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How-to: Edit and crop videos

With the video editor, films and series can be cut and cropped after recording. Remove annoying sequences such as intros, trailers, summaries or black bars from the video.
 
How to cut a video

1. Open the ... menu of your video and select Edit video.
2. The video editor will open. At the bottom on the left you will see a cutting icon (scissors) and a cropping icon.

 

3. Click the cutting icon. Audials then will show the video frames and the time.

 

4. Hover over the video frames with your mouse pointer and choose the beginning and end of the sequence that you want to remove. You can zoom in by scrolling to cut out the sequence more precisely.

5. Once you have selected the sequence that you want to cut out, it will be marked red. 
 

6. Click the green upper left Apply button.

Audials will save your changes.
 
How to crop a video

1. Open the ... menu of your video and select Edit video. The video editor will open.
2. Click the cropping icon.

3. Select a video frame where the black bars can be seen best.

4. Now you can change the aspect ratio of the video using the slider with your mouse pointer. The video image can be zoomed in with the magnifying glass for precise cropping.

5. Once the correct video frame section has been selected, click on the green Apply button in the top left.

Audials will save your changes.

How-to: Searching for music only in specific streaming services

Up until now you could search several music streaming services in Audials to load music. In Audials One 2022, you can specify exactly which services you want to display results from. You can also set a priority for the services.

1. Open the Load tab in the Music menu item.

2. Click the dropdown menu with the streaming services beneath the search bar.

3. Now you can activate or deactivate all the streaming services you want. If one of them is to have the highest priority in the search, move it to the highest position with the mouse pointer.

4. Search for music by entering an album, artist name, etc. in the search line.

Audials will now only display search results from services that you have activated and in the priority you specified.

You have a question regarding the Audials software?

On our support page you will find many helpful articles.

We wish you the very best entertainment with your Audials software.

 

 

 

How-to: Screen record an entire season from Amazon Video

I. Settings in Amazon Video

1. Open the settings in your Amazon Video account and click on Playback.

2. At Auto Play, click On.

Please note: Amazon's autoplay feature is only available in browsers that support the HTML5 player, such as Chrome.

II. Playback quality in Amazon Video

Choose the best playback quality that doesn't cause performance issues.

1. Play back the series.

2. Click on Options in the upper right corner of the video and choose Best at Video Quality.

Amazon automatically selects the best possible video quality.

If you experience issues like skips or stuttering recordings, choose a lower quality setting.

 
III. Start recording

Audials Video Streaming offers instructions to guide you through the necessary steps to record a video from Amazon.

1. In the navigation, click Video Streaming and Amazon Video.

2. Choose whether you want to record with the internal browser or a web browser such as Chrome or Firefox.

3. Audials will now ask you whether subtitles should be recorded. To make recording faster, turn on the high-speed recording and choose a speed. Click Next.

If you are recording in the internal player, click on the green Record now button. If you're recording from a web browser, start the series in Amazon Prime. The videos are then recognized and recorded automatically.

Results

The recording finishes as soon as Audials indicates so, and/or shortly after the video has finished playing. All detected videos are  automatically saved on your computer and listed in the upper right player after a while.

 

How-to: Create an own playlist

You have recorded songs from Spotify or other sources, but you would like to put them into a different order? You can order the songs by creating an own playlist. Like this you can also merge it with other playlists.

1. Launch Audials and switch to the Playlists menu item.

2. Click + New and give your playlist a name, for example Music Hits.

3. You will have on the left an overview of all playlists, no matter whether you have recorded them from Spotify or the ones that you have generated. You will also see Last 100 and Last 1000. These default playlists always contain the last 100 or 1000 songs that you have recorded.

Click the playlist where you want to copy the songs from, for example Last 100. Now its songs appear in the middle part of Audials.

4. Drag the desired songs from Last 100 into your new playlist Music Hits. You can open further playlists and drag the songs into your new playlist from there.

Alternatively, drag the songs from the upper right player into the empty playlist.

Now you have a playlist where the songs are ordered in the manner that you like.

 
Tip

You can also change the order of the songs in the playlist itself by drag & drop.

 

 

 

 

How-to: Order your videos

Have an overview of and organize all videos in the Entertainment view

Audials One and Audials Movie of the 2022 generation offer you an overview of all your videos. Recordings from certain streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Video, Disney Plus) are automatically tagged and sorted. But there is also the possibility to change the film tags manually:

1. Start the Audials software and switch to the Entertainment menu item.

You see on the left that the Video category is divided into Movies, TV series etc. In the middle part of Audials, you should see your videos as tiles.

2. To retag a video, click its tile so that it is shown in the lower right corner of Audials with a pencil icon. After clicking this icon, you will be able to change the tags. Your changes will be marked with a colour.

3. Click the pencil icon again to save your changes. Audials will sort the video into the genre that you have entered.

Alternatively, you can drag & drop the video into the required genre.

Retagging all videos of a certain genre

If, for example, all videos in TV series actually are movies, click the genre TV series on the left so that it is shown in the lower right corner of Audials with a pencil icon. After clicking this icon, enter the genre Movies. Click the pencil icon again to save your changes. Audials will sort all videos into the desired genre.

 
Searching for movie tags

The tags are not added automatically to recordings from certain streaming services. But Audials has a tag search feature so that you can add all information of a film or a series like actors, year, cover picture etc.

1. Open the context menu of the video.

2. Choose Search movie tags.

3. A window will open where you can enter the title of the film and start the search.

4. Choose those film tags that are most suitable.

How-to: Find and record radio stations

In the Radio view, you can listen to and record your favorite radio stations and record music from the radio by genre, country or artists. Audials cuts the songs automatically and saves them as separate audio files.

How to find suitable radio stations

You have several options how to find radio stations:

• Enter the station name in the search bar. Or enter an artist, Audials then will show stations named after the artist as well as stations that are currently playing the music of this artist.
• Go to the Genres column and select a genre.
• In addition, you can select the country that interests you in the Countries column. 

How to record a station

1. In the navigation, go to Radio.
Optional: Set the output format to Universal (MP3/MP4).

2. Navigate to the station you would like to record as described above.

3. To record the station, check the recordability symbol:

If a diamond icon appears above the station name, then this station only plays full songs.

Or three bars may appear showing the song detection rate. If all bars are white, the song detection rate will be very good. If all three bars are grey, it will be not possible to record the songs with automatic cutting. In this case you have to select Record show.

To find the recording button, just put the cursor over the station, and then click the round recording symbol.

Two icons can then appear on the radio station tile: 

The yellow icon means that recording starts as soon as the next complete song starts. If the yellow icon remains: The station's recording capability is too weak to be able to record with automatic cutting. Instead, select Record show.

If a red icon appears, that will mean that recording is in progress.
 
Results
After a few minutes, Audials finishes recording the first songs. All recorded files appear in the player (in the upper right corner of Audials).
 
Tip
If you like, you will be able to record from more radio stations in parallel. Just click the recording buttons of the stations you are interested in. 

 

 

 

 

How to record video streaming with the internal player

With the internal player, you can screen record video streaming without a web browser.

1. Go to the Video Streaming menu item.

2. Click the Netflix hint button (or the Amazon Video or Disney+ hint button).

3. Select Audials internal player from the dialog.

4. Optional: In the next window that will open, you can activate subtitles, highspeed recording etc.

5. Select a video from the internal player.

You can preset that the video is recorded from the beginning. If the selected video is a series episode, it is also possible to record the entire season.

6. Click the green Record now button and Audials begins to record the video using its own internal player.
 
Results

Audials exports the recording as soon as the video is finished. The video appears in the player on the right after it is exported.
 
Interacting with the video while recording

When Audials is recording the video with the internal player, interacting is not recommended, but if it is really needed, it can be done. After the recording has started, the Netflix UI is not shown while moving the mouse. To show the UI, a click is required. A warning appears and you need to click Proceed so that interacting with the UI is enabled.

Hide the video during the recording

If you don't want to see the video while recording it with the internal player, Audials has the option to hide it. After the recording has started, in the upper right corner there is a button Hide video. If you click it, the video is hidden while Audials still records. If you want the video to be back again, click View video down right.
 
Record the video in full screen

If you want to record the video in full screen, click the two arrows in the top right corner after the recording has started with the internal player.

 

How to find thousands of songs that match your taste in music

With the bot function, Audials automatically searches and saves songs for you when you select your favorite bands and artists or radio stations and specify the desired number of results.

1. Open Audials and switch to the Music menu item.

2. Open the Bot tab.

3. Enter artists or radio stations you find interesting. Choose how many songs Audials should record. The bot can record from 100 to 5000 songs. With the slide switches, you can also define whether the bot should search for further artists and whether the found artists should be rather well-known or be fitting to your style.

4. Click on Create collection. In the window that will be opened, you will be able to define further settings like:

• Format and versions: Should the bot search for audio files or video files?
• Sources and settings: Should the bot record from the radio or from music streaming services like Spotify, or both?
• Processing: With which speed should the bot record? 

The more settings you set, the more suitable results you get.

As soon as a song is found, it appears automatically in the player (in the upper right part of Audials One), in the current playlist. The search can be stopped at any time, and a new search can be started.
 
Tip
You can also start the search based on one of your styles. To select the style you want, click the My Favorites drop-down menu.

 

 

 

How-to: Adding subtitles after video recording

After recording a video, you can add subtitles to it with Audials 2022. For this purpose it has a built-in subtitles search engine. It finds subtitles in any language. You can decide whether they will be displayed while the video is played back. If you do not need them anymore, you can easily delete them. 

It will be necessary to set your preferred languages so that Audials will find subtitles in the language you need. 
 

How to set the default subtitles language(s) 

1. Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of Audials.
2. Select the Video Streaming Recording menu item.  
3. Click +Add to set all preferred subtitles languages. 
 

Adding subtitles to a video: 

1. Open the context menu of a video in the Audials player and click Search Subtitles. 

2. The subtitles search engine opens. Click Search. 

3. If available, the subtitles in all your preferred languages will be displayed. 

4. Download the desired subtitles. 

5. To show the subtitles in the video, click the eye icon in the right left corner of Audials and activate them. 
 
Results

When you play back your video, you will now see the subtitles. They can be removed from the video anytime if they are not needed anymore.

How-to: Have your own music with you when you are on the go

In addition to the Audials PC software, you can also use the free Audials Play app for Android or iOS. With this mobile app you can:

• transfer songs to your smartphone
• find, listen to and record radio
• listen to and record podcasts

and much more.

More information about Audials Play

 
Transferring music to your smartphone via cable

1. Go to the Music view in Audials and open the drop-down menu of the My Music tab.

2. Click on the plus icon and select the type of device you want to connect to Audials.

3. Connect the device to your PC/laptop with a cable and give the new smartphone storage a name.

4. Audials will then ask you whether a new folder should be created on the smartphone.

5. Once the smartphone is connected, you will see it in the My Music drop-down menu. Activate the Copy mode there.

6. Now you can see in Audials which songs are saved on the PC and which on the smartphone. Hover over a song. By clicking on the smartphone copy icon that appears, the song is copied to the smartphone.

 

Results
Now all needed songs can be accessed from your smartphone.

For Android smartphones, there is an alternative method to access music:
 
Transferring music wirelessly to an Android mobile device

To quickly access the music you recorded on your PC from your smartphone, start the Audials software on your PC and the Audials Play app on your mobile device. If you are logged in on both devices with the same credentials, you will see your music recordings on the smartphone.

 

 

 

Our tip: Screen recording

The screen recording tool is the most reliable tool when it comes to video detection. All that it needs is a video picture on your screen, accompanied by an audio signal. This makes recording from screen a good fallback tool if a video cannot be detected or recorded by direct recording.
The Audials screen recording tool records the output of your computer screen. It is not as automated as the direct recording. For example, the controls of the video player are recorded whenever they are visible.
 
How-to: Recording from screen

1. Open Video Streaming in the navigation.

2. Click Other Source / Screen Recording and then click Screen recording.

3. Play the desired video in your web browser.

4. Set up the recording area, which is indicated with a blue rectangle.

5. Pause the video and rewind it to the beginning or to the point you want the recording to start from, respectively.

6. Click Record and then play the video.
 
Extra tip:  

With the Record screen, auto detect function, Audials starts the recording automatically after the video starts and stops shortly after the video has finished playing. In manual mode, only with Wait for sound to start activated, the recording stops automatically after the video has finished. You can also stop the recording yourself anytime.
 

Our tip: Create and fulfill a music wish list

In addition to recording music streaming from Spotify, Amazon Music etc. or from radio stations, Audials can also automatically record music wishes. Search for songs and albums, add them to the wish list and Audials will record them for you. 
 
Adding wishes

1. Open the Music section and click the Wish tab. If you have not done so, activate Add so that you will be able to create a wish list.

2. Type your wish into the search box. For more inspiration, switch to the subtabs Artist, Playlist & Compilations or Related Artists.

3. If you want to add a specific song or album to the list, select the desired item and click +. It will be marked with a magic wand icon and will appear on the list.

4. Repeat step 3 to add multiple wishes.
 
Fulfilling your wish list

1. Click Activate list... next to the wish list.

2. Choose the desired settings to fulfill your wish list.

• For example, should Audials record audio files or music videos?
• Should Audials record from radio stations as soon as the song is played or from music websites?
• How fast should the music be recorded?

3. Confirm the settings with Activate wish list.
 
Results

Audials will fulfill your wishes as soon as they are available in the selected sources and records them. The progress of the recording can be tracked in the wish list or the lower part of the wish view. All recorded items will appear in the player.
 
Extra tip: Have your music wishes fulfilled in the background

You can activate the list even if you have not finished your wish list. Audials can search for music in the background while you are still adding more wishes.

 

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Our tip: Record several films automatically one after another

Audials 2022 has a new batch recorder that makes it even easier to autoamtically record a list of films. Search for films directly in the Audials software, add them to the batch recorder and record them in Audials. 

1. Go to Video Streaming in the navigation.

2. In the upper part, go to Batch recording and click on +Add movie to queue.

3. Select Netflix, Amazon Video or Disney+. If you have not logged in to the video streaming service, you will asked to do so in Audials. Now you can browse the streaming provider in a similar way as you did in the browser.

4. If you have found the video you need, play it back for a few seconds and click the button Add to queue.

5. After you have added all films, click the Play & record queue button.

6. Select the internal player in the next window. 

7. If necessary, you will be able to activate the subtitles, high speed etc. in the next window.

8. After you have clicked the green Start button, recording will start.

Result:
Audials then opens the URLs automatically and records the movies one after the other. After that, Audials saves the recorded files automatically on your computer and lists them in the player after a short time. 

 

Our tip: How to find radio stations you could like

You can display those radio stations in Audials that fit your music taste. You can do
it very easily with the styles feature. Favor artists and/or radio stations with
this feature and Audials will suggest to you suitable radio stations playing similar
music.

1. Open the Radio menu item in Audials One or Audials Radio.

2. Open the ... menu near the search bar and click New Style ... .

3. Enter the desired style name in the dialog window, for example Rock. The new style will be displayed in Radio, marked with a star.

4. Open the context menu of the style and click Edit Style... .

5. A dialog window opens. Enter artist names and/or radio stations there.

Result:
Audials will show you radio stations according to your new style. 

If no radio stations appear, please activate the suggestions for the styles:

1. Open the options (in the lower left corner in Audials).

2. Click on Radio & Wish and then on Manage stations, More settings.

3. Activate Show proposals, too.

Now you should see suitable radio stations for each of your styles.

 

 

 

How-to: Organize your videos

Have an overview of and organize all videos in the Entertainment view

Audials One and Audials Movie of the 2022 generation offer you an overview of all your videos. Recordings from certain streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Video, Disney Plus) are automatically tagged and sorted. But there is also the possibility to change the film tags manually:

1. Start the Audials software and switch to the Entertainment menu item.

You see on the left that the Video category is divided into Movies, TV series etc. In the middle part of Audials, you should see your videos as tiles.

2. To retag a video, click its tile so that it is shown in the lower right corner of Audials with a pencil icon. After clicking this icon, you will be able to change the tags. Your changes will be marked with a colour.

3. Click the pencil icon again to save your changes. Audials will sort the video into the genre that you have entered.

Alternatively, you can drag & drop the video into the required genre.
 

Retagging all videos of a certain genre

If, for example, all videos in TV series actually are movies, click the genre TV series on the left so that it is shown in the lower right corner of Audials with a pencil icon. After clicking this icon, enter the genre Movies. Click the pencil icon again to save your changes. Audials will sort all videos into the desired genre.

Searching for movie tags

The tags are not added automatically to recordings from certain streaming services. But Audials has a tag search feature so that you can add all information of a film or a series like actors, year, cover picture etc.

1. Open the context menu of the video.

2. Choose Search movie tags.

3. A window will open where you can enter the title of the film and start the search.

4. Choose those film tags that are most suitable.

 

How-to: Searching for music in specific streaming services

Up until now you could search several music streaming services in Audials to load music. In Audials One 2022, you can specify exactly which services you want to display results from. You can also set a priority for the services.

1. Open the Load tab in the Music menu item.

2. Click the dropdown menu with the streaming services beneath the search bar.

3. Now you can activate or deactivate all the streaming services you want. If one of them is to have the highest priority in the search, move it to the highest position with the mouse pointer.

4. Search for music by entering an album, artist name, etc. in the search line.

Audials will now only display search results from services that you have activated and in the priority you specified.

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How to record video streaming

1. Open Audials and go to the Video Streaming menu item.

2. Click on the streaming service you want to record, e.g. Netflix

3. In the next window you can choose all the settings: recording speed, quality and the player (built-in player or web browser).

4. As soon as you click Record, Audials is ready for the recording. Play back the video now.

Audials automatically detects the video and saves it to your PC. You can see the finished recordings in the top right corner of Audials or in Video -> My Videos.

You start a music recording in a similar way:

How to record music streaming

1. Open Audials and go to the Music Streaming menu item.

2. Click on the streaming service you want to record, e.g. Amazon Music.

3. In the next window you can choose all settings: recording speed, quality and the player. Audials not only records from the app, but also from the website of the respective streaming service.

4. As soon as you click Record, Audials is ready for the recording. Play the music now.

Audials automatically detects the music and saves it to your PC as music tracks. You can see the finished recordings in the top right corner of Audials or in Music -> My Music.

 

Our tip: How to remove ads from videos

With Audials, you can easily remove ads placed by the new free video streaming service Amazon Freevee or by Paramount Plus.

1. Go to the Video Streaming menu item as usual and click on the respective streaming service.

2. Under Ads you have two options: Select Skip if you don't want Audials to record the ads. If you choose Mark, Audials One will mark the advertisements during recording so that you can remove them later at any time.

3. Select any other required settings and click Record.

Audials One 2023 will record the video for you and save it on your PC. You will see the finished video in the upper right corner of Audials or in Video -> My Videos.

To remove the marked advertisements from your recorded video, hover with the mouse pointer over it and open the video editor by clicking on the pencil icon. Go to the Video tab and click Cut out all ads.

 

How to record lots of perfectly tagged songs 

In Audials One 2023, mass recording of radio stations now offers you even more options! First: If you know the genre of your radio stations, you can enter it in Audials before starting the mass recording. This ensures that your music collection does not get mixed up after the mass recording, because there are many songs that can be assigned to several genres. Secondly, you set the desired quality in the filter to only get complete songs and avoid duplicates.

1. In the Radio menu item, choose a genre and optionally a country that interests you.

2. Click Mass recording. Enter your desired genre in the dialog that opens.

3. You can also set here whether the recording should stop after a certain number of songs and how many stations Audials One will record at the same time. In the filter settings you can define that damaged songs or songs without tags are not recorded.

4. Start the mass recording.

Audials One 2023 will record the music tracks, cut them and tag them. You can find your new recordings in the top right corner of Audials or in Music -> My Music.

 

 

With Audials One 2023 you can not only remove annoying ads, but also add subtitles if required, perfectly synchronized and in any language. Audials either saves the subtitles as a separate layer so that they can be removed at any time, or renders them directly into the video.

Have you ever tried recording music streaming remote controling the streaming app? In addition to recording from the streaming service's app or directly from the browser's website, this is the third recording option. All you have to do is enter the URL of the album or playlist in Audials One and start recording to get all the songs on your hard drive. Depending on the streaming provider, high-speed is also possible.

 

Our tip: How to save subtitles

With Audials 2023 you can add subtitles to your videos, either during or after the recording. First you should enter your preferred language.

How to set the default subtitles language(s)

1. Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of Audials.
2. Select the Video Streaming Recording menu item.
3. Click +Add to set all preferred subtitles languages.

Saving subtitles during video recording

1. Open the Video Streaming menu item in Audials.
2. Click Netflix, Amazon Video or Disney+
3. In the next window, set which subtitles you want to get. There are three options:

• Search: Audials searches the web for subtitles in your default language. They are saved as a separate layer and can be removed later.
• From Netflix/Amazon/Disney: Audials adds subtitles directly from the respective streaming service. They are also saved as a separate layer and can be removed later.
• Render to video: Choose this method if you are going to play the subtitles from the streaming service. Audials will then render them into the video so that they can no longer be removed.

4. Select any other required settings, such as the recording speed, and start recording in Audials.

You can see the finished video in the top right corner of the player or in Video -> My Videos.

Adding subtitles to a finished video

1. Click the pencil icon of your video in the player of Audials and open the Subtitles tab.

2. The subtitle search engine opens. Click Search subtitles.

3. Download the desired subtitles. You will be able to remove them later if you do not need them.
4. While palying the video, click the eye icon in the lower right corner to show the subtitles.

Translating subtitles

If no subtitles are available in the language you want, download any subtitle, hover over it and click the binoculars icon. Choose your language and Audials will automatically translate the subtitles.

 

Our tip: How to record music streaming by remote control

Remote recording means that you copy an album or playist link from the streaming service's app into Audials to record all the songs. In addition to Amazon Music and Tidal, the remote control now also works for Deezer.

1. Start Audials, open the Music Streaming menu item and click on the desired streaming service, for example Deezer.

2. Select Remote control Deezer app in the next window.
3. Copy an album or playlist link into the search bar of Audials.

4. Click the insert icon next to the search bar. Now click Download and the songs will all appear in Audials. If you don't need some of them, they can be removed.
5. Now start recording in Audials.
Audials One will record the songs. You will find them in the upper right player of Audials or in Music -> My Music.