recording BBC radio 3 live HD broadcasts - how?

[clive]

Hi all, I'm very new to all of this so please make allowances

What I want to do:

I want to be able to record the HD live stream from BBC Radio 3 on my lap top in as higher quality as possible. I then want to be able to convert the recorded data to a FLAC file to play back on my HI-FI system at a later date.

Can I do this with Audacity, I have been trying to get a decent recording but so far have failed. I'm not a computer person but I am a Hi-Fi person. I can successfully connect my laptop to my Hi-Fi via a DAC to lay back recorded data.

The bit I'm struggling with is how to capture the HD stream from the BBC and what the correct settings are in Audacity, I have read the help files but they haven't helped.

I'm using the latest Beta version on a Windows 7 high power laptop.

Any help very gratefully received.

Clive

[steve]

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Note that BBC radio transmissions are likely to be subject to copyright restrictions.

[waxcylinder]

Note that BBC radio transmissions are likely to be subject to copyright restrictions.

But I also note that the BBC have been more than careless with many valuable items that they broadcast in the past - often by wiping over or simply losing tapes - to the extent that they actually broadcast requests for those of us that may have recorded such "lost" material to let the BBC have a copy.

A good example was in the Mike Harding folk&roots show on R2 this very evening where they re-broadcast live recordings made by the Beeb way back in 1965 - and the recordings were lost until 2001 - and worse still only being rebroadcast in 2011. In case they "lose" them again I am curently using Audacity to "archive" these recordings as I write.

WC

For my money the really criminal re-use of tape by the Beeb was when they recorded over the recordings of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. Mind you I'm no better myself - I'm down to a mere thirteen precious recordings of Alexis Korner's shows that I had on tape (now digi-bitted with Audacity and living on my iPod) as I used to record over my previous taped recordings.

[waxcylinder]

Clive,

the link that Steve pointed you at is a useful one - but I have just noticed that you are using Windows 7 on a laptop. Many modern platforms are making it harder or impossible to record what is playing on the computer (in an attempt to thwart piracy) - W7 tends to be one of those. It's one of the key reasons that I insisted that Dell "downgrade" my laptop to XP-Pro when I bought it a couple of years ago.

My wife got around that problem on her new W7 laptop by buying a piece of software called TotalRecorder ($17.95) which does an excellent job. Once she has catured the recording she then uses Audacity for the editing. You can get TotalRecorder from here: http://www.highcriteria.com/

WC