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Thread ID: 78345	2007-04-12 02:37:00	Recording from the TV.	Poppa John (284)	Press F1

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540334	2007-04-13 11:24:00	NO, Sky Digital radio is not on FM, that is the only way to get it and there is no more stuff needed to get this working. IIRC Open up Audacity and make sure a new fresh project is up, select line in from the little drop down box at the top right and click the record button (little round red one) click stop when you are finished. If you want to save it as an MP3 you will need to get lame_enc.dll EDIT: It would seem, then, that to download radio station music straight in to XP's My Music I will need a card of some sort. Thanks. PJ. well yes, I was assuming you wanted the Sky radio channels...	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
540335	2007-04-13 11:58:00	Any way. If I stream a radio station, to record it, do I have to go thro Audacity? I played the music but could not see any way to record it onto the computer when using WMP11. Can it be done? PJ There doesnt seem to be any way to save streamed music from internet radio (within wmp 11 anyway), perhaps theres some other software available to do this, dont know/havent tried. A tv/video capture card or any other card would not help you do this, but if it includes a radio tuner, you will be able to record normal (broadcast) radio stations directly.	feersumendjinn (64)
540336	2007-04-13 16:43:00	WMP 11 may not allow you to save those streams . . . it's a security DRM thing and I even have trouble with it and my home videos . Since there's no zone-code or DRM rights attached to my personal vids, WMP 11 just denies me the ability to save it . I went back to WMP 10 and all is well again . . but DO NOT ACCEPT ANY WDRM 'Updates" as they will surely ask for non-existent security licenses and such that you do not need nor have to save your own vids and music etc . Such is the wonderful experience I had with WMP 11 and Mr . Bill's new bedmates, the RIAA and MPAA ugly twin sisters . OK . . that said . . . you need to use Audacity (and Lame as stated above, somewhere) and then you can save any sound file in one of a few codecs: . wav, mp3, oggorbis (I don't know this one and don't use it at all) . . . etc . You MUST have the line-out (for audio) from the capture card to your sound card line-in or there's no way the audio card can save the sound from streams and such . Get the shortest wire and jacks you can find . . . they usually come with the tv/vid card anyway . If just using any outside source for the input, just jack it into the "line-in" via the correct cable type . Audacity has no real instructions I think . . . it's the Columbus method of learning how to use it . . . . "seek and ye shall find it . . . eventually" . I record in stereo, as I can separate the sound for my subwoofie and 4-channel artificially using some settings on my soundblaster gui . You can trim the file size . . the length of the captured sounds, with the "cut" icon or the delete key after you highlight the area you want to excise . You can compress all the captured sounds and see the whole file, and cut out parts and fade in and fade out, increase volume, decrease it, change pitch and speed, delete portions and paste other portions around and insert into the stream to make someone say things they never did . Fun . To access any of the command/edit lines, (they will be grayed-out until you do this) you must have something highlighted for it to work . All or part of the stream you captured has to be signified so the Audacity program has something with which to work . You can parallel record and meld the two together, blanking one source out while another takes over and all sorts of fun . I haven't found any limit to the number of parallel stereo lines one can create yet . Some people, who shall remain nameless, record in single channel, thus doubling the files capacity . Kinda sucks though to hear all the sound re-channeled to one (1 . 0) and the nuances of 5 . 1 are all lost . At the lower line, near the very bottom of your screen will be a sort of "crawl" with a little info on it . . . like how many hours/minutes/seconds of record time you have left, the source of your sound, the speed or the timbre or pitch and all sorts of interesting info . I have a dedicated partition just for Audacity raw files, where I can go and visit them and play with them as I see fit . I later commit them to mp3 and move them in the MP3 area that WMP 10 uses for it's file area . My available time for recording is over 11,000 hours I think the last time I looked . With areas that big, I sometimes just let Audacity run and record shows that I cannot have time to hear at broadcast time, and review them later . I can even play them in fast-search speed with no loss of pitch or tonal quality, looking for interesting pieces I want to save . Kinda like a pod cast set-up . Have fun . Ask questions . . . I will try to answer but I am not expert level yet . . . . we can all learn from this . :nerd:	SurferJoe46 (51)
540337	2007-04-13 20:57:00	Any way. If I stream a radio station, to record it, do I have to go thro Audacity? I played the music but could not see any way to record it onto the computer when using WMP11. Can it be done? PJ There doesnt seem to be any way to save streamed music from internet radio (within wmp 11 anyway), perhaps theres some other software available to do this, dont know/havent tried. A tv/video capture card or any other card would not help you do this, but if it includes a radio tuner, you will be able to record normal (broadcast) radio stations directly. The easiest way to do that is to use VLC media player... WMP was designed so it can not rip anything like that... How to save a stream with VLC: 1. Open VLC (if installed, if not install it and repeat this step) 2. Click File, Open Network Stream (or if it is a playlist select file) 3. Enter in the network stream details (if it is a playlist, this step is not necessary) 4. Under Advanced Options tick save/stream and click settings 5. Tick File and select place to save it and file name via Borwse (also ticking Play Locally will play the stream as it comes in) 6. Tick Audio Codec and choose desired codec and bitrate Click OK till you are back at VLCs main screen 7. Click play if it hasn't already started playing. 8. Click stop when you feel like it... :p	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
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