Well, at first, i couldn't get it to record anything. it would say it was recording, showed track info etc, but wasn't doing anything. On the audio devices tab, it wasn't showing any input in the recording level meters, even though I had the right sound card input chosen. I never clicked the automatic input search button, because it already showed the sound card, so i thought i didn't need to. Anyways, i eventually did click that, just trying to click anything and everything to get it to start working, and voila, sound showed in the recording level. Great, i thought...
So, after that, i was trying to convert to mp3, and of course had the hardest time trying to find the lame.exe encoder. I really didn't want to go through the hassles of compiling it from the binaries off the website, so i was looking around for the lame.exe that i could get from someone. I eventually found one, and copied the lame.exe to the aomrecord folder, but it still wasn't creating the mp3 file. It was creating the album art image, but not the mp3. So, i started reading through the forum, and found someone had a similar problem and mentioned that it was the version of lame they were using. So I went and found a different version of lame.exe, and copied that in there, and it started working. So, after that, it took me about three days to do that, in between working (I have to do that!) and trying other software packages too.
So, now, the only thing that's really kind of a pain, is that every time i want to record something, the automatic input search causes the media data to come from windows media player, and when I'm trying to record slacker radio, it doesn't have any info. I have to uncheck "get media data from provider" and recheck it then it seems to start working. I am starting aomrecord before i open the web browser, so i know that isn't the issue.
I have to say, that Replay Media Catcher was a pretty nice product. It has the built in mp3 encoder, so I didn't have to mess with that at all, and after install, it just worked. I didn't have to fuss with inputs or anything. The only thing that sets your product apart from that one is that you create the album art, and I particularly want that. Playing mp3s in windows media center and stuff looks a lot better when you have that album art, so you can imagine my disappointment when i found that it doesn't automatically embed the art in the mp3. So, the thought of having to manually embed those files in each mp3 seems quite daunting of a task. If you could get that to automatically embed that, then that would be great. Build in a mp3 encoder, and your app would probably be one of the best out there. IT is my field, so a lot of this is probably easier for me to figure out than the average computer user. I don't think everyone is going to know how to find the lame encoder and stuff. If that was built in, I think you'd be able to greatly increase your market.
Thanks for asking.
Ryan