly, or pick
tracks to place on a CD after a recording session has ended.
Click Settings, and choose one of the CD output options: Burn
to MP3 CD or Burn to Audio CD.
Click Start Recording to start your recording session.
Click Stop Recording when finished recording.
Follow the instructions which appear for burning all recorded tracks automatically
or just selected tracks.
The CD will be created.
Configuring the CD Burner
If you plan to have Replay Music make audio CDs, you should be sure to set
up the CD Burner properly in Replay Music.
From the main Replay Music display, select Settings. The
Settings dialog appears.
Select Setup CD Burner. The CD Burner Setup dialog appears:
The CD drive should appear. Set the proper write speed for the media you
want to use. (Look on the box to be sure you have the proper setting.)
Click OK.
IMPORTANT NOTES
CD-R discs will generally give better results than CD-RW discs, especially
with older CD players.
Ensure the write speed is within range for the disc you are using.
Recording LPs or Cassette Tapes
You can also use Replay Music to record LPs or cassette tapes as MP3 files
or CDs. Here's how:
Hook an AMPLIFIER output attached to your audio tape recorder to the line-in
or mic port on your PC. (Hooking up the turntable or tape recorder directly
to the PC won't produce any sound.)
In Replay Music's Settings, change the Input Source to Line-In
or Microphone (depending upon which port you connected to in step 1). Click
OK when finished.
on your desktop. 
