Total Recorder is an easy-to-use and powerful audio recording software with wide editing and sound processing capabilities. It can directly record sound played by other programs (e.g. RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Skype), including live Internet broadcasts and both parties of VoIP (Voice over IP) calls. This feature is unique to Total Recorder and is not available in the vast majority of other sound recording programs. The program also lets you record audio from cassette tapes, LPs, DVDs, CDs or through a microphone connected to your PC. It is possible to save recording in any of supported sound format: WAV, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and APE.

Built-in editing capabilities allow you to cut, trim, and merge your recordings. All the editing is done without decompressing/recompressing the sound data to prevent the unnecessary loss of the quality and save time. The ability to convert sound files from one format to another is one of the most powerful features of Total Recorder. As opposed to majority of recording software, Total Recorder records sound from another software in digital format directly without a conversion.

Total Recorder contains advanced features such as background recording of an Internet stream in MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis formats without decoding and re-encoding, robust scheduling and splitting facility, extended naming options, timeshifting, cue files supporting.

You can also enhance Total Recorder functionality with some additional add-ons that can be used for sound enhancements, mixing operations, integration with iTunes/iPod , real-time transfer of audio being played back or captured by Total Recorder over a local network or the Internet, and for other purposes.

New in version 8.2 build 4100: ability to listen to audio being captured from a sound board, enhanced functionality of Send to iTunes/iPod add-on, ability to use the new Streaming Add-on, other minor enhancements.