[ianpwilliams]

OK let's compare them and see how they turn out. I'd rather not do scheduled recordings as that would mean leaving my PC on all day while I'm in work. Unless there is an option to shut the PC down once the recording is finished.

[slaphead1982]

Can somebody please tell me how to record from live stream for Radio X. I want to record the "Moyles is back" ads.

[ianpwilliams]

Install the app I mentioned before https://streamwriter.org/en/ and search for xfm. You then get a 128kbps MP3 stream which is recordable. Voilà!

Of course, we need to make sure to find the stream if and when it changes names, so that first day may be tricky!

This is how you record live apparently.

[slaphead1982]

I'll give it a go.

[nade]

Good grief, their web player which pops up from the website just screams rip off from my old i-player radio listening days.

Edit: When i say rip off, I mean layout/window size. Obviously BBC never really done the same colour scheme afaik.

[VMPhil]

Good grief, their web player which pops up from the website just screams rip off from my old i-player radio listening days.

Edit: When i say rip off, I mean layout/window size. Obviously BBC never really done the same colour scheme afaik.

That's the standardised Radioplayer design that the BBC and (the majority of) commercial stations use.

http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/

[nade]

Good grief, their web player which pops up from the website just screams rip off from my old i-player radio listening days.

Edit: When i say rip off, I mean layout/window size. Obviously BBC never really done the same colour scheme afaik.

That's the standardised Radioplayer design that the BBC and (the majority of) commercial stations use.

http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/

Ah right, ta, goes to show how much notice i pay to that then.

[JayE]

Okay, I'm thinking of buying tunein pro to record the show on Monday, have a question though: how does it save the recording and is it easily transferable to my laptop?

[nade]

Okay, I'm thinking of buying tunein pro to record the show on Monday, have a question though: how does it save the recording and is it easily transferable to my laptop?

Saw this posting on XDA and it's a few years old now, so not sure if it would still work, but looks surprisingly simple if it is still the case:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1767380

Edit: Balls sorry apparently doesn't work anymore.

[nade]

OK, just done a quick look and found a free app Audials (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... s&hl=en_GB).

Easily found XFM on there and there is a record (as mp3 in Music\Audials\XFM folder on my HTC). Lots of options and settings but can't see any scheduled recording options.

[JayE]

Thanks for your help, I'll see what I can do!

[nade]

Audials quality seems pretty decent to me, but then i'm oblivious to the finer qualities of such things.

Did a quick record of ~36seconds from XFM and saved it straight as a 618k mp3 file.

[neilt0]

Okay, I'm thinking of buying tunein pro to record the show on Monday, have a question though: how does it save the recording and is it easily transferable to my laptop?

Or, just use a free app on your laptop?

[JayE]

Okay, I'm thinking of buying tunein pro to record the show on Monday, have a question though: how does it save the recording and is it easily transferable to my laptop?

Or, just use a free app on your laptop?

Well yeah I could do but I don't want to leave my laptop on all day.. I leave the house at half 7 so I can just keep it recording on my phone and press stop when the show is over at 10.

[neilt0]

That's why I have a shutdown timer on my laptop.

[JayE]

Well, I'll give that streamwriter a go then.
Edit: Ace! Installed and scheduled a recording for 21st at 6:30 till 10:00!

[ianpwilliams]

Are you able to shutdown the computer afterwards, or would that require another programming for a scheduled shutdown?

[James H]

Are you able to shutdown the computer afterwards, or would that require another programming for a scheduled shutdown?

You can schedule a shutdown in windows with the following command:

Code: Select allshutdown -s -t [seconds]

Where [seconds] is how many seconds before it shuts down. If you allow for a bit of overlap, a seconds value of 13500 would shut it down after 3.75 hours

[ianpwilliams]

OK thanks, might try that on the first day

[neilt0]

Well, I'll give that streamwriter a go then.
Edit: Ace! Installed and scheduled a recording for 21st at 6:30 till 10:00!

Did you find Radio X, or did you schedule a recording of xfm?

[JayE]

Using this one: http://media-ice.musicradio.com/RadioXUKMP3 James posted it on the previous page.

[neilt0]

Great! I will program that in. Boop boop beep boop.

[VMPhil]

Great! I will program that in. Boop boop beep boop.

There's also the AAC+ stream, which is only 48kbps compared to the MP3 stream of 128kbps, but because it's newer and more efficient than MP3 has comparable sound quality at a lower bitrate, which means smaller file sizes if you're recording full shows. Might be worth considering but it's up to you whether you think the quality is as good or not, and I presume won't work with that direct MP3 editor that someone posted earlier.

http://media-ice.musicradio.com/RadioXUK

(Incidentally you can see all the Global Radio streams here: http://media-ice.musicradio.com )

[ianpwilliams]

Do we know what quality the mp4 direct download is (ie downloading the show after broadcast) compared to recording the mp3 stream? As much as I'd like to record it live I don't have much time in the mornings to be booting up, starting a recording, and then scheduling a shutdown.

[James H]

Do Global actually do catchup? I'm struggling to find any evidence that they do