How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 1
My son loves to listen to the radio.
He has a radio cassette recorder in his room and when he wants to record something that he hears, he simply presses the button and the recording is made on the tape cassette.
In my living room I have a rather more sophisticated DVD hard disc recorder so that I can record television shows for the purpose of timeshifting. That is, so I can watch a film which is shown at two o’clock in the morning at a time convenient for me.
So it all seems very easy.
Unfortunately, when it comes to recording from the Internet, the situation is not so simple.
The broadcasters and producers of music and speech and the consumers have managed to get themselves into a great big mess.
Producers and consumers have simply not managed to come to an agreement concerning copying digital material which they both accept as fair and legal.
Now when it comes to copying from the internet so that we can listen at our own convenience, the situation is quite complicated.
There are two main considerations:
One is the technical one.
How do we actually record from the Internet Radio?
There are many software programs available, which you can buy and some of them even have names like BBC radio recorder.
Now, I’m going to tell you again that this site, Free Books Plus is based on legal and legitimate free audio and print books, so I don’t want to get into any grey areas.
My proposal is to first of all discuss the technical means of copying from the Internet Radio using free software and then secondly, to have a look at how we can copy from an Internet radio station, when it legal.
If you play a radio station in RealPlayer and the record button is active, it means that this radio station has not tried to block the recording system.
Now, in order to make your recordings from the Internet Radio, I’m going to advise downloading two pieces of free software.
The first one is a program called audiograbber.
In order to make audiograbber work correctly to produce the MP3 files that you probably want, you will then have to download another piece of software called LAME.
Here are the internet addresses which are also available on the resources page.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Audiograbber.htm
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Encoder.htm
In the next post there’ll be more advice on how to use these pieces of software, and eventually how to make your recordings.
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