Automatic Track Splitting During Record - DAK's Song Stalker Technology

Automatic Track Recording, Saving, Naming & Numbering

Drew's Song Stalker Tutorial
Separate Tracks As You Record

This is the Holy Grail of recording. Get separated tracks as you actually record. And the Song Stalker is the best of the best I've seen. As you record and as the Song Stalker sees the silence between tracks, it automatically closes each track it's recording and begins a new track.

Plus the Song Stalker will automatically save your tracks in the folder of your choice and not only does the Song Stalker automatically number the tracks for you, but it lets you assign a prefix name so you'll easily and effortlessly know what you've recorded and where it is. It's actually a separate program that's now built into new DAK Wave & MP3 Editor/Recorder Pro.

Music on Records, tapes and the Internet is usually separated by 1-2 seconds of silence. That silence is what separates one track from another.

The Song Stalker continuously monitors the Noise Floor of your music and looks for the silence that connotes a track separation. When it finds the silence,

It creates a New Track.
It Names Your Track With a Prefix
And It Numbers your track for you.

It's like a robot that essentially presses a virtual stop button, names and numbers the track, clears the screen and starts recording a new track. Wow, it does a lot. And it does it all without you.

It's very sophisticated. But in short it looks for silence. It uses very sophisticated algorithms to determine what silence really is. And it does a really good job.

It often reaches a totally automatic success rate of 7 or 8 tracks out of 10. But have no fear. You can separate the few remaining tracks using the Wave Editor itself or the all new Track Tracker technology that's just been added to the DAK Wave & MP3 Editor/Recorder Pro. See below for more on track splitting theory.

Using the Song Stalker is super easy and super fast. And the recordings will be flawless digital copies of whatever you want to copy.

OK, Let's Automatically Record and let the Song Stalker Separate Our Tracks, Name the Tracks and Number our tracks for us on its own..

Launch the Sound Stalker Program

It's actually a separate program. Just launch it and you'll have the full power of automated recording.

Easy Automated Recording

It's totally automated and you'll control your recording just the way you want it. You'll choose where you want to automatically put the tracks you record and what Prefix you want them to have. Then it numbers all your tracks automatically for you.

Arrow 1. Choose a prefix. What's a prefix? If the Song Stalker just numbered your tracks 1-10, the next time you record another LP, Cassette or Live Internet Broadcast it would also number those recordings 1-10 and you'd have no idea what was what. So by using a prefix, you'll never forget what you've done.

So, use an album name or an artist name as your prefix and it will then be automatically recorded using that prefix. For my example here I was using a Limeliters album named, In Concert. So my tracks read, InConcert1, InConcert2, etc. Then next time you can choose another prefix. We've really tried to think ahead to make this incredibly easy and automated.

Arrow 2. Choose a folder to put the tracks in. You can have all your tracks from all your recordings stored in one folder or you can have a separate folder for each album. Or anything in between. It's up to you and it's easy to do. You're in total, easy automated control.

Arrow 3. What do you want to record? Here I've chosen Line In so I can copy an album. Below we'll show you how to record from the Internet, microphone or anything connected to your computer. If you can hear it you can record it.

Arrow 4. Click Record. Wasn't that easy?

The default settings for all the automation will probably work fine, so whenever the Song Stalker hears silence, it will automatically create a new track for you using your prefix and store it in the folder of your choice. Plus, it will number it automatically too. It's great.

But there's so much more control that you have.

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Control Over Your Recording.

Every computer, every LP and every other source is different so we've given you the ability to easily control all the variables of your inputs. And I think you'll find that this is the most adjustable recording system ever.

I find that it actually finds about 7 or 8 out of 10 of your tracks automatically. And those that it doesn't find, you can simply separate using the Wave Editor itself or the Track Tracker program that's also included.

Total control is yours. We give you 3 ways to adjust the track sensing capabilities of the Song Stalker.

Arrow 1. Your computer and whatever you are recording has a base sound floor level . A record has the grove noise, a cassette has hiss and even an Internet broadcast has some inherent noise. In short, silence isn't really silent. So we given you control of your nose floor. Just set the Silence Level to somewhere between 30 and 50 for most occasions and you should be all set.

Arrow 2. How long are the silences between your tracks. On LPs, it's usually about 2 seconds. On Internet broadcasts, it's often 1 second. Just set the New track after X seconds of silence to fit your source.

Arrow 3. What if the silence runs too long? No problem. If you get to the end of the record and you don't take the stylus off, or to the end of a cassette and you don't stop the recorder, many recorders will just keep creating tracks. Well, the Sound Stalker is smart. Just set the Discard Tracks shorter than X seconds (2-5 is usually fine) and you won't keep creating tracks where you don't want them.

Arrow 4. Recording Volume. Well this is easy. Just use the Graphic Display to set your input volume.

Arrow 5. You'll see the Number and Length of your track as you record and you'll see the Song Stalker reset to 00:00 each time a new track is started.

Even More Control Coming

Easily Set Or Change Your Formats Too.

OK, you probably won't use this section very often, but it's here so you can create your tracks exactly as you want them.

Arrow 1. Do you want to record Wav or MP3 files? It's up to you.

Arrow 2. Are you recording in Stereo or Mono?

Arrow 3. What are you recording? If it's music, use 44100. That's the industry standard. A few MP3 jukeboxes support 48000. It's a high quality sound. But it's not supported by most programs and it's not supported by Audio CDs. But this is a top of the line program, so we support it. Voice over the Internet is recorded at 22050 mono. So we support that too.

Arrow 4A-4B. We have 6 different types of Wave Form Display to let you watch your music as you record. Just click the one you like best. I've put pictures of them below.

And What About Live Internet Streaming Audio?

RECORD LIVE FROM THE INTERNET
Record Anything & Everything From The Internet.

If it's legal to record it, the Song Stalker can record your streaming audio broadcasts flawlessly. And, separate the songs into tracks. It's terrific for this. This is probably its best use.

OK, let's record from the Internet. Some of this is repeated from what's above, but it's easier for you to see if I show it all to you here too.

Arrows 1A/1B. Choose a prefix so you'll know what the tracks are later and a folder to keep them in. Just like we did above.

Arrow 2. Choose "What You Hear" or "Stereo Mix" from the pull down menu. This is what you use as your source to record Live from the Internet.

Arrow 3. Usually when you're recording from the Internet, it's MP3 audio anyway, so you might as well choose to record in MP3. Of course if you're going to burn a CD later, then switch to WAV. Either way you'll get a flawless copy of exactly what you hear.

Oh, and I didn't number it but the New track after X seconds I usually set to 1 for Internet recording because they often don't leave a full 2 seconds between tracks.

Arrow 4. Click Record.

That's it. Everything you hear on the Internet can be flawlessly recorded.

Special Note: You should check to see if what you want to record is restricted. Just because you have the capability to record anything doesn't mean you should. If it says don't copy it, don't.

That's really it. Recording is easy. The results are flawless. And separate tracks are great to work with and the best way to listen to your music from now on.

Wow, Here Are Your Named, Numbered, Separated Tracks

There's nothing to it. Just open the folder where you asked the Song Stalker to put your tracks and you'll see all your tracks. They've been Named with the Prefix you chose. They've been numbered so you know which they are. And They're all in the folder you chose too so you never have to go looking for where they are. It's your complete automated music copying system.

Oh, and your Icon Image graphics may look different because it all depends on what your default music player is. But what won't be different is the Track Name and Number. It will be exactly what you want. And it was all done automatically for you by the new DAK Song Stalker Technology.

All that's left for you to do is enjoy your music.

A Little Fun & Graphics Too.

You have your choice of 6 recording displays. It's fun to watch your sound as a spectrum as you record, and the colors are great.

I'd like to tell you that there's a really good reason for 6 choices, but the truth is I like to watch my music and I got the programmer to throw these in.

So it's fun, it doesn't cost extra. And you get to see your music as you record. Pretty neat. That's it. You now know everything about the new Sound Stalker way of automatically creating new tracks as you record.

Enjoy. . . .Drew

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A note about track splitting theory. The Song Stalker is good. Very good. Probably the best there is. But, the technology has now gone about as far as it can go and there are several reasons that this technology really can't be 100%, 100% of the time.

If you're recording records, you'll have scratches and other tracking noises that can be in the grooves that are irregular enough to prevent the Song Stalker from identifying the silence between two tracks. Plus, if you hear a click during the 2 seconds between tracks, so will the Sound Stalker and it will start counting over again so you'll miss separating that track.

On some records the singers talk through the tracks, so there's no silence at all. And sometimes when you're recording Internet Audio they don't leave silence between tracks, or they mix two tracks together. Finally sometimes you'll find that there is a natural silence of a second or so in the music and the Song Stalker can interpret that as a track too. So, in short I wanted you to know that in my opinion this marvelous new technology will automatically separate about 7 or 8 tracks out of 10 and save, name and number them too.

In Short, IT REALLY DOES A FANTASTIC JOB. OK with all that I've said above, why have the Song Stalker at all?

Because it is the best. It will separate most of your tracks. And there are lots of times especially in Internet recording where recording for hours and hours is better when you separate the tracks rather than get one really large file. Plus, if your records and other sources are as quiet as they are supposed to be, then the Song Stalker can work all the time. It's easy. It's fast. And you'll really enjoy using it.

Oh, and did I mention that it's 100% digital and the sound will be flawless? And I guess the other thing is that it's fun to watch it automatically go through its sequence. It's like having a personal robot doing the recording for you. Record, Stop, Start Name. It's a kick and it's really, really good.

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