How to Record Free Audio Books from the Radio - Part 2
Ok so you’ve grabbed Audiograbber and you’ve downloaded the LAME files - especially the dll. So it’s time to set things up.
Open Audiograbber and you’ll get a screen like this:
Before we can use it, we have to decide on a few options using the Settings tab.
First of all, in General Settings decide where to save the new recordings? You can choose any directory you like but I like to have a directory only for my recordings.
The next step is to make sure we can record directly to the mp3 format.
Because MP3 files are so widespread many people assume that it’s a free standard. It isn’t, so we must find a free decoder. The standard is LAME. The name in fact means LAME Ain’t an Mp3 Encoder!
Anyway, you must download LAME and make sure the relevant files are loaded into the same directory as your Audiograbber installation. Here’s how it is on my computer.
The next stage is to set your MP3 settings:
There are lots of views on this but I prefer high quality rather than the smallest file so I use variable bitrate settings. Here’s how my settings look.
Now we’re almost ready to make our first recording.
choose line in sampling from the File menu.
You should get this without the green volume bar.
Check the volume meter. No volume, no recording. It’s as simple as that.
Here’s where things get a little bit tricky because operating systems and setups vary a bit.
Play something on your computer, music, voice, anything.
If the volume meter shows up and gets shorter and longer, you’re in luck.
If not, you must make sure that your recording system is set to mixer, not line in or microphone.
Try clicking the mixer button - you might be in luck.
If you’re like me you’ll have to go to the audio manager. My computer uses the popular Realtek manager and it’s in the Control Panel reached through the start menu.
When you’re in the control panel, find the sound effect icon
Then make sure the stereo mix control is highlighted.
Now everything is ready for recording.
Audiograbber will, indeed, grab any sound on the computer and you can see that you can record manually just by setting the time in minutes and pressing the record button or you can choose time scheduled.
Next post we’ll make the actual recording.
Footnote:
Audiograbber is a Windows only programme. Users of other operating systems my like to try Audacity the current, stable version doesn’t include a timer facility but the new Beta version does. I’ll look at it closer later.
I got this information from this post at RichardCravey.com thanks
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