OK, so now you’ve downloaded and configured audiograbber, how are we going to actually record our audiobook from the Radio.
Well, there’s an immediate easy way and the scheduled way.
The easy way is to wait until the programme you want to record starts and then hit the Record button on Real Player or Audio Grabber.
Real Player will tell you if recording is permitted. As I only recommend legal methods of obtaining recordings I’ll concentrate on Radio where recording is allowed.
The scheduled way is more sophisticated. It means you can go out to dinner, go to bed, and when you get back your recording is all ready on your computer in the mp3 format.
Here’s how.
You need to choose your programme.
For the purposes of this tutorial I’ve chosen today’s broadcast of one of my favourite books, Gilbert White’s the “Natural History of Selbourne” on Spoken Word Internet Radio Station. If you’ve forgotten it’s (http://www.audiobookradio.net/index.php).
Go to Programme Schedule and the broadcast is scheduled for 3.39pm / am.
Obviously you can just leave the radio streaming until you’re ready to record but a better way might be to schedule when you want the broadcast to start. If you’ve forgotten how to do this, or haven’t read the Post Tutorial, you can find it here: (Let’s Schedule “The Dead Hand” by Wilkie Collins)
My tip is to set the start time a little earlier than scheduled.
Next, it’s time to open up Audiograbber and set the timer to record the programme when it’s broadcast:
Make sure it’s in Line In Sampling mode and play a sound file to make sure the Mixer is used for recording as discussed last Post – i.e. checking that the record level is working.
AudioGrabber is easy to set up. If your recording is on the same day, just write the day in where it says date. For time use the same system as your computer clock – in my case 17:35:00 and the length is in hours and minutes.
If you get stuck, Audiograbber has excellent help files.
Now you’re ready to go away and leave your computer to make the recording.
You can ask Audiograbber to shut down the computer when it’s finished.
This doesn’t always seem to work for me so we’ll check some other shut down programmes in another post.
For the moment you might like to download these two programmes for the final clean up.
MP3 Cut
and
Vista Shutdown Timer
Details on the Free Resources Page.
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