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Scheduled Recording of Streamed Audio?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-TiVo-for-internet-radio dept.

sborisch asks: "I have tried at least 15 different Internet Radio/Shoutcast players, looking for one with a scheduler (recorder) capability that actually works. The closest I have found are IRadio and Replay Radio, but IRadio depends on the Windows scheduler, and isn't the least bit reliable in my test of it. Replay seems to want to send everything through your sound card, and hence makes it impossible to listen to something and record something else at the same time. It does have a so-called direct download option, but this doesn't seem to work either. Surely someone has found a better solution than this. Please let me know." How would you schedule a recording streaming audio from either Windows or Unix?

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  1. Total Recorder by Murphy+Murph · · Score: 5, Informative

    For Windows Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ will copy any audio stream - protected or not - on a schedule, or real time.

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    1. Re:Total Recorder by fm6 · · Score: 4, Informative
      I've used that one. It works very well, though the user interface is a little klunky. The interesting thing is that if you tell it to direct the recorded stream to disk without also playing it back, Real Player will start playing back the stream as fast as it can get it off the net. Doesn't make any different with a live stream, but if the server is pulling up a recording for you, it speeds up too. So if you, for example, record an old 30-minute NPR interview, the recording will only take about 20 minutes.

      Of course that brings up a nasty issue. NPR presumably makes a lot of money from the downloadable material on audible.com. If a lot of people started downloading that same material for free from the NPR web site, I suspect a lot of that material would cease to be available.