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How to Save Sound to HDD?

I want to save to my HDD a file that ABC radio national in Australia plays to me in Windows Media Audio.

The URL of the page is: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/radioeye/default.htm

And the URL of the file I want played is: http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/player_launch.pl?s=rn/
radioeye&d=rn/radioeye/
audio&r=ree_20052006_2856.ram&w=ree_20052006_28M.asx&t=Saturday%2020%20May%202006

It is that 'craptown.. too good for England'  20th May 2006  listed at the head of that page.


I can play it okay. Have done many times. But I want to keep it. And I can't find any way to do that.
I've used Download Manager and I've used Streambox and Station Ripper and Easy Radio and OpD2d and god knows what.

Can't do any good with any of them.

I can't find an URL to input to these programmes before the play commences.

When I commence the play I can't get any of these progs to wake up and do an intercept.

And I can't understand why it isn't a simple matter of intercepting and saving whatever my sound card is playing when it's playing something.

Perhaps it is that simple but the software I'm using doesn't do this.

Perhaps this software is meant to save me the trouble of playing it and attempts to get it for me even when I'm away from the computer, perhaps.

Well that's fine but it's not working and I'm prepared to sit through the play. I just want to keep it.


I'm hoping the right forum with the right guys will have the answer for me.... and I'm hoping it is this one!

regards,

ab

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #1 –
Recording whatever is playing through the soundcard isn't difficult but the exact procedure varies somewhat depending upon the soundcard and the recording software. The secret lies in the soundcard mixer setting.

If your soundcard uses the Windows mixer, the correct option is generally labeled something along the lines of 'what you hear' although that isn't unvarying. You have to select this as your recording source (rather than "line in" or 'microphone' or anything else.

If your soundcard has its own mixer application, the process is the same but the labels and exact method of setting it up depend on the manufacturer.

If you have a USB soundcard, this approach may be a dead end as many, if not most, of them have no such facilities.

The alternate approach is a speciality program. Total Recorder is one such. http://www.highcriteria.com/

Yet another, somewhat different method, is to use Virtual Audio Cables, a program to direct any audio from any somewhere to any somewhere, and record in the program of your choice. This is similar to adjusting the mixer that I mentioned above but more versatile.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #2 –
Well, I myself use this cute free program called mp3mymp3 to record anything coming out of the soundcard. Despite its name, it can capture to .wav, and it has timer feature, i.e. when it should start recording and for how long.

Granted, the output is captured after the sound has passed through Windows Mixer, but since the stream I'm hearing is, to put it mildly, not that high-quality anyway (we have severely limited bandwidth here in my country), I don't really care.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #3 –
foobar2000. 
Nov schmoz kapop.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #4 –
It should be noted that this is not a 'live' stream.  There is a file stored on a server.  If you want to download the Windows Media version, this is the URL:  mms://media3.abc.net.au/rn/mod/ree_20052006_28M.asf
If you wish the RealAudio version, this is the URL:  rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/rn/mod/ree_20052006_2856.rm

Any download manager capable of handling rtsp protocol should be just fine for RealAudio version.  Likewise, and download manager capable of handling mms protocol should work for the Windows media.

A second look at the web site shows that the program is available via podcast.  This is the link for the MP3 version:  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/ree_20060520.mp3

The MP3 version seems to be the lowest sound quality, while the RealAudio version is the highest.  The Windows media version falls somewhere in between.

So, you have many choices.  Enjoy.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #5 –
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I can't find an URL to input to these programmes before the play commences.


Open the link in WMP.  Goto stat. It shows the source file, ree_20052006_28M.asx for the top link on that page.  Download that file and open it with a text editor.  It contains the following:

Code: [Select]
<ASX version = "3.0" BannerBar = "none">
<title>Radio Eye Saturday 20 May 2006</title>
<author>Radio Eye - Radio National</author>
<copyright>2006, Australian Broadcasting Corporation</copyright>
<moreinfo href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/radioeye/default.htm" />

<entry><title>Radio Eye Saturday 20 May 2006</title>
<ref href="mms://media3.abc.net.au/rn/mod/ree_20052006_28M.asf" />
   </entry>

<entry>
<title>Radio Eye Saturday 20 May 2006</title>
<ref href="mms://media4.abc.net.au/rn/mod/ree_20052006_28M.asf" /> 
   </entry>

<ENTRY>
   <TITLE>Apology</TITLE>
   <ref href="http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/apol/apol288.asf" />
</ENTRY>
</asx>


Grab the link you want and use any program that understand mms to record it.  I believe the streambox can do this, but I don't remember.  If not, just google for something else.  That should spit out the actual source file.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #6 –
Ah yes. mms streams. I remember. Back when I was still teaching computer networks in my university, we use Net Transport.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #7 –
I have a 'sort of' similar problem - I output 320 bit rate mp3 files through the QCD player with the Izotope Ozone plugin and then out to very good speakers - the end result is great warm valve-like sound - but but but - I've got so used to the sound that my car system (mp3 player through 4 good speakers and a big 4 way amp under the seat) sounds just barely ok - the highs sound too sharp and grating and the lows sound too thin and hollow

What I'd like to do is take the post qcd/ozone output, save it as a file and burn it to cd

just can't find anything that seems to easily do the trick - (I appreciate I must be missing something blindingly obvious here)

thanks for any advice

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #8 –
a program called "iRadio" can record streams (mp3/wma/aac+) without re-compressing them.

J.M.

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #9 –
Streamripper32 is very useful for shoutcast streams.
hi
 

How to Save Sound to HDD?

Reply #10 –
Quote from: pepoluan on
Ah yes. mms streams. I remember. Back when I was still teaching computer networks in my university, we use Net Transport.

I second this suggestion, Net Transport has served me very well in grabbing mms streams.  I've also found the last freeware version (1.87, available here) to be more than sufficient.