recording streaming audio

maleman

Can anyone help, it has been mentioned here before but I cannot find the messages.
I want to record to my hard drive, streaming audio as provided by BBC7 (Hancocks half Hour). I have read that a facility exist within windows XP!
How do I do it?
Thanks in advance.

Dead_Eye_Jones

I use a prog called "Audio Recorder for Free" Soz dont have link but it is on https://www.download.com site, just search for it! Plenty of others on there too...

bingo_bango

Audigy is another free tool to 'grab' streamed audio.
Ensure you have the permission of the rights holder before doing so though!

gaming_guy

bingo_bango wrote:

Audigy is another free tool to 'grab' streamed audio.
Ensure you have the permission of the rights holder before doing so though!

isnt that a creative labs soundcard?

bingo_bango

It is the name of a Creative soundcard, but there is also free software (possibly from Creative, I'll give you that) of the same name. I've used it for a while, but I don't have any creative hardware.

gaming_guy

creative mediasource- thats what i use

superscaper

bingo_bango wrote:

It is the name of a Creative soundcard, but there is also free software (possibly from Creative, I'll give you that) of the same name. I've used it for a while, but I don't have any creative hardware.

Are you sure you don't mean Audacity? I've never heard of Audigy other than in the context of Creatuve sound cards.

maleman

Futher to my query, I have tried 'Audio Recorder for Free' its simple and easy.
But i have a problem still, whilst I can hear the program via computer speakers, I cannot find a way to select the sound source and get it recorded, any idea's?

bingo_bango

superscaper wrote:

Are you sure you don't mean Audacity? I've never heard of Audigy other than in the context of Creatuve sound cards.

Apologies.... I was in work earlier, and just got home to find that it is Audacity.

That said, it seems the Audigy software is available for download as freeware anyway. Not entirely sure if does a stream grab though. Tucows has more info.

robin58

I use a programm called Hidownload.

Available from http://www.streamingstar.com/

I've been using this to actually download from BBC7 over the last year.

Only problem is it only will download files ending with the real extensions eg .rm ,ram etc

It will not download some of the other files that the BBC use on their other radio stations to stream because of a different file entension structure. But these are the more current shows.

Most of the local bbc local stations still use the older extension types and will download with this program.

Hope this helps.

Lakeuk

I use Net Transport, download loads of BBC listen again programs, convert the to mp3 and then there put on the mp3 player to listen in the drive into work