Smart Recorder for Pc

Doesn’t always let me access files I’ve saved Poor quality of recording Not worth your time and money

I love/hate this program. When it works, it works pretty well. But when it doesn't, you are screwed. I use this to take notes in meetings with clients, so that I have the audio to listen to again afterward, as well as the notes that I take during the meetings. It's a really effective way of making sure that I don't miss anything. HOWEVER, this program will randomly decide which files it will or will not open. I now have files from meetings that I can't open, just because. The worst part is that because the note and audio are saved as a bundled file, I have no way of extracting the note I took or just listen to the audio as an audio file. So be warned, don't make the mistake that I did. This is VERY BUGGY, as in ALPHA buggy. Not even beta quality.

This is a very useful application for linking written notes to an audio recording, and then - during playback - being able to jump to any part of the audio recording where a written note was linked. I have a feeling it's going to become one of those tools that, looking back, I won't be able to understand how I did business before it was available. Add the fact that this Mac application is free... well, I have to say, I'm surprised it's free. I hope it drives downloads of their paid iOS app. The iOS app version of this Mac application has both a free "lite" version and a full version. The only difference between the two is that the lite version will only sync recordings of three minutes or less. It will still record and playback longer files, it just won't sync them. So you can really put the iOS app through its paces before deciding if the full version is worth three bucks. In my estimation, it definitely is (unless, of course, every recording you make is fer-shure going to be less than three minutes in length). The UI could be better, and I could make a long list of refinements and feature requests. But for a free tool like this, it's fine as is. I'll look forward to the developer's updates and I'll contact them via email to make specific suggestions.

Seems to have a good premise. New recording, starting, stopping pausing the basic functions are all there. As there is considerable space in the buttons area, I would like to see the recording control button graphics a bit larger and spaced out, though when you customize you can do that. The start button text needs to be a graphic like on a current consumer electronics (that graphic is the red dot append button). The start button should be the same size as the other buttons and in the immediate area. Put a button outline around the graphics and the 'start' text if you have to use the text to label the button. Develop the tagging concept a bit more and think about making it more inituitive. Also, maybe a gesture or keystroke combination to execute a control function. If you can set preferences for keyboard control, track pad, etc. and some thing that the user can vary depending on their situation. In audio applications the space bar is often used to start a recording, stop a recording and it might work here. Interesting idea and could have some real benefit if its tweaked a bit. thx