Enhanced Sound Card Driver for Replay Radio 5

The Enhanced Sound Card Driver option for Replay Radio has many benefits, and a few drawbacks. This page tells you what to expect when using this option, as well has how to use it.

Click here to Download and install the Enhanced Sound Card Driver.

IMPORTANT: The Enhanced Sound Card Driver requires Replay Radio 5.1 or later.

Advantages of the Enhanced Sound Card Driver

The Enhanced Sound Card Driver works by mimicking a sound card on your PC, trapping sounds, and then sending those sounds to the default sound card. In most cases, this works perfectly. This recording method is the same one used by Replay Radio 4.x and earlier. We've brought it back by popular demand for some of the advanced recording capabilities, which outweigh some of the disadvantages.

When recording with the Enhanced Sound Card Driver, you'll enjoy these bonuses:

  • Cleaner, distortion-free recordings.
  • Support for more sound cards.
  • Sounds from other programs, including system noises, are eliminated from recordings.
  • The Mute While Recording option will work on all PCs.


Disadvantages of the Enhanced Sound Card Driver

Here are some problems you may run into:

  • Recording is more processor intensive. Recordings that would work well using other Recording Sources may skip, or the VU meter and recording timer may not update as they should. Using a lower quality output (try FM quality or AM quality instead of CD quality) may increase performance.
  • Some unexplainable side-effects of these drivers have been noticed. Some programs may not run or install properly when the drivers are loaded.
  • Won't support Windows Server 2003.
  • Can't be active when using Skype.


Using the Enhanced Sound Card Driver

Click here to Download and install the Enhanced Sound Card Driver.

Once you've installed the Enhanced Sound Card Drivers, you can use them by choosing Enhanced Sound Card Driver as a Recording Source as follows:

  1. Open Replay Radio.
  2. Click on a scheduled show to edit, then click Edit Show.
  3. Click the Recording tab.
  4. Next to Recording Source, you should see "Enhanced Sound Card Driver" as an option.

This option is available no matter what Sound Card is set in Replay Radio's settings.

If you're going to be using Replay Radio's Quick Record feature, be sure to load Replay Radio before the playback program you are recording from.

IMPORTANT: The Enhanced Sound Card Driver option requires Replay Radio 5.1 or later.


Uninstalling the Enhanced Sound Card Driver

If you find the Enhanced Sound Card Driver does not work for you, you can uninstall it using Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.