Audials can scan and record music from Spotify, Soundcloud, Deezer, Amazon, Apple Music, Napster, video sharing websites and many other online sources. It does not matter whether you record form a web player or a PC software. Thanks to the fingerprint-based song recognition, Audials can save songs from almost any source as separate files.
If a streaming service is not preconfigured as a tile in the Music Streaming view, you will be able to record it by clicking the Other Source button.
Features
Record music streaming in individual music pieces
- Record all major streaming services
- Highly optimized for Spotify, Deezer, Napster, Tidal, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Soundcloud, and many others
- Fingerprint-based song recognition allows recording of any source
- Support for recording via sound card and downloading
- Records locally installed software or web-player
- Saves individual, labeled songs
Highest quality of all recordings and downloads
- Recording: Exact clipping at start and end of song, no post-processing required
- Recording: Support for optimal recording level, including level meter, dialog instructions, auto-detection and much more
- Downloading: Automatic selection of the best audio track
- Loss-free recording or direct download for optimum quality, depending on the source
Save music quickly
- Downloading: Super fast, as only the audio track is loaded
- Recording: Makes players such as Spotify playback twice at 5x the speed, thus reaching 10x the speed
- Processing of any number of downloads in parallel
- Instant display and availability of all finished recordings
Find and save all music
- Searches all major music services
- Monitors all > 100,000 radio stations in the world, finds all songs using clips
- Structures and combines search results and shows this in the discography of the artist
- Instantly save all songs
- For music videos, optionally save the audio track or various video formats
- Automatically determines the best version, offers alternate versions simply by clicking
- Optimizes the music selection by song or music video
- Optionally finds karaoke videos (without vocal track, but with lyrics shown)
- Search sources can be expanded with community plug-ins
Music selection and discovery
- Direct search for artists, songs, compilations, music genres, and radio stations with intelligent suggestions
- Discography by albums or top hits for convenient access
- All artists shown with photo
- Supports compilations, samplers, and best-of albums (all songs are searched)
- Display of best matching songs for artist, song, genre, or radio station
- Filter by time span or popularity
- Display of best matching artists for genre, artist example, song, radio station
- Audials Charts – regularly provided, hand-picked best-of lists
- Find matching compilations for genre, artist example or song example
- More than 100 genres / musical styles, hundreds of top artists for each genre
- “Music Zoom”: Map calculated using artificial intelligence with over 300,000 artists, sorted by genre, similarity and popularity
Personalization and music tastes (“Styles”)
- Define several own music “Styles”
- Narrow down by favoring example radio stations
- Narrow down by favoring artists
- Show radio station suggestions that match the style
- Show music that matches the style (songs, artists, compilations)
- Easy distinction with colors
Get music in the background: Music Wishes
- Wishlist (consisting of songs, albums, artists) are automatically filled in the background (added to the music collection)
- Simultaneously monitor tens of thousands of radio stations based on your preferred music and record the desired songs
- Simultaneous web metasearch through all major portals such as YouTube, Soundcloud, and Spotify
- Filter by audio file, music video, or karaoke
- And: Identification of best studio version based on lexical analysis and comparison with discography database
- And: Finely adjustable criteria in terms of which hits are preferably recorded automatically
- Optionally record only radio stations that offer perfect cut quality (no post-processing required)
- Optionally load multiple versions of a song, show only the best version (duplicate management, see the media library), subsequent swapping if necessary
- Optional display and consideration of pre-existing versions of songs
- Definition of strategy on how results from various sources (radio, music websites, etc.) are mixed
- Any number of wishlists can be defined and fulfilled simultaneously
- Access to Audials community wishlists
- Precise job definition: Number of desired versions per song, artist, album, or overall, per data volume or time, number of simultaneous edits
- Detailed display of progress and status of fulfilling requests for each song
- Powerful filter prevents inadvertent recording
Get your music collection automatically (Music Bot)
- Automatic creation of a music collection for individual music tastes
- Definition of music taste through examples of artists and/or radio stations (“Styles”)
- Set the desired number of songs (e.g. 1000)
- Set the structure of the music collection: Few artists with lots of songs, many artists with top hits, etc.
- Set the content of the music collection: More like the examples, broader, etc.
- Instant preview when settings are changed: What collection would result
- Fully automatic creation in the background from all streaming services, websites, and radio stations
- Detailed display of progress
Music finishing (Tags, Lyrics, Cutting)
- Automatically sets ID3 tags and album covers for recorded tracks
- Automatic Internet search for lyrics of recorded songs
- Automatic classification of recordings by genre
- Powerful in-place editor allows convenient adding of additional tags, also during recording
- Normalization of all recordings for uniform volume
- Optional adjustable fading (e.g. for cutting points of radio recordings)
- Powerful audio editor allows retroactive fine tuning of radio recordings
Reads and import almost all Audio/Video files
- Imports all major audio formats to convert (over 40 formats)
- Also converts protected audio files by playing them and automatically re-recording them at high-speed
- Converts protected audio books at high speed using the virtual audio CD driver
- Optimized audio book mode with output as a single file or as individual files for each chapter
- Imports all major video files to convert (over 45 formats)
- Converts protected video files by playing them back and automatically re-recording them from the screen
- Extracts audio track from the video as an audio file
Create audio and video files in all major formats
- Export audio formats: MP3, WMA, WMA Pro, OGG, FLAC, WAV, M4A, AAC, AIFF, AU and CAF
- Export video formats: WMV, MP4, MPEG4, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MKV, MOV, H.264 and H.265
- Pre-defined universal profiles for easy configuration
- Over 100 optimized device profiles enable optimum video output for all major device classes
- Pre-configured profiles for all current major smartphones and gadgets
- Optimizes files for PC, Mac, Android smartphone & tablet, Apple iPhone™ & iPad™, Xbox™ & PlayStation™ game consoles and many others
Fine-tune with individual profiles
- Format editor enables creation of individual converter profiles
- Adjustable bitrate settings (same as original file, exact, maximum), VBR supported
- Adjustable frame size (same as original file, halved, exact, maximum)
- Adjustable frame rate
- Separate settings for audio and video tracks in video files
High-performance converter
- Optimized for maximum video quality
- Precise adjustment of whether to favor output quality or smaller file size
- Supports stereo and 5.1 audio
- Convert as many files you like at the same time
- Batch conversion with automatic shut-down option after task completion
Copy DVD – Copy protected and unprotected DVDs
- Reads and converts unprotected DVDs directly
- Simple, semi-automatic selection of feature film and language
- Copies protected DVDs by playing them back and re-recording
- Converts any DVD to the correct format for PCs, tablets and smartphones
Convenient management/music player
- Convenient player with playlist management functions and display of song lyrics
- Music Universe enables visual browsing (via artist photos) of similar artists in your own collection
- Various displays available according to artist, genre, etc.
- Configured information columns for beginners and experts in media collection view
- Automatic reloading and display of artist photos
- High-powered search of entire media collection
- Playlists of similar artists and genres generated automatically
- Supports links to online videos (e.g. from Vimeo) in playlists
Video and media management
- Manage media other than music, including movies, series, video podcasts, radio show recordings, audio podcasts and many more
- Choose between visual display (thumbnail) and column view which displays all file properties
Edit music and video files
- Automatic online search for missing ID3 tags and album art
- Automatic online search for song lyrics
- High-performance tag editor, easy drag-and-drop tagging available
- Audio editor enables post-editing of music files
- Ringtone editor creates ringtones from songs
- Integrated movie search engine searches the Internet for tags for movies and TV series
High-performance data management
- High-performance management of duplicate files. Only the best version is displayed by default – alternate versions can be shown at any time
- Clean-up mode: find all files with multiple versions – ideal for deleting duplicates
- Work with as many music collections as you want
- Dual music collection’ display enables flexible transfer to and from a wide variety of file locations
- Optional display of physical file structure for the media collection
- Flexible rule-based fine-tuned control of file names/folders for all created files
- Flexible rule-based re-sorting of file names/folders for individual files or the entire music collection
Perfect interaction with smartphones and tablets
- Optimized for ‘filling up’ Android smartphones & tablets as well as Apple iPhone™ & iPad™
- Dual-device display enables flexible transfer to and from a wide variety of devices and file locations
- Copying in the background, status bar displayed for devices
- Audials Anywhere enables remote access to PC music collection (with transfer function) from an Android smartphone
Powerful import and export functions
- Pre-configured for all major cloud services. Upload, download, synchronize, use in playlists
- Audials Anywhere enables remote access to the media collection of another PC or smartphone (i.e. use a PC as a private media cloud)
- Import and export playlists in .pls and m3u format
- Burn audio and mp3 CDs and DVDs
- Conveniently create and wirelessly upload individual ringtones for cell phones and smartphones
- Directly export to media player software (iTunes, Winamp, VLC, Windows Media Player)
