FightinFueler wrote:
Hi Musikone. I'm still happy with the AGC function on WavePad. Been using it for over a year now. In my opinion, everything is completely level on the quality of sound after I use the AGC. I do not like the ups and downs of music where I have to constantly fiddle with the volume control. You quoted "music that is broadcast via FM with an appropriate dynamic range can be recorded to CD", .......can you elaborate on that, please? I can't record FM radio to a CD where the DJ is going to talk at the beginning of the song and talk at the end of the song and not be able to record the complete song without interruption. And second, I have so many out of print songs FM radio will not play anymore.
If you know something about recording FM radio type music to a CD (complete), I'd like to know more about that. I definitely agree with you though that FM radio is the best way to go and is more clear than anything. If there is a software program you know out there that does that or some type of program out there, please let me know. That would be outstanding!! 
Thanks for your input my friend.
Mark (FIGHTINFUELER)
I believe that I can answer your concerns in the points that you have brought up here. But before I do this, I need to know whether you wish to record just a single FM station (in one recording session), or whether you wish to flip through the FM dial and select one station after another while continuing within a single recording session. Tell me which it is.....
And second, I do _not_ burn a CD directly from the FM input signal. I use WavePad to edit out the extraneous material (your "DJ" talk or my commercial inserts, station hype, classical music "moderator" stuff that I am not interested in, etc., etc. But to be able to do this, I have to first record the FM signal to a .wav audio file. So I don't believe that I am using any special process that is conceptually any different from that which you understand. However, as I have said previously here (but you may not have been around at that time) in this WavePad forum, I do _not_ use WavePad for recording the FM signal. Rather, I use Golden Records, which is also a Swift Sound product; you can download it in a trial version. After I record this signal in .wav format using Golden Records, I _edit_ it with WavePad (which is, after all, an editor) to remove all of the superfluous material that I do not want, just as you remove the junk that you do not want.
The problem here is of course to get that FM signal into a .wav format. So to continue with this discussion in an intelligible form, please answer the question with which I began this post. This will allow me to get straight to the heart of this issue. I think that I know why you are doing what you are doing, but I will not conjecture until I get your answer to this basic question.
Musikone
(who also lives in California, by the way)
