iRecordMusic for Mac

User Reviews

• Flaky Software and Poor Support

  concordalJuly 29, 2012

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  Works not too bad if all you're after is real-time web recording. But that's widely available for free (eg Audio HiJack)

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  - Scheduling often fails with obscure error messages under Snow Leopard. Scheduling doesn't work at all under Lion. - iRecordMusic website says nothing about Lion or Mountain Lion - No response at all to email queries.

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  Poor support. Doesn't work properly with 10.7 Lion. Forget about Mountain Lion.

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• Stalls in Leopard

  CrispinBatesNovember 3, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This program worked fine until I upgraded to Leopard. It does not now seem to respond to Apple Script events and even its own dialogue boxes (eg 'your software is up to date') cause it to freeze. Urgently in need of repairing before I would again recommend anyone to buy it.

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• iRecordMusic

  misc15September 18, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Intuitive, solid, performs as documented. Created my own problem but support was very responsive. Favorite feature: Integration with iCal and iTunes. Schedule recording my favorite Saturday night radio program, find it in iTunes on Sunday morning and then listen to it later, in the car whenever.

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• Just does not cut it

  John HillestadJuly 6, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /> I have owned this program and have tried to use it many times but it has a major flaw that the developers refuse to address. If you are recording a show and the stream times out or dies it will NOT reconnect ! So you will end up with a recoding off just a partial show! Radio Replay for the PC has no problem reconnecting and will dutifully keep attempting... I never miss a program with Radio Replay BUT I have to keep a pc laptop running Windows for this ! I wanted a mac app and I thought I had found it but until this is fixed your dreaming if you think your recordings will be reliable. When the app works it is fine and the quality of the recordings are great - if they would just fix the dead stream problem I could go back to my imac and finally put away the old thinkpad that sits around. I cant understand why they will not fix this! They know it exists and they keep promising to fix it and they never do! I stopped using this program 2 years ago when they told me they knew about it and maybe they'll fix it... So if your hardcore about recording a stream radio show from the net there really is no mac solution.

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• Scheduling simply does not work

  rbeaver_dotmacJune 22, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />When it works, this program is great. If you wish to manually record something, it works fine. However, scheduling through iCal is quite a mess. I have tried for about a month to figure out how to reliably record a radio feed every weekday. About one day in five the show gets recorded as scheduled. The rest of the time a wide assortment of errors occur. Sometimes it's "Apple event timed out". Sometimes it's just "..missed the scheduled recording". Sometimes the program just "quits unexpectedly". There are others I don't remember. All of this occurs on the most recent G5 20" iMac with 2 GB memory and a cable connection. Everything else on the computer works the best and is the most stable of any computer I've ever owned.

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• Works great for me !

  hydephotoDecember 9, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Does what it says on the box.

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• Promising software with bad error handling

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionNovember 20, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A very solid and capable program when it's working, but when it fails, it really fails. Basically, you can't plan on iRecordMusic recording your radio programs if you leave the program unattended for any length of time. If either your internet connection or the site you're streaming aren't 100% reliable, you'll get an error dialog popping up. While the error dialog is up, the program refuses to launch additional recordings and you'll return to find a dozen AppleScript timeout errors waiting to be dismissed. The iCal integration likely adds some neat features, but having to use it to schedule your recordings is frustrating. It's tough to tell at a glance what station/site you're going to record. (ak47.akamai.com/radiodist.asp?zzy anyone?) And even apart from the launch problems above, events are sometimes missed without warning or explanation even though they clearly exist in iCal. The program's insistence on generating popups for everything it does is also a little frustrating. The iCal integration means iCal keeps loading and jumping to the foreground, and the app itself leaps to the foreground displaying windows full of animated banner ads and file compressoin status updates. If anyone knows of a way to make it operate solely in the background I'd love to know about it. The software for the RadioSHARK hardware offers a great example of how this should work -- completely silent background recording without so much as a bouncing dock icon. Lastly, there's no user forum for people who want to share tricks on "eating around the bugs," tips for new and interesting uses, and lists of interesting sites for recording. While the reliability problems trump most else for me, I don't want to only rag on the program. There's plenty of good to go with the problems. For example, no matter what audio format you prefer, there's an option for you. From FLAC to mp3 to AAC and many more, you can have your streams saved off however you please. Nobody's left out in the cold here. Parts of the interface are pure genius, as well. To record a site, rather than having to find the URL for the RealPlayer or Windows Media Player stream, you simply use a browser to start the stream as you normally might. iRecordMusic notes the address of the page containing the media player and uses that for future launches. Not only is this easier than hand-picking a streaming media URL, but more reliable. Many stations seem to use multiple streaming providers or even use scripts to generate URLs based on the date or your Mac's streaming capabilities, and iRM doesn't suffer by it. iRM also doesn't require the user to listen to stations being recorded. They record silently so there's no problem with listening to music while the recording happens. Further, it's possible to record multiple stations at once, even if both stations want to use RealPlayer at the same time. So far as I know, this is the only program like it on the Mac. In my view, if BitCartel can get rid of the troublesome blocking error dialogs and firm up the scheduling, they'll have a five star product.

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• Great product, well worth the &#36;

  sea_prosperoDecember 8, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Bought this today and spent the afternoon recording RealAudio with it. Works flawlessly. Easy to use. Produced great results that I could import to iTunes for CDs or for use on my iPod. Can't recommend it highly enough. I've been looking for software that would do just with IRecordMusic does. Thanks!

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• Does what it says...

  risc1October 1, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a great little app that does exactly what it says it will, it's also a nice media player. The only thing I'd like to see is tabbed browsing you can end up with way too many windows open. I used the demo for about 5 minutes then purchased it, it's perfect for what I want and well worth the 5 stars.

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• Great idea, worth the money

  JimSniderAugust 28, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I love this program. Well worth the money, just for the time I would normally spend tinkering around with a program like WireTap. I would love to see a stacking feature added that would let me just specify a series of archive-audio URLs that I want to record, one after another, so I could just set it going and walk away. Another really great feature would be if it could find and automatically record all the available archived audio at a specific website. Imagine that, if you could just point the program to thislife.org and let 'er rip (no pun intended) for two days, and come back with hours of audio ready to plop onto the ol' iPod. A great program, nonetheless. I paid the modest shareware fee about ten minutes after I tried the demo version, I was that impressed. I just knew it was the program I was looking for, and I look forward to seeing it develop and improve. Nice job!

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