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TiVo For Radio?
An anonymous reader points out this Wired story that says "several electronics makers are releasing new products that promise to do for radio what the TiVo digital video recorder has done for television." (Products that might seem puny to serious time-shifting radio listeners, but cool to see them anyhow.)
All you need is:= >A command to record it (say "sox -V -t ossdsp -c 2 -r 48000 /dev/dsp -t wav -c 2 -r 48000 /home/madmax/AUDIO/pipe1 & /home/madmax/AUDIO/pipe1 -o /home/madmax/AUDIO/history2.ogg")
==>A tuner card (say wintv FM)
==>A program to tune it (say gnomeradio - www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomeradio)
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oggenc -Q -q 6.5 -a "BBC Radio 2" -t "History of Psychedlia Part 2"
==>A command to stop it (say "killall sox")
==>And finally, at (see "man at"), to make it happen when u want.
All you ever need is a nice bit of unix/linux
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Talk radio would be a possible use, but I also see devices such as these would be good for NPR junkies like myself who love the specialty music programs such as Hearts of Space, Echoes, or Thistle and Shamrock. Just like TV programs, these aren't always aired at convenient times, and it would be nice to record them for later listening or to take to work the following day. Same is true of other specialty music programs, such as many rock stations' local band show.
Of course, I can already do that with the many radio stations that provide streams, StreamRipper, and a cron job.
TechTV has a decent guide on bitrates... maybe this will help. Hope that helps...
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the me that you know is now made up of wires
Before moving out of the lovely SF Bay area couple of years ago, I wanted to capture the local jazz station (KCSM) from my FM receiver to my PC.
I found a product called Total Recorder (www.highcriteria.com) - which has a scheduling feature (so I could capture the Jazz Oasis every evening at 7pm).
Besides recording anything that can be played on your computer, I also captured some Internet radio streams, such as www.live365.com, which were otherwise un-capturable. Nice to rip 11 hours of Internet radio to a CD and play it in the car.
BTW - Radio Shack sells an RCA to stereo plug convertor for converting left/right audio plugs to a single line in port on your PC.
Us os X users already have the killer App for this. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ Audiohijack will record any application and has full support for timers. Now if they would just build a weblisting for kexp.org so I can grab my favorite shows.. Additionaly automating the sync to ipod should just take an applescript..
because NPR is supported by your donations (well, mine, anyway) it's not stealing to record it and listen later
No no no no no no no
It is not illegal to tape *anything* on the radio and listen later, regardless of their business model.
This is not the first time this type of application has been talked about on Slashdot.
Anyways, this software already exists for intenet streaming radio broadcasts:
http://www.replay-radio.com/
Joseph Elwell.
And what's wrong with the audio files on their website?
http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/online
Sure, they're RealAudio, but that's not a problem *cough*mencoder*cough*Audio Hijack*cough*.
Audio files of NPR shows are typically available at the NPR.org web site the following day. They even keep audio archives.
Yeah, the D-Link USB radio hardware works well, and you are right, the software that comes with it is definitely lame. They are out of production, but maybe you can still find them. I got mine from the Gateway online Computer Store (I had a free shipping coupon>
I enhanced my D-Link radio with freeware called Radiator from flesko.cz. It allows you to record to .wav files, and set a recording timer.
The Radiator software is excellent but it is for the Windows platform. I am running it now on Windows 2000. D-Link says the DSB-R100 is not compatible with Windows XP. I don't know if Radiator will make it work with XP.
I selected my computer radio because it was compatible with the Radiator program, I think that is a good critera for shopping for an integrated radio. I had been running it with an ISA Reveal FM Radio card, but my new Dell had no ISA slots, so I had to buy the D-Link.
...at least in the UK. I don't know about elsewhere. It can record any of the radio channels that are available through cable. This includes virtually all of the local and national stations, plus quite a few that are digital only.
I use it to record specialist shows from BBC Radio 1 that are broadcast at ungodly hours, such as the Breezeblock and Gilles Peterson and listen to them at a more civilised time.
www.RadioMyTime.com
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