Recording streaming audio

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Jack Purvis

Someone posted instructions on how to do this but I can't find them!
If you could post again, I'd be grateful.
 
To do this in real time, download jetaudio basic (free) www.jetaudio.com and
press the recording option,
choose STEREO OUT for your recording source and choose an encoder (I would
suggest WMA). start recording and start your streaming... whatever you hear
from the speakers will be recorded. (PS this means you should probably
temporarily disable the windows sounds from the control panel > sounds and
audio devices)

I hope this info helps

Kenny. www.computerboom.com
 
Jack said:
Someone posted instructions on how to do this but I can't find them!
If you could post again, I'd be grateful.
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Second request for the post that described different ways to extract the
stream. I had it stored in my firefox scrapbook which no longer seems
to work,
 
Second request for the post that described different ways to extract the
stream. I had it stored in my firefox scrapbook which no longer seems
to work,
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Maybe this is what you are looking for?

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The following is a 'work in progress' so please post any comments or
corrections.

Summary of techniques for saving RealMedia to your own HD.

A file on a website with a .ram or .asx or .m3u extension is just a
pointer to the actual media file(s) location. (filename.ram for
streaming Real Media, filename.asx for streaming Windows Media and
filename.m3u for mp3)

The following techniques work successfully on a Win98 machine with the
K-Lite Mega codec pack v1.35 installed.
(http://www.codecguide.com/about_mega.htm) This installs plugins to
enable me to play RealMedia files in Internet Explorer and Firefox and
also installs Media Player Classic v6.4.8.4 to play RealMedia files
from the HD. I use Firefox v1.0.4 as my browser.

Techniques:

1. Search your own internet cache.
2. Locate the .rm file from the downloaded .ram file.
3. Locate the .rm file from the browser plugin.
4. Un-associate filetypes
5. Real7ime Converter (R7C) v1.1
6. Net Transport v1.94c
7. Net Transport (when link is javascript)
8. Audio samples from amazon.co.uk in .ra format

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1. Search your own internet cache.

Delete the contents of C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files then run
the streaming media file from it's host site. Now open
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files and with any luck you will find
the .rm file. This also works for other non-saveable stuff such as
Shockwave/Flash.

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2. Locate the .rm file from the downloaded .ram file.

Download the .ram file. Rename the filename extension to .txt to allow
it to be read by a plain text editor such as Notepad.

example: filename.ram renamed to filename.txt

Open the file in Notepad. The location of the ACTUAL media file should
be in plain text.

(Note. The filename extension should be .rm)

Copy and paste the address into your browser. You should be offered
the option to Open or Save the file.

Example:

Download dds.ram from the following address:

http://www.waramps.ca/multi/ddds.ram

Rename to dds.txt and open in Notepad. You should see the following
line of text.

http://www.waramps.ca/multi/ddds.rm

Copy this line of text to your browser, and Save the file to your HD.

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3. Locate the .rm file from the browser plugin.

Click on a link to run a RealMedia file. The RealMedia file will start
using the plugin. It will open in a new browser window. This gives the
option to run in a stand alone player.

Hover your mouse over 'Launch this in a standalone player' or
'Non-embedded Player' and the location of the .ram file is now shown
(You may need to maximise the window to see it)

For instance:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/nb/00377_4x3_nb.ram

Download the .ram file. Rename the filename extension to .txt to allow
it to be read by a plain text editor such as Notepad.

Open the file in Notepad. The location of the ACTUAL media file should
be in plain text.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/nationonfilm/nb/00377_4x3_nb.rm

Unfortunately, with this particular example, the address starts rtsp
instead of http (Real Time Streaming Protocol) see Technique 7 for a
solution to this.

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4. Open up Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and click View,
then Folder Options. Then click the "File types" tab and remove the
file association for RealMedia files. This causes windows to ask you
to either Open the file from its current location or Save it to disk
whenever it encounters a .rm file. When you're done downloading just
add the file type association for RealMedia .rm files to automatically
play in RealPlayer. Some systems do this automatically.

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5. Real7ime Converter (R7C) v1.1 is a converter of any RealPlayer(tm)
streaming medias (video and sound) to AVI/WAV/MP3 format. It is a
realtime converter because it does not manage Real Time Streaming
Protocol(tm) (RTSP) directly so the needed time to convert a media
will be greater or equal to the time of the media.

Homesite: http://r7cproj.euro.ru/indexe.htm

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6. Net Transport v1.94c is a download manager that supports RTSP
(Real-Time Streaming Protocol). This function is available in the
freeware version.

Run Net Transport and it places a small 'DropZone' target in the top
left hand corner of the screen. Drag a link from a website onto the
target.

Homesite: http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

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7. Net Transport (when link is javascript).

Run 'Net Transport', Select the destination folder by clicking on
Tools > Options > Download, browse to the folder you want and click
OK.

Clicking on a link on the BBC's 'Nation on Film' pages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/railways/

example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nationonfilm/00377?size=4x3&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1

This runs a javascript file that starts the media streaming in a new
browser window.

Right-click on the option to 'Launch this in standalone player'

Select 'Copy Link Location'

example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/nb/00377_4x3_nb.ram

To download the file. Click on the 'New' button in the toolbar. The
'Add New Download' dialog appears - with the address already copied
into the Source URL field - so, you just need to hit the OK button.

The .ram file is downloaded automatically followed by the .rm file.

example:

00378_4x3_nb.ram followed by 00378_4x3_nb.rm (906kb)

or

00378_4x3_bb.ram followed by 00378_4x3_bb.rm (2.7Mb)

Note. The letters nb in the filename denotes narrowband, bb in the
filename denotes broadband on the BBC site.

Download Net Transport from: http://www.netxfer.com/default.htm

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8. Audio samples from amazon.co.uk in .ra format.

Open a site in Firefox that contains links to .ra samples.

example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...1041/sr=8-10/ref=pd_ka_10/202-1418087-4491034

You will be invited to either 'Open with' or 'Save to Disk' a file
called hurl.exe.

Click on 'Open with' and choose firefox.exe

Firefox will open a new browser window and offer you the same two
choices 'Open with' or 'Save to Disk' for a file called something like
hurl.exe-2.ram

Choose Save to Disk. Rename the file extension from .ram to .txt and
read the contents.

You will see something like:

pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0674679_0101_00_0002.ra

Replace the 'pnm' with 'rtsp' and drop it into Net Transport.
 
On 10 Nov 2005, Kenny wrote
To do this in real time, download jetaudio basic (free)
www.jetaudio.com and press the recording option,
choose STEREO OUT for your recording source and choose an
encoder (I would suggest WMA). start recording and start your
streaming... whatever you hear from the speakers will be
recorded. (PS this means you should probably temporarily
disable the windows sounds from the control panel > sounds and
audio devices)
Click to expand...

I know it isn't allowed to mention payware in here, so I won't name
names. But this definitely treads into cost/benefit territory.

Given the hoop-jumping described in the other post to retrieve the
cache -- or, to me, even having to dive around to disable system
sounds -- I figure the one-off payment of 12 bucks US I paid four
years ago for a piece of solid software which does all of this --
as well as saving and/or converting to pretty well all major file
formats -- was one of the best software purchases I ever made.

Like anyone who reads this group, I prefer free solutions -- but
sometimes the benefits outweigh the costs. For me, this was one of
those times.
 
you only have to disable windows sounds if you are using the pc for other
things at the same time while you are recording.

I know shareware that can capture streams and I have used them.

WM and RM recorder is a good set of apps.

http://www.wmrecorder.com/
 
Please give the name.

Harvey Van Sickle said:
On 10 Nov 2005, Kenny wrote


I know it isn't allowed to mention payware in here, so I won't name
names. But this definitely treads into cost/benefit territory.

Given the hoop-jumping described in the other post to retrieve the
cache -- or, to me, even having to dive around to disable system
sounds -- I figure the one-off payment of 12 bucks US I paid four
years ago for a piece of solid software which does all of this --
as well as saving and/or converting to pretty well all major file
formats -- was one of the best software purchases I ever made.

Like anyone who reads this group, I prefer free solutions -- but
sometimes the benefits outweigh the costs. For me, this was one of
those times.
Click to expand...
 
On 12 Nov 2005, J Murphy wrote
I've used Total Recorder in the past (not since ver. 3), but
now use dbpower amp's Auxilary Input utility. Works like a
charm plus its free (unless saving to mp3):

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
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Thanks; I'll file that for future reference, in case TR breaks on
me. (I suspect it's been picked up by the radar of the
copyrighting-streaming-media folks; dunno what the future will
bring...)
 
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