| What do
you do if you want to record something knowing you will be
away at the time when recording should begin? Or if you want
to have something recorded repeatedly at the same time?
Our Audio Notes Recorder and Claudio are enabled with a
special control interface that allows Smooth Program Scheduler
(another program of ours) to automate them so making unattended
scheduled recordings is possible. True, you need one more
program to do this, but Smooth Program Scheduler is completely
free.
Once you have Smooth Program Scheduler and Audio Notes Recorder
installed on your computer here is how to make a task for
scheduled recording (the same procedure will work for Claudio):
1. Open Smooth Program Scheduler and click New Task on the
toolbar.
2. Select Audio Notes Recorder from the list. If you do
not see it there you can browse for its executable file ANR.exe
in its installation folder
(default: C:\Program Files\XemiComputers\Audio
Notes Recorder).
3. Name the task and give it some description.
4. Set the task execution time (choose the date and enter
the time in 24h format).
5. Now add actions to the task.
- To make a recording you first have to start Audio
Notes Recorder so first action in this task would be "execute
anr.exe".
Select it from the list of actions and click Add Action.
- Next action would be "start recording". At
this point you can also select the sound source by enabling "select
source" option
(e.g. select Line In if you want to record from some external device
connected
to your computer).
- Next logical step is to "stop recording" and
finally you can exit the program through "close audio
notes recorder" action.
While adding actions pay attention to their time offsets. Default offset
between two actions is 20 seconds, but you will most likely want to
set different offset
when it comes to length of recording.
6. When you finish with actions you can also set some recurrence
pattern if that task should repeat in regular intervals.
7. Finally, check all task parameters and actions once again
and if everything is ok click Create to put it on the list
of scheduled tasks.
Notes:
- Main difference between Audio Notes Recorder and Claudio
is that the first one is cheaper and limited to 8-bit mono
recordings while Claudio costs more and can do full 16-bit
stereo recordings.
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