Burn CD from radio

patchwork_cat

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help me. How can I burn a CD from Radio 7? My daughter loves story tapes, they help her drift off - even after story time and I would like to burn one of Radio 7 as she hasn't a DAB radio in her room.

Thankyou
Patchwork cat

tryingtosave_3

Although I’ve not done this myself – I’m just looking for my first DAB radio now - I think you have four options:

(1) If your DAB Radio has "line out" [a connector hole that looks very much like a headphone socket, but might be either ringed in green or says "line out" above/below it] you should be able to connect it either a PC with a CD burner or a stereo's CD burner.

(2) Buy a DAB kit for your PC - you can get a couple of products in the 80-100 GBP range that turn your pc in a receiver, and burn onto a CD this way (you'll have to check it will work - this functionality could be disabled by the software for copyright reasons or something).

(3) Use the BBC7 internet broadcast. The beeb are putting more content online, you can certainly listen online, but not sure if you can record somehow?

(4) Finally, if you considering buying something new, there is at least one DAB radio on the market that records onto SD Card - Pure Digital BUG-W digital alarm radio - so you might be able to transfer that onto CD. You can also get other ones that record onto an internal hard drive - time shifting the programme.

If you don't already have a cd player for your daughter, it might be cheaper to get a low-cost DAB radio - this thread has some pretty cheap ones on it. They often have sleep functions so could be set to turn off after 30/40 minutes etc.

I personally think the online broadcast option is worth looking at, but I’m not sure how this could work.

Still, hope this helps.

Whitefiver

Hi,

You could Google for HardDiskOgg which is a freeware application that will turn anything going through your soundcard into a compressed Ogg file, (or Mp3 if you have the codec).

Run the BBC7 net radio already referred to, and away you go.

There are other ways involving streambox vcr, but I will leave you to research that.

Regards.

White.

charlieheard

tryingtosave wrote:

(3) Use the BBC7 internet broadcast. The beeb are putting more content online, you can certainly listen online, but not sure if you can record somehow?

The BBC have started putting a small amount of content online that you can download, but as a rule you cannot download programmes from the BBC as they are streaming audio. The good news is that there are a variety of programs, some free, that allow you to record streaming audio. The bad news is that they take whatever comes over your internet connection, so you can't get better quality than you would hear online.

Take a look at this page on the PC World website, where someone answers this very question with a list of recording programs