Thursday, January 15, 2009

Software to Record Steaming Audio

Question:
Software to Record Steaming Audio

Several programs like Car Talk and Rick Steve's Travel allow you to listen to their radio shows via streaming audio. But there are times that I would like to capture the program in a wmf or mp3 file and play it later on my SanDisk Sansa. Do you know of any utilities that will allow you to record a program as it streams?

Response:
CarTalk is NPR and available on Itunes as a Podcast
http://www.cartalk.com/ct/review/index.jsp

Rick Steves Travel is the same way. I have a ipod adapter and I do cartalk (when I think about it).
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/podcast_menu.htm

I really would like to get the wifi sync-ipod adapter so I can be lazy and not have to remember to get ipod out of car to sync up new music.Audacity can convert many audio files to other formats...

Audacity Link
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

RadioLover
http://www.bitcartel.com/radiolover/

On the Mac I have a program called Radiolover (I think) that would pull 30 minutes? (shareware?) and make a MP3 out of the stream. The podcast is the way to go though for those two.

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