Any Sound Recorder is powerful multimedia software that allows you to record, edit, and convert audio. Typically it allows you to record sound from a microphone, the line-in jack, Internet streaming audio, or music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Real Player, Flash, and games. You also can edit audio files by cutting, copying, pasting, trimming, and using various DSP effects. You can save audio in the popular WAV, MP3, and OGG music formats. Any Sound Recorder supports the ability to directly save audio to files, so files are created on the fly in real time with no temporary files. The program can facilitate voice activation and silence detection, and has a track splitter and a scheduler. It also supports powerful scheduled recordings, an amplification effect, and various shortcuts features.

Version 2.93 build 2932 supports VOC, AU, AIF audio file formats, and fixes bugs.

Editor's review of Any Sound Recorder This utility offers a simple solution for recording, editing, and converting audio files, though the trial version's limitations may scare off some folks. The interface is reminiscent of many similar applications, with multiple icons surrounding the large waveform view in the main window. If you don't care for the default color scheme, you can customize one that's more to your liking. You can choose to record files in formats such as MP3, OGG, WAV, and AIFF, and Any Sound Recorder lets you set the bit rate and compress files in VBR mode. The program can optimize the recording process for such sources as a microphone, a CD player, or a line-in signal, and the voice-activation feature will be useful to those who plan to record memos. The scheduling feature lets you record multiple Internet radio transmissions. As an audio editor, this program is somewhat limited, only offering basic effects for fading, inverting, reverting, normalizing, and applying an echo feature. However, this program's biggest downfall is its 60-second trial limitation, which might limit its usefulness in certain scenarios. If that doesn't bother you and you don't need fancy effects or filters, you'll find Any Sound Recorder a decent choice.