Hi,

I am trying to legally record what goes out my sound card so I can play
it in my car. I found TUNEBITE which alleges to do just this and
thought I would try it. Here are my results:

Recording speed: The claim is at least 4X recording speed. Neither I
nor anybody on their support web site can get it to work at more than
1X.
Size: The Audio Book I am recording is 81 MB. The size of the MP3 is
406 MB, over 5X bloat (and no, it's not a .WAV file).
Sound quality: The first 10 seconds sound OK. The rest of the 5+ hours
is completely silent as far as I can tell.
Tech support: Unless you can read German, there is none!

My system is 100% mainstream:
FX-60 CPU
4 GB OCZ RAM
Asus A8N32-SLI mobo
EVGA 7800 GTX/256 video
Dual Raptor 74, RAID 0 system drive
Win XP, latest patches
Norton ISP 2007
iTunes 7 latest

I don't know to get technical support or ask for a refund. Fortunately,
I paid with Paypal and intend to have them unpaid for gross
misrepresentation of an egregiously defective product.

I just find myself wondering whether Audible is behind this web site.
Offer people the promise of being able to fairly use the content they
have purchased only to technically frustrate them until they give up.

Avoid tunebite like the plague!

Brian

brianp@austin.rr.com wrote:
I am happy with Total Recorder.

Hi,

Consider this please:
1. .aa files can be accelerated with 1x only (this is checkable in the
demo version, with which you can test the software before buying). The
upper speeds (2x -> 4x) are aplicable to .wma conversions. In this
case, the maximum you can get is 4x4=16x, as Tunebite can record up to
4 slots simultaneously.
2. the size issue...This is due to the conversion algorithm, usually
the created outputs are 2, 3 times bigger (in size) then the originals.
Still, the duration should be exactlly the same.
3. the "no sound" result may be caused by the dubbing function. Seems
that on some systems Tunebite fails to properly enable this dubbing
driver and still uses the regular soundcard of the system, despite the
digital mode is activated. This would result in creating an unproper
output, much shorter then the original, as happened in your case.
Following sequence should remove the inconvenient:
- go to ControlPanel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio
- manually select Tunebite High-Speed Dubbing as the default device
for Sound playback
- return to Tunebite: activate the static mode for high-speed dubbing
(Options > Record > High-speed dubbing > Use a fixed number of slots:
1)
- try a conversion. Is the created output proper?
- roll back to the regular soundcard of the system: ControlPanel >
Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio > Sound playback
- repeat the conversion in Tunebite. Is the created output proper?
4. Tunebite support is always reachable (and ready to help) at
support@tunebite.com


brianp@austin.rr.com wrote:

irina.maco...@rapidsolution.ro wrote:
Now that was a nice reply from the support guys
It seems like you are not doing something right.
But one thing is clear, if the support team bothered to answer your
complaints on Google I am more then sure that they would have answered
your emails to them too.
I always find it amusing when people, like Brian here, make such a big
case and end up like this making a fool of themselves.
Btw. I am a Tunebite user too, and never had any complaints.

You may have a try with noteBurner from http://www.noteburner.com. It
works as a virtual cd writer so keeps high quality and have a very fast
converting speed.


"brianp@austin.rr.com дµÀ£º
"

I tried both TuneBite(http://www.tunebite.com) and
NoteBurner(http://www.noteburner.com) and they worked perfect on my
computer. The only difference between TuneBite and NoteBurner is that
TuneBite uses recording technique while NoteBurner burns music onto a
virtual CD-R. I cannot tell any difference in terms of the music
quality. But I would agree that NoteBurner is faster than TuneBite.
Both software are worth a try. Cheers!

yuangq@gmail.com wrote: