Thanks Judy, I looked at Audacity, but I couldn't work out how to make it record from a stream, instead of from a mic or line in. But VLC looks like it will do the job.
I love this list - even if the answer is to use something other than Rev, there are always helpful suggestions :-) Cheers, Sarah On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Judy Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Sarah, > > Have you tried Audacity? > > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ > > HTH, > > Judy > > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have a one-off need to record sound, so I am hoping somebody will >> have done all the hard work for me :-) >> It's streamed from a radio station online in either Real player >> format, or mp3 format. >> These both play on my Mac fine, using VLC & iTunes respectively, but >> as the mp3 stream is 128kbps while the Real stream is listed as "22, >> 44 & 96 kbps", I am assuming the mp3 stream is the way to go. >> >> I've looked at various capture utilities, but they all want money, >> which would be fine if I wanted to do this regularly, but I only need >> it once, so I though maybe Rev could do it for me. >> If anyone knows of a freeware alternative, that would be great. >> >> Meanwhile, I have been looking at Rev's sound recording capabilities. >> There seem to be lots of options, and I can get the "record sound" >> dialog, even though I don't know what to choose. >> But I guess the real problem is selecting the recordInput. The docs >> say to use a 4 letter code and they say that the possible options vary >> with hardware & system software, but I can't see any way to tell what >> options are available. The listed ones don't appear to include >> recording a live stream. >> >> As you will all be able to tell, I know next to nothing about audio >> formats or recording, but an advice or sample scripts would be >> gratefully received. >> >> Many thanks, >> Sarah >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
