Real Audio Stream

[T-Maaster]

Q: Is it possible to burn a Real Audio Stream onto a CD ? If so how ???

[Gezd]

It can be done. You will need to hook up your PC to an external recording device, eg minidisc. Record the stream onto this, then get a lead to connect it to your PC's mic input.

Now you need to get some software e.g. Soundprobe, Goldwave (I think these come with the CDROM on Computer Music mag), set your soundcard's record to Mic, and record the mindisc containing the your stream at 16bit, 44.1 KHz.

This now gives you the *.wav which you can burn onto CD.

To be honest I havn't actually burnt a wav onto CD yet, but I recording some of my mixes to wav files.

Good luck.

[T-Maaster]

What if I just ran it from the aux output on the laptop through my mixer back into the microphone line on the laptop, will that work ?

[T-Maaster]

I have Soundforge BTW

[Xelpmok]

try it and see/hear ;)

[djneo]

ummmmmmm yeah try it...


There is an easier way... lots of recording software has the option of recording "what you hear" as opposed to a certain input, which means whatever is going through the soundcard at the time ie. your audio stream...

If you have a soundblaster, then the bundled creative recorder does this...

[Tasty]

Hi There,

I use Total Recorder (www.highcriteria.com). It will record anything going through your soundcard, straight into a 16bit 44.1khz (mono) WAV file. Easy to setup and easy to use.

Take note that it will install emulators, and request you use them as your preferred device drivers when not using T.R. Just choose your normal drivers and check your 'only use preferred device options' - this will do the trick.

However, recording the Real Audio stream as a decent WAV file won't help the fact that most streams are very low quality, so don't expect CD quality output, even after tweaking in your favourite editor......

Hope this helps.

HarTBeaT. :)

[mungo]

connect it to your PC's mic input
warning this may damage your soundcard, check with the instructions before connecting anything other than a mic to an input labeled "mic". These inputs are usually on a 10mV sensitivity and the PC ones also supply 5V to the mic to power it (like a pov phantom power). As most sound cards in the creative or lower category have all the A to D's on one chip this procedure could destroy all of them and possibly the external device as well.

The loopback recording function is the easy way to do it but if you have a decent external recorder a bounce from it could be easy. Of course you should have a CDR component unit then there would be no need for any of this stuffing around.