Recording audio from the web

[BudV]

What's the emoticon for "embarrassed?"

Obviously, I interpreted "any source" as "all sources" instead of as "any
single source", even though common sense should have told me that the former
is not a reasonable option. Damn those senior moments!

Thanks again for your help.

 

[BudV]

Thanks to the forum, I have something that works for me, and there's no need
to continue this thread. BUT...

I have retired from over 50 years of programming, and suffer from the
curiosity that I think makes a good programmer. If you share my attitude
and want to stick around, be my guest. Of course, if I don't have any
guests, I'll just wrap it up.

I hear about downloading MP3 stuff all the time, but I have never had the
need to do so. What this thread has been dealing with is a nine-day series
of interview/lectures (two one-hour sessions per day) which my daughter is
interested in. Unfortunately, she's out of town and asked me to capture the
series for her. I'm doing that, and everything is cool.

Stop me if I go wrong here. These are one-hour sessions because it takes
that long to speak/hear that much data. I suspect that if I were merely
copying that data, I could download it much faster (and she could play it at
an audible rate later). That's why I'm pursuing this. If I'm all wet on
this, then I'm done.

Some of the replies referred to "downloading the MP3" or words to that
effect. That makes me visualize a screen that includes a list of filenames,
and all I have to do is select the one I want and click "download". If
that's what I had available, I could have handled that with no sweat, even
at my age.

What I have, though, is a site -- http://tappingworldsummit.com/event --
that asks me to choose a red door or a green door. As soon as I do that, a
page comes up, loads the data (fast) from SOMEWHERE, and starts playing it
and that audible signal is what I'm recording. What I would like to do, I
think, is simply download that fast-loading file.

FYI: Today, Labor Day, the site is dealing with Day 4. This number changes
every evening at 7:00 CDT.

 

[Beamish]

Thanks to the forum, I have something that works for me, and there's no
need to continue this thread. BUT...

I have retired from over 50 years of programming, and suffer from the
curiosity that I think makes a good programmer. If you share my attitude
and want to stick around, be my guest. Of course, if I don't have any
guests, I'll just wrap it up.

I hear about downloading MP3 stuff all the time, but I have never had the
need to do so. What this thread has been dealing with is a nine-day
series of interview/lectures (two one-hour sessions per day) which my
daughter is interested in. Unfortunately, she's out of town and asked me
to capture the series for her. I'm doing that, and everything is cool.

Stop me if I go wrong here. These are one-hour sessions because it takes
that long to speak/hear that much data. I suspect that if I were merely
copying that data, I could download it much faster (and she could play it
at an audible rate later). That's why I'm pursuing this. If I'm all wet
on this, then I'm done.

Some of the replies referred to "downloading the MP3" or words to that
effect. That makes me visualize a screen that includes a list of
filenames, and all I have to do is select the one I want and click
"download". If that's what I had available, I could have handled that
with no sweat, even at my age.

What I have, though, is a site -- http://tappingworldsummit.com/event --
that asks me to choose a red door or a green door. As soon as I do that,
a page comes up, loads the data (fast) from SOMEWHERE, and starts playing
it and that audible signal is what I'm recording. What I would like to
do, I think, is simply download that fast-loading file.

FYI: Today, Labor Day, the site is dealing with Day 4. This number
changes every evening at 7:00 CDT.

Hello,
Visited the site posted.
There are 4 choices, red and green doors are for on-line audio.
Gold and Platinum, discs' mailed and download files.
From this I conclude you need to pay to download files.
From the way it is posted these items are sold to the individual.
You are correct concerning downloading the files.
Download speed between the site server and your connection
would give you the time factor, more likely several minutes per file.
MP3 is a compressed audio file format, there are other audio formats.
Don't be too concerned about "senior moments", I am a "senior moment".
Five minuets and it is all new.
take care.
beamish.

 

[BudV]

Naturally I was going for the cheap way out -- free is nice.

I'm not sure how to interpret "... the time factor, more likely several
minutes per file." I have selected statistics from what I've been playing
with:

File ext. Size Playing time Type
..wma 35.7MB 0:50 What I got for "out from
speaker, in to mic"
..ogg 37.7MB 1:10 Ogg vorbis - unique to
Audacity?
..mp3 10.4MB 0:45 Straight download of .mp3
bonus they offered. Download time 1:08.

I'm sure I tried to export as .wav, as well. I don't remember why I decided
against using it.

Of course, the first two download times = playing times.

..mp3 wins hands down. Apparently what I'm seeing on the site is their
loading an .mp3 file and downloading it in an audio format. The big
question is can I find their input file and download that? Note that I'm
assuming (!) that its in .mp3 format. It may not be, right?

Just for curiosity's sake, of course. I'll stick with .ogg for now. There
are only five days left.

But it could happen again!

 

[Beamish]

Naturally I was going for the cheap way out -- free is nice.

I'm not sure how to interpret "... the time factor, more likely several
minutes per file." I have selected statistics from what I've been playing
with:

File ext. Size Playing time Type
.wma 35.7MB 0:50 What I got for "out from
speaker, in to mic"
.ogg 37.7MB 1:10 Ogg vorbis - unique to
Audacity?
.mp3 10.4MB 0:45 Straight download of .mp3
bonus they offered. Download time 1:08.

I'm sure I tried to export as .wav, as well. I don't remember why I
decided against using it.

Of course, the first two download times = playing times.

.mp3 wins hands down. Apparently what I'm seeing on the site is their
loading an .mp3 file and downloading it in an audio format. The big
question is can I find their input file and download that? Note that I'm
assuming (!) that its in .mp3 format. It may not be, right?

Just for curiosity's sake, of course. I'll stick with .ogg for now.
There are only five days left.

But it could happen again!

Hello,
Download capability a combination of your ISP service and from the site you
are downloading files.
I purchase from a cable company 1MB/s download ability (lowest offered,
lowest price), if I want more need to pay more.
Download sites usually allow X amount/s download.
One may have a T1 line but the download site may allow files to download at
1MB/s.

There are many different audio file types, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and WMA and
others.
Conversion applications exist (free and pay), for all types of file formats.
Converting allows one to change file format from say MP3 to WMA, I change
all audio files to the MP3 format.

Other posters, such as Andy posted good information concerning what you are
interested in accomplishing.
VideoCacheView, a free application, that you would download and install.

The internet gives access to information and due to the generosity on many
individuals free programs and applications, allowing people to have access
to programs that otherwise they could not afford.

take care.
beamish.

 

[Jon]

You can do this using the inbuilt Vista applications, by recording from
'Stereo mix' , as others have hinted.

With Movie Maker it's 'Tools > Narrate Timeline' and you can also record
directly using Sound Recorder. To do that you set 'Stereo mix' as your
default recording device.

Re the specific website, the urls for the mp3 files are visible via 'View >
Source' (then search for .mp3)

 

[BudV]

GREAT! Lots of good suggestions. I won't try to judge which method is
better, per se. But Jon's use of View Source fits best into my
programmer's way of thinking -- and it works for me!

Thanks to all of you. It's been a roller coaster ride, but it's over now.