Recording an audio stream (internet radio)

[NiceCupOfTea]

Hi all,

I'm trying to record an audio stream from an internet radio station - I've done it before quite easily by getting the stream name via looking through the page source and plugging the URL into VLc. However, I'm struggling with this one. It's a Classic FM "listen again" stream (so not "live" radio).

Page URL is here:

https://www.classicfm.com/radio/aod/?episodeId=Q2F...

Can't find anything useful in the source code. Could use one of the "in tab" recorders but they tend only to go up to 20 minutes at a time. Could use audacity to record it but 2 hours (length of stream) is a lot of time to go without any glitches or "bing"s from Windows.

Any better ideas? Would gladly pay for it if there were an option (particularly in decent quality)

Cheers

[Zoon]

Have you tried this?

http://www.freesoundrecorder.net/tutorial-how-to-r...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Zoon said:

Have you tried this?

http://www.freesoundrecorder.net/tutorial-how-to-r...

Thanks for the reply - not that specific one, but I have Audacity which will do a similar thing. I was rather hoping there was a way of just saving the data from the stream (well, obviously there is, but these sites do their very best to obfuscate them) rather than re-record it...

[Slushbox]

If you're doing this regularly Audacity does work, assuming you've disabled all the Windows boings and bleeps.

Audacity does become a faff if you're breaking up a longer recording into chunks.

I record Radio FIP for transfer onto a USB stick for the car, (live jazz concerts etc). The easiest option for me is a handheld MP3 recorder like the Tascam DR-05. This has a line-in socket, so just plugs into the PC headphone output. Can be USB powered, and so will easily run for 24 hours.

The advantage is that it breaks recordings up into manageable lengths, so leaving the thing plugged in all night recording, gets twelve 64 minute long recordings. It also has a nice 'tape-transport' interface and a backlight.

There's headphone monitoring of the income feed.

Very useful for unattended recording from a PC steam. It also makes for a good MP3/WAV playback machine.

Think 'digital cassette recorder.'

There are other cheaper handhelds now, with line in sockets.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tascam-Version-Dictaphone...

Edited by Slushbox on Thursday 13th June 08:21

[droopsnoot]

This link seems to open in VLC for me:

http://catchup.hosting.thisisdax.com/d9556f17-73a9...

I opened the page in Chrome, opened developer tools, selected "Application", then "Frames", then "Media".

If you copy that link, open Chrome, paste-and-go into the address bar, mine then automatically downloads it as an m4a mpeg audio file.

Edited by droopsnoot on Thursday 13th June 10:55

[NiceCupOfTea]

droopsnoot said:

This link seems to open in VLC for me:

http://catchup.hosting.thisisdax.com/d9556f17-73a9...

I opened the page in Chrome, opened developer tools, selected "Application", then "Frames", then "Media".

If you copy that link, open Chrome, paste-and-go into the address bar, mine then automatically downloads it as an m4a mpeg audio file.

Edited by droopsnoot on Thursday 13th June 10:55

You absolute star! PH delivers again! Thank you so much!

Can I ask (for next time!) where do you find developer tools?

Re: the Tascam DR - yes they are brilliant little things, I have had a DR-07 Mk.2 for a few years and use it for live recording and dictating etc.!

Thanks all!

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Thursday 13th June 12:31

[snuffy]

Taping off the radio using one of these when I was a nipper:





Happy days !

[droopsnoot]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can I ask (for next time!) where do you find developer tools?

Click on the three dots button in the top right corner just below the 'x', then choose "more tools" from the menu, and it's in there. Opens up the console, DOM explorer and loads of stuff I wouldn't begin to be able to describe or use. When you can't find the address for the thing in the page source, it's often because some JavaScript has loaded it after the page has loaded, so you need to be able to examine the current status.

I've also played with a thing called "JDownloader" - that seemed to be quite good at acting as a Chrome extension, noticing when media like videos and so on are available on a page, and separately downloading a local copy. I was a bit concerned that it takes ages (more than a minute) to open up, so I wondered if it was doing something else that I didn't want it to, though I know quite a few that use it without concern. From time to time I see stuff on Youtube that I'd like to keep a local copy of in case it disappears (or I just can't find it again when I want it) and normally VLC is sufficient to find the link information to do that, but JDownloader did seem to make it much simpler.