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Can You Timeshift Streaming Audio?

Posted by Cliff on from the internet-audio-recorders dept.

Ralph Bearpark asks: "There are several hundred/thousand radio stations out there putting out live streaming audio on the Internet. What if you want to regularly record your favorite show at, say, 11:30 on Wednesday on BBC Radio 4 and then, maybe, download it to your MP3 player for listening on the move ... How'd you do this? Is there software out there already? If not, what would you need to put it together?"

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  1. Total Recorder by jeff_tyrrill · · Score: 4

    For Windows, Total Recorder will record to disk the sound output of any program. It can either play it through the sound card also, or remain silent. It can also be scheduled to start and stop at a specific time, using command-line parameters or its built-in scheduler. You can schedule RealPlayer or any other media player to start a minute or so after the time Total Recorder has been scheduled to start to create a completely automatic system to record recurring broadcasts.

  2. helpful hints by xjesus · · Score: 4

    I've wondered the same thing before. I don't think RealAudio wants you to be able to save streams for liability reasons. And i just did some tinkering with winamp's writing capabilities... It appears that broadcasts using SHOUTcast (streaming MP3 ala live365) also do not allow you to record streams due to "copyright issues".

    RIAA and associates, do not read below:
    If you are using windows, there's a piece of software called Stream Save that lets you save a SHOUTcast stream to disk (still in MP3 format). If you are running Linux there's a program called paudio that lets you capture and save raw audio data being written to the soundcard. You might be able to mod it to compress it to mp3/vorbis/whetever before it hits the disk with a little tinkering.