Recording Shows Online

[Michael1973]

I seem to recall that some of you record shows off the internet. I find myself suddenly needing to do this with little advance notice. I'm looking into Audacity, but not fully sure how it works. For starters, is there a time/size limit or can you record, say, a 4-hour show as one file? Also, can you set a recording time in advance (like a DVR) or do you need to manually start recording when your show begins?

Thanks for any help you can give me. I've been intending to look into this for months and now suddenly I need to do it tomorrow.

[sammeyers]

Michael it can record up to as many hours as you want as long as you have room on your hard drive. However the longer you record the longer it will take to save. but it does work well. You can't schedule it to start you have to manually do that

[Michael1973]

Thanks for the replies. After much putzing around, I not only got Audacity to work but determined that it can be set to begin recording like a DVR. I'm going to be testing it out for real tonight.

[DJ Particle]

Nov 6, 2020 12:55:52 GMT -5 sammeyers said:

Michael it can record up to as many hours as you want as long as you have room on your hard drive. However the longer you record the longer it will take to save. but it does work well. You can't schedule it to start you have to manually do that

I use Audio Hijack for Mac, and I set it to split the recording into 2-hour segments to offset the "longer it will take to save" issue.

[shadster]

I know Audacity records but havent really looked into 'How'. Does it record using an input? say a Mic jack? Or does it record just hearing whatever audio is playing on the puter?


I use an external media recorder/player. Im currently using a Archos device that captures audio and/or video. It records in .wav file or .avi files for video (not ideal). So i'll play say a Rick Dee's Countdown on his "app" using my phone, or usually my tablet, an use the media recorder to capture the audio. Rarely ever use it to grab video though. I would use 1 of my Hauppauge's for that in order to capture in HD. BUT I also have this:
www.solidsignal.com/manhattan-usb-audio-video-grabber-162579?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=162579&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3u6rqdyu_AIViorICh0U3wLgEAQYCiABEgIw3PD_BwE Which will do the same thing, play audio from any device such as a phone, as long as phone/tablet has a headphone out jack (I think those are getting rarer an rarer these days) an record it onto a laptop. I prefer using my older tablet, that way audio doesnt get interupted by texts/phone calls/notices etc. (course u'd need a rca-->mini cable)

[skyseth]

Rarma radio allows you to record internet radio stations by scheduling the start and end of the shows , and you can record 3 or 4 stations ( maybe more depending on your intenet speed ) at the same time.
You can record in Mp3 and others format .

[Michael1973]

I used Audacity for a while, but then it stopped working and I don't know why. On my desktop it just gives me errors if I try to do any recording. On my Chromebook, it acts like its recording but the resulting file is totally silent.

I haven't had much luck finding anything better. Ideally, I'd like something that can record whatever is playing on my computer, not necessarily a scheduled web broadcast.

[chadstevens]

Streamwriter will let you record the internet stream itself.  It works on Windows and Linux using Wine and it's free.  Depending on how the stream is configured, it can automatically split it into individual songs or one long recording.

Downzemall is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome that can also record radio streams.

And of course FFMPEG is a free command-line utility that can record streams.  Various GUI's are available for it too.  It's as simple as

ffmpeg.exe -y -i link.to.stream/url file-output-name.mp3 (or .aac or .ogg)