How to rip a radio stream - whaddaya need?

[gromit7]

OK. This is probably going to sound dumb, but I don't care. :blush:

I want to know how you can rip something off a live internet radio stream. I've seen many times that people have ripped mp3s of live sets on the radio. I want to do it myself coz i am playing on the radio!

At this point I can pick up radio via media player to my laptop.

Now what?

I have SoundForge, which is how I record sets direct from my mixer. How do I get the stream into sound forge?

Any advice would be fantastic. As you can tell I'm a bit of a techno-cretin. ;D

Cheers

Gromit 8-)

[scharksta]

any ole sound recorder will allow this, there are freeware sound recorders galore available on the net! They work by simply recording in parallel any sound that travells through the sound card!

[phunkdust]

if your soundcard is anywhere near decent, it will have internal loopback

double click volume control on taskbar

options > properties > recording

look in that list box, do you see somthing that says WaveOut or Mixer or something like that? if u do, check the box and hit OK

now you've got volume controls for your soundcard's recording

select the mixer/waveout one and set the volume

soundforge should now be able to record anything that comes out the speakers

i'd attach a picture but some bastard disabled IMG code.

[gromit7]

Cheers Phunkdust that's fantastic.

I did as you said and - voila! - it's working great!!

Thank you so much. :)

Gromit 8-)

[phunkdust]

ahh all in a day's work 8-) ;D

[djcz]

Im struggling here...

Ive got cooledit pro, ive got the radio stream i want to capture, i have adjusted the windows recording properties.

And im in my cooledit program. BUT I dont know what to adjust in cooledit for the program to realise that i want to record the radio stream?

H.E.L.P :meh:

[Serotone]

What you need to do in whatever recording program you use is to set up your 'device for recording' or something from the audio options/preferences window.

Say if you hvae like, 2 sound cards (or recording sources) , in the drop down box you want to select the soundcard you have the radio stream coming through. Then in the volume control/properties mixer window (set to recording like in the other post), adjust the recording level for the wave device (you should see the level meters going up and down to ur radio stream).

So What you have just done is:

1) told your recording program (cooledit, etc) that you want to use a particular sound card or sound source for recording

2) told windows what sound to actually record

Whats left is to hit record in your recording program and sit back and drink some home brew

unless I've fucked up and missed something. in that case, sue me ;)

[djcz]

thanks ser0tone buddy, Ive got it working perfectly ;D

[Pigman]

Be careful what you use your PC for whilst recording. Whilst recording some MDs a while back I carried on using my PC, now I can hear a lot of Windows 'chimes', 'pings', and browser 'clicks' in the background when I listen to them. Doh! :mad: