[BC] Aircheck Recording

[Hal Schardin]

State Services has been using Total Recorder for 2 years now. I
agree that it is reliable. The only reboots have been when Windows
updates are installed. 
We are running the program as a diagnostic tool. If our overnight
automation fails, we can play back individual hours and diagnose the
time and nature of the failure. We only save 24 hours of
programming; older files are automatically overwritten, so no file
management is necessary. Using the Windows Media codec at 12 kbps
mono, we are able to store 1 hour in less that 5 megabytes.
The program runs on a Windows server. My son created a simple web
interface that permits access on any computer within our facility. 



Hal Schardin, CPBE
Minnesota Services for the Blind
651 642-0848
Hal.Schardin at STATE.MN.US

>>> markc at kjly.com 12/15/2006 4:25 PM >>>
We've been using Total Recorder, a shareware audio recording
program that 
has a nice simple scheduler. I set up a basic XP Pro box with Total
Recorder 
and have been recording with it quite reliably since last January.

Well, I should say reliably for Windows. I let it go three months
one time 
and it did require a reboot. I generally access it for file
management using 
TightVNC over my LAN. And typically I restart it monthly as I do my

streaming encoder. They are together so it's easy to do them both
at the 
same time.

Total Recorder doesn't have "automatic" file management like a real
logger 
program, and if you need that feature you probably want to use the
real 
thing. If you don't mind going in every so often and cleaning out
files, 
then TR might be just what you need.

It's not a Telos Profile or iMedia Logger, but it works pretty well
for 
KJLY.

Mark Croom
Blue Earth



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:38 PM
Subject: [BC] Aircheck Recording


> What are you folks using for long-form archival recording these
days?  I'm 
> looking for software that'll stay reliably in "record", spitting
out 
> compressed audio chunks at regular intervals and sending them to
a 
> network-based storage system.
>
> All opinions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Happy Holidays!
>
>
> Mark Durenberger


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