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How to record radio broadcasts 24 Replies
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Old Time Radio Show Downloader 8 Replies
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mp3DirectCut
All you need to cut your mp3
"mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files." This is a very handy utility for working with MP3 files. The thing I like most about mp3DirectCut, it does not alter the quality of the file by re-encoding it, therefore, no quality is lost.. Great for trimming recorded internet radio for example. Also another plus it is Freeware.Old Time Radio Show Downloader
Here is a free gem, OTRDownloader, if you download any shows from the Internet Archive. I have been playing around with it, and it works like a top. Would be great for new collectors of OTR, as well as old, and especially those who are not internet savvy.
It was written by Hal Vaughan, a lover of Old Time Radio. He also has a blog at http://halblog.com/wordpress/
Quote from web site:
"The Internet Archive has a special section, under Old Time Radio, that is an archive containing, by my conservative estimate, well over 10,000 different episodes of different shows freely available for downloading. The shows are easily catagorized for searching and they are easily downloaded. There are, though, a few problems with downloading these files through a browser. It's hard to line up files so you can have your files downloaded when you're asleep or otherwise not using your computer. Last night I downloaded hundrededs, literally, hundreds of episodes from this site using my program, the Old Time Radio Show Downloader, or OTRDownloader.
Another issue with downloading shows straight from the web is that they don't have tags in them. Most of the radio shows on the Internet Archive are in MP3 format, but some are in Ogg Vorbis or FLAC formats (both of which are superior to MP3 files!). Just as with MP3s, Ogg and FLAC files can be tagged for classification with a title, artist, album, genre, and so on. If you download files from the Archive with a browser and want to tag them so you can easily sort through them on an MP3 player or with a juke box program, you have to take each file by hand. When I set OTRDownloader last night to download well over 500 files, I could never have managed to tag that many files by hand!
The OTRDownloader has a tag editor and title filters that make it easy to set tags for each radio show. The title editor takes the name of an episode from the filename and converts it into something readable. It's possible to use both the tag editor and title filters to have downloaded files tagged automatically.
The OTRDownloader is free to download and use. I do ask that you please email me if you find it useful. I won't pester you or ask for money, but it took over 100 hours to write this program, so it'd be nice to know about people that are using it. Let me know what city you live in or what kind of OTR shows you like or anything else interesting about yourself.
To use the OTRDownloader, you'll need Java, which you can download for free from Java.com."
Download It Here
Download the OTRDownloader for both Linux and Windows here.
Visit web site How to record radio broadcasts
I would like to get feedback from members regarding there favourite, easy to use and reliable program for recording recording radio shows off the Internet and converting to mp3. There are so many programs out there for recording radio broadcasts (internet), e.g. Audacity, Screamer, etc.
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Comment by My other half on June 30, 2008 at 12:59pm - Than you I hope we can get some lively discussions going here.
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Comment by katydidit on June 29, 2008 at 10:48pm -
Thanks for the invite. I know I had lots of questions about the site, programs, etc. when I first joined. Looking forward trying the Otter program.
Thanks, katy
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Comment by My other half on June 27, 2008 at 8:00pm
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Thanks for the input Mike. I've seen your name on the boards. Welcome to the Schoolhouse, I hope to learn a lot here. Where can we get these?
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Comment by Mike Hobart on June 26, 2008 at 11:41pm - My first book on OTR was Jim Harmon's "The Great Radio Heroes" back in 1969. In fact for about 15 years it was the only OTR book I'd seen. But I now have a copy of Dunnings' book and it is very useful.
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Comment by My other half on June 25, 2008 at 7:24pm
- Hey OTRBUFF I am told that John Dunnings On The Air is a good one.
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Comment by OTRBUFF on June 25, 2008 at 7:55am - Can anyone recommend their favorite OTR books? I NEED SOME SCHOOLIN'.
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Comment by GilinAZ on June 24, 2008 at 11:07am -
Thanks for the invite...glad to be here!
Gil
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Comment by Ricky Lynn on June 24, 2008 at 7:20am -
I'm very happy to join you in this thread. Thank you for the invitation.
Ricky
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Comment by calfkillerotr on June 23, 2008 at 7:55pm - This group was a good idea.
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