Thursday, 02 May 2019
Can I record streamed audio such as web radio?
One way to do this would be to use a program such as Total Recorder (from www.highcriteria.com), which will let you record *anything* which is playing on your system – then you could just play the stream, and record a WAV file with Total Recorder, and then encode the WAV file with any MP3 encoder. If you have a full duplex soundcard you should not even need Total Recorder – you should be able to record whatever is playing with a standard WAV recording program such as Goldwave (www.goldwave.com). If you try to do this, don’t forget to bring up your Windows recording mixer (double click on the little yellow speaker in your systray), then select Options / Properties / Recording, then make sure the WAV slider is selected, not muted, and set to a reasonable volume (this may vary a little bit depending on your version of Windows and what sound card you have).
Total Recorder may actually give you better results, since it is intercepting the digital stream before it is sent to the soundcard, whereas recording the other way, you are probably recording output produced after going through digital-to-analogue and then analogue-to-digital conversion in your sound card, which will likely result in some quality loss…
