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In Audials, there are SOMETIMES NO [ Record ] buttons anywhere on display in the Audials program presentation.
And oddly, for me, Audials started playing a song when there were no [ Record ] buttons in view anywhere.
So that’s why I at first suspected that Audials just automatically records anything playing.
Hey, if I can’t click [ Record ] anywhere, not even on a song I see, a song that is playing, a song I am hearing, right now, then how else could Audials record anything unless it was always recording automatically?
Yeah … no.
Audials does NOT record anything automatically.
Audials does NOT even record automatically anything you listen to through Audials.
In Audials, there is SOMETIMES a [ Record ] button in the middle, up top.
In audials, there is also sometimes a [ Record ] button in the middle, down below.
And, of course, sometimes, there is neither.
There may be [ Record ] buttons elsewhere in Audials, I haven’t dug deeper.
Both [ Record ] buttons that I found are unrelated to the song showing in the lower right corner … in the lower right corner where there is NEVER a [ Record ] button, but only a [ Play ] button.
Why “play” something if I cannot “record” it, Audials?
I can use ANY web browser to PLAY Internet radio, no need for Audials just to PLAY Internet radio, and I can use multiple tabs or multiple browsers to play multiple Internet radio stations simultaneously ( oh yeah, THAT’S diversionary fun ! ).
AND it’s possible to have a song showing in the lower right corner of Audials that is or is not playing in Audials.
AND it’s possible to have a song showing in the lower right corner of Audials that is or is not recording in Audials.
AND it’s possible to have another song playing in Audials that is not showing in the lower right corner in Audials.
AND it’s possible to have another song recording in Audials that is not showing in the lower right corner in Audials.
— So, it’s possible to see things in Audials that you can’t record,
… and it’s possible to record things in Audials that you can’t see.
Clear yet?
I was listening to and recording Nina Simone singing “If You Knew” when it showed me Dionne Farris “I Know”.
You can’t write this stuff.
Wanna listen to Ed Sheeran while looking at Frank Sinatra?
Audials is your game then!
I also found ways to change the middle panel presentation in Audials to show me a list of what I have listened to ( not necessarily what Audials recorded ).
From there I can right-click on a song and select to search.
I did not test searching within Audials because I was afraid to interrupt a recording in session.
It also offered to search off-Audials.
This seemed to work, but searching Google went to the equivalent of “I’m feeling lucky” — in my test, Audials Google search opened up the home web page of the artist, not a Google search result.
So there’s a lot buried in Audials.
Sadly, much of what I need to see in Audials in order to understand and control Audials is buried in Audials.
That said, I have let Audials fill a directory with songs ( or parts of songs, I do not know, yet, if I remember correctly, Audials awaits second recording of songs to find and replace parts where the announces talked over the song ).
I will let other non-Audials programs try to identify and organize whatever Audials recorded ( free Musicbrainz Picard and free MP3Tag and so on ).
I’ll use free AbelsSoft YouTube Song Downloader and other free resources to get the rest of any new artist’s songs, but it’s nice to listen to new ( to me ) stuff on Internet radio, time-shift it so I can listen later, review a list of titles and artists, and shop outside of audials from there.
I use a lot of stuff that I cannot recommend to others ( DOS Debug is an example ).
Audials can be useful, I just don’t have high expectations of it.
Audials is for our entertainment, it’s not intended to support our career promises and financial security.
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