Free tools to save audio-streams?

tungsten on 23/3/2006 at 07:19

Who can recommend some free software (or very reasonably priced) to save an audio-stream (e.g. online radio) to mp3 or ogg? Preferrably for WinXP.
One feature I'd like: make automatically 1 file/track.
Is it possible to save the stream directly from flash, without all the noise that the soundcard adds when I get a phonecall?

Omega on 23/3/2006 at 08:12

(http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/)

theBlackman on 23/3/2006 at 08:33

If your sound card carries the phone call sound, the answer is NO. Think about it. Sound card plays all sounds entering computer, or eminating from computer.

Ergo: any sound will be mixed with ongoing sound.

Unless one source is turned off.

tungsten on 23/3/2006 at 11:34

Thanks for the link, Omega. Sounds like a great tool for reasonable radios. However, I'm listening to flash and realplayer-junk...

Blackman, that doesn't have to be: if you directly de/encode what comes through your internet cable (as Omega's ripper does), the chances are good, that the interference is not yet mixed in (if it is not your network cable that plays antenna). Besides, you'd like the digital conversion without having an unnessary D/A A/D step inbetween - just for better quality.

Vernon on 23/3/2006 at 12:43

also sdp.ppona.com

Omega on 23/3/2006 at 22:46

Hm, well I don't know of any ripper that can get audio from flash files. Besides just recording the audio that you hear (what you're probably already doing). Maybe if the phone isn't on the same line as the normal output the you could just select the source that you want to record in the recorder.

Plenty of good stations sorted by genre on (http://shoutcast.com/)
Have a look. :)

tungsten on 24/3/2006 at 02:38

Ah, I see. I don't connect through the phone line, and I meant mobile phone interferences.
Yes, I had allsoundrecorder and was very unhappy with it. So no, I don't even have a soundcard-output-recorder now.

doctorfrog on 24/3/2006 at 06:27

Rather than waste everyone's time with a dedicated thread, I thought I would pimp this here:

site: (http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118)
stream: (http://www.park.nl/digidivi/9bs.pls)

This is Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched out to a 24-hour length, and pitch-corrected so as to un-retard it. Seriously, it is better than it sounds, almost meditative, with an undercurrent of space-station unease. At the very least it shows that a mathematical algorithm can produce drone-ey ambient music from a decent symphonic piece.

Cram this down your streamripper gullet, and your hard drive is likely to choke on it. Even at dialup bitrates, the mp3 hits more than a gigabyte in size.

See also (http://www.somafm.com/) Soma FM and (http://www.sleepbot.com/) Sleepbot.

found via (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=1442754) link.

Tonamel on 24/3/2006 at 08:10

Hey, that's actually not bad at all, thanks.

I wish he'd mention what program he used to do the stretching. There's very little scaling distortion in what I've heard, which is pretty surprising.

Para?noid on 24/3/2006 at 10:06

First of all, the time stretching algorithm used didn't shift the pitch anyway, since it's probably taking granular chunks of the sustain phase of most of these sounds and looping them. I sincerely doubt that the dude just put the whole symphony through a single time-stretch and that was it; he's broken it down into a large series of small, manageable sections and also used a fuckload of reverb to smooth out aliasing / artifacts.

Although colour me impressed if this was done without the help of a multitracked master recording.