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Recording a radio programme, question for help, please
MrsRobinson
11-03-2013
I don't know if this is in the right section, so apologies if it isn't!

I would like to record a radio programme (listen again etc) before it runs out tonight but I don't know how to do it so can a clever techy person please tell me what to do and if there is a programme I can download to my PC to do it please. I would also like to put it onto a CD... and thanks if someone can please help me.
chrisjr
11-03-2013
Download Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

It is a completely free audio editor/recorder. There are plenty of tutorials on that web site under the Help tab to get you going. You need to select whatever the computer is playing back as the recording source which can go under various names depending on your hardware, "Stereo Mix", "Wave Out", "Sum", "What U Hear" or "Loopback" are common variants.

You then just start Audacity recording and then play back the programme. If all is set up properly Audacity should start drawing the waveform in the display to show it's working. You can then trim out any unwanted bits if you desire then save it as an audio file on your computer.

If you have any version of Windows later than or including XP (Vista/Win7/Win8) then burning a CD is easy. Just put a blank CD in the drive (assuming it is not just a playback only drive - not very common these days) and either drag the file you saved above to the CD drive in (My) Computer or fire up Windows Media Player which has an option to burn the audio to CD.

There may be other ways that someone else can suggest.
MrsRobinson
11-03-2013
Thank you very much Chris for replying. I'm obviously not techy minded but will give it a go.
MrsRobinson
11-03-2013
So far I can't fathom it out so is there anything else I need to download please?

I have the radio programme ready to play, I know the length of time and have the 'Audacity' box in the top left corner of my screen with 'file', 'edit', 'view', 'transport', 'tracks', 'generate', 'effect' etc and now I'm lost as to what to press first!
MrsRobinson
11-03-2013
65 views and only one reply!

Help!!!
mred2000
12-03-2013
Chris already told you: hit Record in Audacity and then begin playback of the show. I recommend recording a few seconds and then stop it to test and make sure you're doing it right before recording the whole show.
MrsRobinson
12-03-2013
OK mred2000... I have done it now but am not at all techy minded, so you must excuse me. Once I'd got it recorded, I wasn't sure what to save it as - an MP3 or other file so I opted for MP3 and whoopee it plays!!

THANKS Chris for helping me and mred2000 for your reply, but I had done it before seeing your message xx
MrsRobinson
12-03-2013
You'll think I'm stupid as I thought I'd saved it as an MP3 but it's a WAV file and it plays OK, but can I record this onto a CD for a friend please?
oilman
22-03-2013
Many free aps to do this
Google "burn wav file to audio cd"

Audio cd bit is important to create cd that can play in any cd player.
darnall42
22-03-2013
for a free radio recording program try rarmaradio http://www.raimersoft.com/rarmaradio.aspx been using this software for around a year and have recorded 100s of shows ,most online radio stations are programed in so you just click on the record button (and you can record more tan 1 station at a time )
barbeler
31-03-2013
Originally Posted by oilman:
“Many free aps to do this
Google "burn wav file to audio cd"

Audio cd bit is important to create cd that can play in any cd player.”

I think I'm right in saying that if it's a .wav file, it would play on any cd player, even if it was simply copied onto the disk as a straightforward file.
I believe that all the "burn wav file to audio cd" facility does is convert the mp3 to .wav format.
RobPyatt
01-04-2013
for BBC and podcasts, it is hard to beat Radio Downloader - http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/.

You can set it to record your favorite shows each time they are on, or put in podcast addresses, and they are downloaded automatically.
fredluffy
04-04-2013
If the radio show has a podcast then you might just be able to download the podcast to keep.
chrisjr
05-04-2013
Originally Posted by barbeler:
“I think I'm right in saying that if it's a .wav file, it would play on any cd player, even if it was simply copied onto the disk as a straightforward file.
I believe that all the "burn wav file to audio cd" facility does is convert the mp3 to .wav format.”

No it wouldn't necessarily play on a standalone CD player.

A Data CD containing an audio file is not the same thing as an Audio CD. The way the data is stored on the disk is different for the two types of disk. A stand alone CD player may well be able to read a Data CD but that is not guaranteed.

Burning an Audio CD is not just a case of converting to a specific audio format but also burning the data onto the disk in a specific manner.
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