RecordIt is a recording app for Windows and Mac OS Classic created by Iomega. Its main goal was enabling customers of their Zip drives to rip CDs and make the tracks fit inside one Zip disk (100MB).

That feat is achieved encoding the tracks to MP2 files. The compression technology was licensed from QDesign (of QDMC fame) and it is, indeed, a quite decent MP2 encoder (unlike their MP3 encoder, which is just horrible).

I could only get the Windows version to install on Win9x - it will not work at all on WinNT and variants. The interface is quite garish. In case you must know, the stars for quality mean: 4 stars = 256kbps, 3 stars = 192kbps, 2 stars = 112kbps, and 1 star = 24kbps/22kHz.

It is worth mentioning the program is not really an encoder, but a recorder - which means it will not accept .wav files for input. It will only encode directly from an audio CD (and, sadly, with no CDDB support), line-in, or a microphone. It also features a player to play back the encoded files, but it's as ugly as the encoder program.

The RecordIt page at Iomega can still be visited at the Internet Archive.


Date: 1997-12-17
Version: 1.1
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32 (Win9x only)
Download: RecordIt.zip - 2.838kB
Submitted by Geert from Belgium

Date: 1998-07-01
Version: 1.3
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic (PPC)
Download: RecordIt_Install_PPC.sit - 1.659kB