Replay Music Review
I almost never buy software, but I HAD to buy this.
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You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
It records music from your online music service and it auto-splits and auto-names your tracks.
It might not run well with other softare simultaneously, and it records your music as it plays which means there's a lot of time involved.
Replay Music is THE answer for your online music service recording needs. At least, the best one I've found so far. I bought it and it does exactly what I wanted it to do. Basically, I wanted all of my music library downloaded to my computer. So, what did I do? I queued up a 2,000+ track playlist and let Replay Music run on top of it for about 7 days straight. True, you have to let all of the tracks play through because it records them while they play but, it's better than doing mp3 searches on the 'net.
One of the greatest features of Replay Music is that it knows when to start and stop recording which means that all of your recorded songs are automatically split. And if that's not good enough, it also retrieves the track details such as artist name, track title, etc... However, there were a handful of tracks that Replay couldn't recongnize and those are left with a generic file name and you have to figure it out for yourself later. In my case about 200+ out of 2,000+ of my tracks were unrecognized; not a big deal considering what I did get.
Of course Replay has its general set of options: Edit Tracks, Delete Tracks, Play Track, Burn CD, and Settings. The application settings are pretty straight forward: input, track split adjustments, proxy options, and the ability to change the output bitrates.
There is one major issue that I have with this software, however. If you want to run Replay Music, you can't do anything else on your PC while it's recording. Why? Because any other processes will cause the tracks to skip. I don't know why this happens and it sucks. It might be the music service software, it might be Replay, I don't know. It could possibly be a problem with my computer, but I'm running a 64 bit AMD Athlon with 2Gb of Ram, so you be the judge on that one. The outcome might not be the same for you. I just ran it all on a spare computer so it didn't interrupt my daily activities.
By the way, there is a demo version of Replay Music, so I highly recommend trying it out to see how it will run on your system.
In summary it's great software, definitely worth my dollar bills, sometimes it could have a few hiccups, and try before you buy.