Posted by brianp on 12/15/06 16:27

Hi,

I am trying to legally record what goes out my sound card so I can play
it in my car. I found TUNEBITE which alleges to do just this and
thought I would try it. Here are my results:

Recording speed: The claim is at least 4X recording speed. Neither I
nor anybody on their support web site can get it to work at more than
1X.
Size: The Audio Book I am recording is 81 MB. The size of the MP3 is
406 MB, over 5X bloat (and no, it's not a .WAV file).
Sound quality: The first 10 seconds sound OK. The rest of the 5+ hours
is completely silent as far as I can tell.
Tech support: Unless you can read German, there is none!

My system is 100% mainstream:
FX-60 CPU
4 GB OCZ RAM
Asus A8N32-SLI mobo
EVGA 7800 GTX/256 video
Dual Raptor 74, RAID 0 system drive
Win XP, latest patches
Norton ISP 2007
iTunes 7 latest

I don't know to get technical support or ask for a refund. Fortunately,
I paid with Paypal and intend to have them unpaid for gross
misrepresentation of an egregiously defective product.

I just find myself wondering whether Audible is behind this web site.
Offer people the promise of being able to fairly use the content they
have purchased only to technically frustrate them until they give up.

Avoid tunebite like the plague!

Brian

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