TL;DR: I find DRmare v1.4.0 from Shenzhen Pinlian Electronics Co Ltd to be a wasteful distracting diversion.

Missing:
– MP3 settings like variable bit rate,
– edit icon names and opening parameters within the DRmare program screen, such as “open Google with what parameters/link”, such as a particular audio file link?

When I click “Google” it says “Google is running now, do I want to close and relaunch?” and only offers yes, or cancel, there is no “continue with already-opened Google tabs” option … in other words, I’m now presuming that DRmare needs to launch a program in order for DRmare to record from it … so if in my “normal” browsing sessions, I suddenly want to record something from within Google while I’m browsing and when I open a 34th tab with some neat audio, then it’s too late, I should have started with DRmare first, and loose all this typing?!?

I have no real ( or successful ) idea what this software is supposed to do, it seems to offer to watch my browser … but my browser is not where my “audio” files are.

Let me review the promise: “… DRmare Audio Capture is an all-in-one audio recorder to capture and convert any sound from all applications on your PC as MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, and M4B with high quality retained …” ( yet the default MP3 recording setting is “small file” not “high quality retained”?!? )

Hmm … I’m guessing that IF I had audio files that I could not convert and move to listen to elsewhere, such as for listening on another device, because they were DRM-locked to one device and are not movable, THEN this software would “listen” in real-time on the one locked device, and make a non-DRM-copy file, perhaps even intelligently identifying the audio track and MP3 ID tags, album art, lyrics, and so on ( otherwise, if it’s not retaining or recreating file information … ).

In realtime, that is,
– if I have an audiobook that takes 8 hours or 20 hours to “read”, then it will take 8 hours or 20 hours to convert,
– if I have 1 song, or 1,000 songs, then it will take the time of 1 song, or 1,000 songs, listening in realtime, to convert.

Got it.

On their website, they promise “… You can open multiple processes to record songs together [ record multiple songs simultaneously ] to save your time. They won’t interfere with each other …”.

How do I open multiple iTunes or Windows Media Players or ufo-audio-book players?

That holds promise IF I ca find a program where I can open multiple copies … perhaps open 24 copies of free IrfanView ( ? ) to separately play 24 chapters of an audiobook at the same time … yet, somehow, I do not expect that will actually provide an advantage, considering I’d expect to have to do a bunch of work myself to reorganize the results.

Nope.

Once DRmare opens a program, the main DRmare window disappears, and I cannot open another program to record from, I cannot open multiple copies of any program to record from simultaneously.

And tag wise, sadly, F.U.B.A.R. extreme, DRmare took this file being played:

– C:\Audiobooks\Amy Stewart 2013 The Drunken Botanist, Unabridged\001 – The Drunken Botanist Intro.mp3 2,297 KB artist Amy Stewart 96 kbps 44,100 MHz 3:14

… and saved this file:

– C:\Documents\DRmare Audio Capture\Converted\Nightingale Way – Romantische Nächte – Edinburgh Love Stories 6 , Kapitel 92 4,283 KB artist Samantha Young 256 kbps 44,100 MHz 2:16 ( yes, truncated )

Wow, very inventive.

Yes, they are the same contents ( up to where DRmare cut off recording ), I just listened with headphones to verify the accuracy of the first file, and DRmare’s misidentification of it’s own copy.

Did the original audiobook introduction have background music that DRmare tried to look up separately from the information from the program and file actually being played?

Nope, voice only.

I was anticipating thinking that IF there is no other way, THEN DRmare would seem to offer promise, just requiring patience, and ardent attention, but only IF DRmare intelligently labels everything about the copy file, THEN this is better than general-purpose re-recorders / screen-recorders / PC-recorders … BUT the berserker WAG Wile Asp Guess that DRmare made at the name of the file being played, and the inexplicable truncating and not re-recording the entire file …

IF this has no MP3-tag smarts, and or cannot “know” what it is listening to by looking at the information inside the program playing the file, does not read and grab the original information from the file being played, THEN this is nothing special, in fact, I find DRmare to be a wasteful distracting diversion.

I have NO audio files OF MY OWN that are protected by DRM, so I’ll just use a ( free, all-purpose ) file converter to go from FLAC or M4A/M4B to MP3 – as an aside, my favorites at the moment are free [ MediaHuman Audio Converter ] and [ FlacSquisher ], which can intelligently recurse directories and make copies in the same place as all originals found, and are tunable for MP3 qualities.

BUT I HAVE A NEED:

I do have thousands of DRM-protected audio files from inherited devices ( as we collect files from the gathering pile of ancient devices, especially from people around us who suddenly die, especially in CoVoD-19 times ), but I cannot even play them at all without the dead-person’s “keys”, so DRmare Audio Capture is not helpful there ( and of course, Apple is no help ).

Conclusion: I find DRmare v1.4.0 to be a wasteful distracting diversion.

I hope the programmers at Shenzhen Pinlian Electronics Co Ltd join us here in dialog, and I look forward to v2 … though I feel like I’m a beta tester, and this is really v0.1.4.0, and incorporating our feedback would only produce v0.2 beta, awaiting further exploration in the hands of end users.

I also look forward to other user’s experience, especially if anyone find DRmare functional and competitive.
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