Applian Technologies

By Bayle Emlein

Applian (Uh-PLY-un) is a small company with a suite of products that enable video and audio capture from any site. The Replay Capture Suite includes a raft of handy tools:

• Replay Media Catcher
• Replay Video Capture
• Replay Converter
• Replay Music
• Replay Radio
• Video Padlock
• Replay Media Splitter

While the Replay capture apps record in real time, they skip the buffering pauses of computer downloads. Another nice feature, Replay Music will skip items under 35 seconds. Why 35 seconds? Most commercial messages are 35 seconds or less.

 

Replay Radio allows you use your computer to pre-set the time/day of recording sessions or including daily or weekly schedules for your favorite show. The download occurs in the background so that you can continue working/playing on your computer. Unrecorded listening sessions are also easily enabled.

 

Replay Music is for music (think Spotify, Pandora). Replay Radio is for radio (WGBH, KGO). Replay Video is for (no surprise) capturing video.

 

Even if you choose to use only a few of the tools, you might be ahead by purchasing the suite at $79, rather than several separate programs. One other persuasion for buying the whole package: though each license can be installed on only one computer, each of the Applian licenses can be installed on different computers.

While tools exist to execute the functions of the Applian software, many of them involve-to summarize—a lot of user involvement. Somebody at Applian has already done the heavy lifting so we can get on to the original purpose. Still have questions? Many HowTo videos on the Applian Technologies site and live tech support if you want to be social.