To plan a scheduled recording, open the System Agent. Click new job, select Loop Recorder from the list or by clicking the Browse button. In the properties of your new job, you can specify when to start and stop Loop Recorder and add command line switches to start Loop Recorder with.
The command line switch-s (save on exit) is useful, if you want to control both start and end of the recording by the System Agent. The System Agent lets you start and stop Loop Recorder at specified times, so you have all the time planings all at once. When the System Agent closes Loop Recorder, the wave is automatically saved.
You can also specify only the starting time in the System Agent and let Loop Recorder stop the recording and quick save using the -c:mm:ssswitch. If you would like to use Loop Recorder's Editor afterwards, please use the -e:mm:ssswitch.
Note that the switches-s, -e and -c make Loop Recorder start in the Continuous Recording mode.
A useful addition is the command line switch-v (volume), that restores the input mixer settings. You can get the required values using the command line generator in the Config menu.
Loop Recorder can record the sound as it is played from your Realplayer or other live streaming audio players. For that purpose, you need at least a soundcard, that supports fullduplex. This means, that it can playback and record audio at the same time.
To record the audio, start Loop Recorder, set the recording-mixer to "Wave" or "What you hear". To get the best results, check the quality of the playback. Set Loop Recorder to the same quality, e. g. 22050 Hz, stereo.
If you get a "device-busy" message, it could meen, that your soundcard does not support full-duplex.
If your soundcard does not have a Wave channel on the recording mixer, you need to physically connect the output to the input of the soundcard and record from "Line in". Don't forget to mute the Line in playback channel of your mixer to avoid feedbacks.
We recommend Soundblaster Live, which supports fullduplex as well as recording from the wave out device.
Loop Recorder uses special multimedia functions for disk reading and writing, that don't use caching. So your disk cache will be kept clean and ready for the files you access often. Please enable this in the Config menu.
On a P450, the minimized Loop Recorder runs with only 0.6% CPU usage. You will not even recognize, that Loop Recorder is running. We recommend to add it to the Startup folder of the Start Menu, so you will never miss the beginning of something that you would have liked to record.