FW to Capture Any Audio Your Computer is Playing?

[ggdbr01]

Well, the last time I was thinking about buying a commercial program, I
posted a message here asking for freeware alternatives -- and
discovered several programs that are better than the commercial one!
Not bad. I'd treat you all to lunch if you didn't live so far away!

A new question for the ever-savvy alt.comp.freeware community: do you
know of any freeware program that will simply capture any audio your
computer is capable of playing (as it is being played)?

The commercial program I'm looking for a substitute for is XAudiotool's
Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder 6.0:

http://www.xaudiotools.com/

From the website:

"Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder makes a complete sound recorder studio of
your computer. With Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder you can record sound from
microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, or music played by
Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Power DVD,
Flash, games, etc. Sound quality of the recordings remains excellent,
or sounds even better for Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder reduces noise.
Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder is able to automatically detect the recording
formats your sound card supports and then set the application's
parameters for the best possible performance. Your recordings are then
saved as Mp3,Wma or Wav files...."

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

[-Art-]

don't if this will suit needs, but:
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/about.php

Streamripper was started sometime back in early 2000. Streamripper
started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcast's title-streaming
feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature,
where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track
starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan
for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.

Streamripper is now part of the FreeBSD standard distribution,
mentioned in the Linux MP3 HOWTO, known to compile on many platforms
such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2. This is not surprising as
portability was a constant consideration during development.

 

[dadiOH]

A new question for the ever-savvy alt.comp.freeware community: do you
know of any freeware program that will simply capture any audio your
computer is capable of playing (as it is being played)?

Lots of free real time recorders (in addition to Windows Sound
recorder)...CDex, AudioGrabber, dbPower Converter, CDWave, Audacity...

See my dandies below for more info and URLs.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[Mel]

Well, the last time I was thinking about buying a commercial program, I
posted a message here asking for freeware alternatives -- and
discovered several programs that are better than the commercial one!
Not bad. I'd treat you all to lunch if you didn't live so far away!

A new question for the ever-savvy alt.comp.freeware community: do you
know of any freeware program that will simply capture any audio your
computer is capable of playing (as it is being played)?

The commercial program I'm looking for a substitute for is XAudiotool's
Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder 6.0:

http://www.xaudiotools.com/


"Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder makes a complete sound recorder studio of
your computer. With Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder you can record sound from
microphone, streaming audio from the Internet,

Not what you are asking for I know, but rather than trying to record MMS
streaming audio as it is played http://sdp.ppona.com/ will download it as a file.

"Remember, SDP can now download the following protocols, not just mms:
Http v1.0 streaming protocol, Http progressive (simple http download) and of course: mms, mmst and mmsu over both TCP and UDP
transport protocols. The current version of SDP (2.0.0) does not support RTSP streaming. This will be featured in the next release."

 

[mweb]

Hello, Mel!
You wrote on Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:37:59 +0100:

I get "can't run 16bit windows programs" when trying to install on XP Pro.
My fault or progam problem?

??>> Well, the last time I was thinking about buying a commercial program,
??>> I posted a message here asking for freeware alternatives --
??>> and discovered several programs that are better than the commercial
??>> one! Not bad. I'd treat you all to lunch if you didn't live so far
??>> away!
??>>
??>> A new question for the ever-savvy alt.comp.freeware community: do you
??>> know of any freeware program that will simply capture any audio your
??>> computer is capable of playing (as it is being played)?
??>>
??>> The commercial program I'm looking for a substitute for is
??>> XAudiotool's Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder 6.0:
??>>
??>> http://www.xaudiotools.com/
??>>
??>>> From the website:
??>>
??>> "Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder makes a complete sound recorder studio of
??>> your computer. With Advanced MP3/WMA Recorder you can record sound
??>> from microphone, streaming audio from the Internet,

M> Not what you are asking for I know, but rather than trying to record MMS
M> streaming audio as it is played http://sdp.ppona.com/ will download it
as a file.


With best regards, mweb. E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Mel]

Hello, Mel!
You wrote on Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:37:59 +0100:

I get "can't run 16bit windows programs" when trying to install on XP Pro.
My fault or progam problem?

I've only tried it on 98se, however this might help

http://sdp.ppona.com/installererrors.html

Regards,

Mel.