One more thing, it did NOT create a Capture List while YouTube was playing ...

Edward, if it did not create the capture list it did not succesfully hook into the programs sound subsystem. Try using firefox....
Or Internet Explorer if you must capture something. I note that unless you permit the Tuneskit CaptureBHO to load within Internet Explorer it won't capture *anything* in Internet Explorer. Cannot get it even launch Microsoft Edge at all!

Veron, you will need the spotify desktop program and not the spotify app from microsoft store. This type of desktop program cannot launch metro apps at all let alone capture their audio. Sorry.

Ben, it does say "for Windows" so it's solely created for this, I'd supposed once they have done this they'll built up to be able to do more than one browser, they might have been on the early stage as Chrome, Firefox etc required more complex programming so I assumed they want to see your reviews and your tests with Windows before proceeding further in broader range. Why do you think they're using Giveaway of the day?

Wolfie,
The interface has a Icon for Chrome and Firefox. When the Icon is pushed the appropriate program is launched however nothing is recorded. I do have a windows box.

ricohflex, short answer, it depends on the individual country laws. In Germany f.e. you have the right for a private copy (Privatkopie), as long as you use official sources and don't use the material for monetary gain or other similar endeavours (filesharing comes to mind), it's pretty much legal. A long answer i can't give because i'm not a lawyer with expertise from all countries. Just take Spotify as example, as a free user you get lower bitrate streams and have advertisements compared to Premium users, so there is no real "not paying" for something you don't get anyway in the first place. To answer the last question, they often don't need to because you really only get certain features and functionality if you pay up

ricohflex, How would they know you were recording? You are streaming as far as they are concerned. They don't have access to your computer. But you could ask mommie and see what she says.

ricohflex, I'm not as bothered about music sources taking action , as I am about the ethics of effectively stealing someone's work. Someone had to write the music and lyrics of the song that this software encourages you to download "without buying". That person maybe makes millions, but it's far more likely that they make next to nothing. For every Ed Sheeren, there are thousands of singers who never get a break.
So someone gets lucky and writes a tune that people like. So this software allows you to grab it and pay the writer absolutely nothing. Great job!
Imagine if Paul McCartney had released his first single and received nothing in royalties - how might that have changed the music scene around the world?
If you can't afford the singles or albums, then enjoy them on the radio between the ads. If you can afford it, support the creativity of the artists.

ricohflex, in most cases if you read their terms and conditions of use they do prohibit the recording of streams or use of 3rd party programs to download their content for offline use so there is a contractual obligation to not use programs like this and the service is well within its rights to ban your connections access to the service including your banning your account and if the site has a DRM protected licensing model the banning of your account could/probably would invalidate all DRM licenses purchassed from that provider too.
It is unlikely they will start legal procedings under copyright license infringment laws due to the cost/reward ratio but they could make an example of an end user if they so chose to... but that could come with the risk that the end user could win the criminal case under the fair use doctrine... and set a legal precident which would encourage other members to rip content against the copyright license permisions and the terms of service.
Even ripping the content fromm a subscription streaming service in an unathorised or prohibited manner has the potential to get ones account banned and if they deemed the losses to be great enough they could take civil action to recoupe those losses. The reason that paying for a service does not entitle one to use unathorised downloading or capture methods is these providers have to pay a per play royalty for each time the specific tracks are streamed and if they allow end users to download the content knowingly for offline listening they will owe a larger royalty for the downloaded content that they permitted since they can no longer count the times the content is played to calculate the per play fee model they had negotiated with the rights owners agents. Bit like why GAOTD had to provide some rights protection to enforce the giveaway 24 hour slot for installation if the contributing vendor has not already got some sort of realtime license activation control in place, to protect their current business model.

Kenneth B Smith, Please do

Kenneth B Smith,

"Some of the newer devices, now don't have sound cards like once before."

It's not that they don't have soundcards -- Windows devices normally have audio chips & circuitry on the main board, so adding a soundcard or USB device is just an optional upgrade -- but rather recording from anything but the mic is often prohibited in the drivers as a method of DRM. Sometimes you can get around that prohibition, e.g. enabling recording in properties, or there are drivers that just write audio streams to a file, so you bypass the audio electronics entirely. Audio Capture for Windows takes a new & different approach, grabbing the audio stream from the app that plays it, rather than getting its input from something Windows lists as a recording device. If you want to record something from a mic or line-in OTOH, you can't select those as inputs, but need to have an app actually play that input, and grab the audio from that app.

mike, i'm also using my onboard-chip. I had to boost a little bit with additional software to get a decent quality out of it but it works pretty well and i'm ok with it. A dedicated soundcard is ofc a big upgrade sound-wise but i never really ran into issues when it comes to recording, as long as everything configured checks out properly and there is no limitation of some sorts from the app that is recording.

Kenneth B Smith, if you are using wndows xp,7,8 if you right click the speaker in your taskbar select properties another window should open with all audio devices usually if you enable if disabled the stereo mix device set as default it should record from any source that plays sound on your pc because it listense to all sound devices incoming or outgoing.windows 10 though is different you right click the speaker in the taskbar select open sound settings then in the next window that pops up select the manage sound devices then in that list should be stereo mix.

mike, also don't forget that if you are using windows Vista or above and the playing program does not demand exclusive control of the audio playback device that any program can completely ignore the hardware limitations or driver limitations and record the output stream via the WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API ) like Audacity offers. It is also quite possible to hook into the DirectX sound subsystem on all versions of windows that support DirectSound and extract a digital audio stream of whatever is currently playing too. But not many audio capture products make use of that hack presumably because that is not the documented and intended purpose of the API that can be retasked to siphon off the digital stream that most developers won't take the time to learn how to do it.

Dot,
I guess they just pulled 3 years out of their "hat."

In 3 years the program will be obsolete or you will have found a better one so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Enjoy it for today.