VB Recorder 1.4.3

What's new

• Start with Windows. A new option in Settings, off by default. VB Recorder stays portable: if you move its folder, it points Windows to the new place the next time it opens.
• Countdown before recording. A new option in Settings, off by default. Three low beeps, one per second, and the recording starts on the high one, like the start of a race. Pressing Stop during the countdown cancels it.
• New global hotkeys to play the recording (or stop playback) and to delete it.
• Bit depth. WAV and AIFF can be recorded in 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits, and FLAC in 8, 16 or 24 bits. The default is still 16 bits.
• More sample rates, from 8000 up to 384000 Hz: 16000, 24000, 88200, 96000, 176400, 192000, 352800 and 384000 are new. The rates above 48000 Hz are for WAV, AIFF and FLAC; MP3, OGG and OPUS go up to 48000 Hz.
• Shutdown is blocked while recording. While a recording is running or paused, Windows asks before shutting down, restarting or signing out, and shows why. If you choose to shut down anyway, the recording is closed properly.

Translations

• Mono and stereo are now translated in every language, instead of always showing "stereo".
• In Simplified Chinese, "channels" now uses the audio term (声道).
• All the new texts are translated into the 27 languages.

How to update

If you use version 1.4 or later, VB Recorder will offer this update by itself when it starts: just say yes.

Otherwise, download VBRecorder-x64.zip for 64-bit Windows (most computers) or VBRecorder-x86.zip for 32-bit Windows (it also runs on 64-bit Windows), extract it wherever you like and run VBRecorder.exe. The lib folder must stay next to it. Requires Windows 10 or later.