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Thread ID: 63832	2005-11-24 04:46:00	Recording off the radio	Greven (91)	Press F1

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406993	2005-11-24 04:46:00	What hardware & software would I need to record off the radio to a mp3 file? I quite often miss large chunks the classics show that Radio Hauraki plays on sunday mornings & repeats in the evening. I would like to record the show for later playback on my mp3 player, but still be able to listen to the parts of it that are on while I am around (so running a cable betwwen the headphone jack on my radio & the line in of my computer is out).	Greven (91)
406994	2005-11-24 04:57:00	The ideal solution (and probably cheapest) is to buy a cheap little radio (about $5), and use a cable to plug that into the line-in of your computer. I have recorded "bits" off the radio by using an old walkman, and plugging the line-out from that into the line-in on my computer. You can record from that using a program like Audacity or similar. There's an interesting free program I discovered too called Krystal Audio Engine, which might be worth investigating.	somebody (208)
406995	2005-11-24 05:00:00	Surely you can both record and put the sound out through the sound card's speakers.	Graham L (2)
406996	2005-11-24 08:44:00	Greven, for several months now I have been recording National Radio AM and FM, occasionally other stations. Before National Radio came to our town on FM (only recently), I had a small radio tuned to NatRadio AM, feeding the earphone output into my WinFast TV-FM tuner (in the PC). WinFast has a great feature: automatic recordings - this turns the PC on (if left in Standby mode), records the program then turns the PC off or into Standby or leaves it on. WinFast gives you the option of recording in mp3 format, or a variety of other types of files. Now that NatRadio is on FM here in the Wairarapa, I no longer use the small radio (with the battery eliminator since it was left ON at all times). I probably only keep 10% or less of what is recorded, editing only the bits I want to listen to or to keep in a Radio Archive and sometimes even putting it on a CD to listen to later using an mp3 walkman (don't yet have an iPod or equivalent) either through earphones or hooked up to the car stereo system - great for long trips. BTW, I had been wanting to set up my PC to record radio for over a year and finally got around to doing it. Although it seems a fiddle to set up, it actually is not too complicated and I wish I would have done it long ago.	Strommer (42)
406997	2005-11-24 08:56:00	I use Total Recorder (http://www.highcriteria.com/) for recording to MP3's - worth a look :)	juicytree (4858)
406998	2005-11-24 19:17:00	I use Total Recorder (http://www.highcriteria.com/) for recording to MP3's - worth a look :) Looks good, Juicy, and cheap. Since there are no editing features on the Standard version, this could be achieved using a freebie audio editor. From the web site: Features of Total Recorder found in both the Standard and the Professional Editions include: * The ability to directly record sound played by other programs (e.g. RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, WinAmp) including live Internet broadcasts. This feature is unique to Total Recorder and is not available in the vast majority of other sound recording programs. Total Recorder does not depend on a "record-what-you-hear" type of sound card to implement this feature. Follow this link for more information. * The ability to record from any sound card input line, including microphone, line-in, CD, and DVD. This feature allows recordings to be made from cassettes, LPs, CDs, your home stereo or an MD player. Follow this link for further details. * A Scheduler for automatic recordings where Total Recorder will activate, record, save the recorded file. * Convert almost any audio format to WAV format (plain or compressed), WMA, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC formats.	Strommer (42)
406999	2005-11-24 19:38:00	Surely you can both record and put the sound out through the sound card's speakers. I don't have any speakers. The line out from my sound card goes to my stereo.	Greven (91)
407000	2005-11-24 22:25:00	I don't have any speakers. The line out from my sound card goes to my stereo. That's even better. Wind it up and educate the neighbours. :D	Graham L (2)
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