RecordNow 8 Premier

RecordNow 8® Premier is the easiest, most flexible tool available to manage, share, edit and organize all your music in one application. Now you can convert old LPs and cassettes to MP3 and easily create music mixes and personalized playlists! Archive your digital media and other critical files; reliably copy music, data, photos, and movies onto DVD or CD; access all your digital media files from the integrated Media Manager; and create disc labels, CD/DVD case inserts, booklets and more!

Music

Take your music to go; capture and convert Internet music streams into MP3 & transfer them to your MP3 player
Easily rip music CDs into MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC, and AC3 file formats
Automatically add title, artist, or genre tags to your music tracks with MusicID
Convert your old LPs and tapes into MP3 digital format in a few mouse clicks with the LP + Tape Assistant
Fine tune your audio and eliminate pops, clicks and hisses from your audio tracks
Compile your favorite music in various formats & adjust recording volume for a consistent listening experience

Burning

Simple drag-and-drop interface makes backing up your data to disc a breeze
Easy category selection makes archiving simple
Archive your data to and from local or networked HDD
Back up to CD or DVD discs - including DVD+R DL (Double Layer) discs

Burning & Copying

Reliably make disc copies of your existing music, data, photo, and video discs
Easily Copy DVDs and disc images to your HDD

Media Manager

Easily access media files stored on any UPnP-enabled device on a home network
Easily access media files stored on any PC connected to a home network
Access a single, unified view of all media stored on a host PC or PC on a home network
"Smart Monitoring" monitors the PC for any new media files & automatically updates the Media Manager
Archive the entire content of the Media Manager onto a data disc

DVD

Create personalized disc labels, DVD inserts, and booklets - while you burn
Photo Index smart object makes it easy to add a photo index for quick identification of a disc
Calibrate your printer to take the guesswork out of printing disc labels and inserts
Choose from dozens of professionally-designed templates or create your own with full-featured text editing & design tools
Print labels directly on disc with supported printers and burners

Video

Task assistants provide step-by-step guidance allowing you to complete complex or popular tasks quickly and easily
Tighter Integration between all the relevant audio, data mastering, and archiving tasks

Minimum System Requirements:

Microsoft® Windows XP Home/Pro/MCE (Service Pack 2) Windows XP Pro x64 Edition, or Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or later)
For burning music and data discs:
- 500 MHz Intel® Pentium III or equivalent; 128 MB RAM
For DVD, slideshow or video authoring:
- 1.2 GHz Intel® Pentium III or equivalent; 256 MB RAM
For real-time MPEG-2 capture and burning:
- 1.6 GHz Intel® Pentium 4 or equivalent
1 GB of free hard disk space for typical installation of all components
1 GB of free hard disk space for every 5 minutes of video for video capture
Up to 9 GB of free hard disk space for copying DVDVideo* discs
1024x768, 16-bit color graphics card. 24-bit or 32-bit true color recommended
DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics card
QuickTime 6.4 or greater for playback of m4a files
CD-ROM compatible drive
Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher

Optional:

For burning: multimedia compliant CD or DVD Recordable drive
For audio: 16-bit Windows compatible sound card and speakers
Internet connection required for registration, product updates, sharing or downloading content, emailing and CDDB support (to retrieve CD artist, album and track information). Any charges incurred are the responsibility of the user
For video capture: OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire card (for use with DV camera) or video capture device
Floppy disk drive required for disaster recovery