Recording Radio on PC

Lee_Howden

I'm looking for a new method to record Radio feeds from the Internet and that can be converted to a format playable on an ipod.

I've previously used Audacity which used to tie the PC up whilst a recording was in progress as it captured every sound it heard. Also, when the conversion went through to mp3, the files did sound a little distorted in places.

Another method I've tried is using Stream Transport to capture the radio feed. This worked perfectly up until a few weeks ago as it has lost the feed mid way through the recording.

Ideally I would like a facility that will capture a radio feed with very good sound quality on the end product and that can be left running for a while as sometimes I like to record a feed when I'm not near the PC.

Any suggestions that are different from the above will be greatly appreciated.

Im_just_careful

http://www.screamer-radio.com/ for a PC.

Give it a go. It might well do what you want.

MP3 streams would need no conversion to use on an iPod.

If you have an iPod Touch you might like the "Discover" application.

It lets you upload ripped streams to the iPod without iTunes.

Alternatively for the iPod touch Fstream or Pocket Tunes (not free) may be what you want.

alanrowell

The usual suspects are

Radio Downloader
Get iplayer

Or you can see if it's a podcast on itunes

A.Penny.Saved

If it's from the UK and available on Freeview or FreeSat then why not use a program such as DVBViewer to record the transport streams via a TV card and then convert to the format you want. It will not tie up your PC and will produce audio in the same quality as it was broadcast.

This won't work for foreign Radio stations.

googler

I use a Squeezebox Touch, along with running SB Server on my PC. The output from the SB Touch is fed to a hard-disk recorder, the Alesis ML9600. I edit on the Alesis, write to CD and import the CD to mp3 (if needed) with Exact Audio Copy (EAC). A different approach, involving two standalone units as well as the PC. Not the cheapest solution either.

The only thing this doesn't give me is timer recording. I use a Freeview HDD/DVD recorder for that.

fenlander_uk

Radio Sure

rrf494g

Just a thought . . .
I use audacity with the soundcard set to "stereo mix out" so that anything being played on the computer can be recorded. You say that the MP3 sound file from audacity is distorted. I don't have that problem. Perhaps, either the sound card is poor or the conversion software is primitive - I use AC3filter and Lame (both free downloads). It could be that any method of recording would have problems if sound card/software is the problem.
regards

vale46_2

if you listen to shoutcast type stuff

streamripper open source
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

you listen to radio it rips each song etc to mp3


Streamripper first connects to the stream in question, this happens over TCP (not UDP). For Shoutcast-style streams it finds the "meta data" or track separation data (defined by a meta-interval), and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated.

The data is buffered back about 10-30 seconds. When a track has changed, it goes back through its buffer, decodes the mp3 data in that buffer then looks for a silent point of the audio. It uses that silent point as a place to separate the tracks.

pedrothefish

plus 1 for radio downloader

DREA_2

I use vlc (videolan) for this its perfect

Mr_Toad

I used to use a program called Anubis to record radio.

http://www.anotherurl.com/anubis/AnubisRecorder.htm

I haven't used it for ages but it was an excellent bit of software.