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I bet this is going to turn out to be AOMrecord’s volume settings not taking hold when you run the program. This has happened to me several times and happens most often:
1) When you are playing the streaming audio you want to record before you launch AOMrecord. Do it the other way around.
2) If you touch any software volume setting outside of AOMrecord. If you mess with the volume using Real Player or Windows Media (or Windows own volume control) , it will cause AOMrecord to disregard its own volume settings.
AOMrecord is conservative about volume levels. When I run the software, the audio level drops considerably and for me that is a sign AOMrecord’s settings are working properly.
If your volume settings are set too high, you will record very distorted scratchy audio. If you load the audio file into a sound editor and just see a solid block of sound instead of normal peaks and valleys, that is the problem.
It is not hard to mistake overdriven audio for scratchy or tinny sound.
I particularly suspect this might be the cause if on some days it works fine and on others it does not.
Always remember to reset your peak volume settings if you plan on switching between AOL and other streaming services – their default volumes differ.
Some potentially good news on this front – I had our cable
On another issue, when XM cannot pass proper track information, it will send out a generic track title like XM Escape – XM Escape – XM Escape. I have inserted this into my Whitelist, but noted that AOMrecord overwrites the existing file with each instance of this appearing.
It might be useful to add an option check box on the Whitelist or under Options to -either- replace the existing file -or- -rename- the current file to something different so that the new recording doesn’t replace the existing one. It could be renamed something like XM Escape1.mp3 XM Escape 2.mp3, etc.
Thanks! Phillip
I didn’t know if you had seen this or not or what you thought of it…. Thanks.
Hi Lozboz,
Download this file: http://AOMrecord.com/bin/MSIE.ini and replace the file with the same name in AOMrecord’s program folder (normally C:Program FilesAOMrecord).
Before doing so please rename the original file to whatever you want to have a backup copy available.
Please let us know if it works.
Thomas
Thomas, I noticed an update for AOMRecord, no doubt related to fixing this problem. However, as you created a special MSIE.INI file for me to allow the recording of selected XM channels, will this update interfere with that file?
— Phillip
Some potentially good news on this front – I had our cable modem replaced yesterday and so far so good with stopping this problem.
I’ll test it for the next few days and see if this, was in fact, the problem all along.
On another issue, when XM cannot pass proper track information, it will send out a generic track title like XM Sunny – XM Sunny – XM Sunny. I have inserted this into my Whitelist, but noted that AOMrecord overwrites the existing file with each instance of this appearing.
It might be useful to add an option check box on the Whitelist or under Options to -either- replace the existing file -or- -rename- the current file to something different so that the new recording doesn’t replace the existing one. It could be renamed something like XM Sunny 1.xxx XM Sunny 2.xxx, etc.
Thanks! Phillip
I have tried some different experiments to see if I could get it stopped to no avail thus far.
1) I tried making the processing directory to be on a different drive. That didn’t do anything.
2) I tried turning off encoding. This created a whole new set of issues because when I tried to use the encoder program, it just deleted my .wav files altogether and didn’t process any of them. Microsoft Antispyware did come up and asked if I wanted to allow a bat file to run, to which I said yes, but that didn’t do anything. I had to undelete my files.
My suspicions are that this is some sort of problem with the stream keeping up, but it seems to only be an issue with AOMrecord is running. I know AOMrecord is designed to restart the stream when it is stopped, and maybe this isn’t working properly through the script you provided. It is very annoying because the fault is totally unpredictable. This afternoon it started within 20 minutes of setting the computer to record. Some other times I can get a good hour before it starts to act up. I’d love to get to the bottom of this.
Hi Philip,
Speaking for myself I have never seen this.
Do you use the player inside the AOL client? If so, try with the player that runs without the client, inside the browser or vice versa. You can launch this player from AOMrecord (1st tab).
Thomas
I am using the web based player that launches from AOMrecord. It has been happening off an on all morning for me.
Thank you very much for doing this. I have been testing it over the past several days and can report back that it does seem to be doing a good job of splitting the songs and handling the channel correctly. The only times it doesn’t work properly are during rare instances when Sunny segues between songs without a significant pause (which is understandable considering the need for the pause to recognize different tracks), and when the AOL Player stops working correctly.
I do not know if this is a symptom of using AOMrecord or the AOL player itself, but at random times (sometimes within minutes of starting, other times within a few hours), the AOL player suddenly starts pausing and restarting over and over again. It acts like a rebuffering problem, but I have very fast broadband so that should not be it, and once this problem starts, it never corrects itself unless I hit the stop button on the player and restart it.
Whenever the player does this, it resets the playing time to 0:00, gets to maybe 0:01, stops, resets, and tries to start again, and so on.
Has anyone else noticed this? It makes it very hard to set AOMrecord to just run overnight, because usually within an hour this problem occurs and the effective ability to record ends without a manual reset of the player.
In any event, I am now a registered AOLrecord user and greatly appreciate the efforts you made on my behalf.
— Phillip
Another channel with pauses is AudioVisions. The classical channels also seem to incorporate pauses as well. I’d be personally happy if I could just get Sunny to record, as I’m a light music fan.
– Phillip
P.S. – I have sampled Pandora, but it isn’t as useful to me as most of the music there is also licensed by Yahoo! Music/Rhapsody/Virgin, etc., and I can play that music on demand, so I don’t have to wait for Pandora to play something I like. The reason I am interested in Sunny, for example, is that their music library is more often than not custom recorded for beautiful music stations (most of which have long since gone away in the United States). Almost 75% of their playlist is not commercially available anywhere.
Let me know if you can develop and release a customized new .ini file that will split tracks based on basic audio pauses. If I can get Sunny to record, I’ll be a very happy registered customer of AOMrecord!
For some reason, changing my profile with a real name doesn’t take… so I’ll just sign this:
wny=phillip
Sunny would be the bext example of an XM channel with distinct pauses between each song. It plays light music and there is a one-two second pause between each song.
I saw you provided an .ini file back in January that would ignore the default behavior of AOMrecord of waiting for songs to end before track splitting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work with the current version of AOMrecord. If it could be adapted to the current version so that tracks from XM’s Sunny could be split based on pause recognition, you’d have a registered customer here.
