Recording Music or making MP3's...How??

[BigDog4All]

Ok, since Napster has seemed to have been desolved, I want to take advantage of the music channels. Running all OneChip EMU's. Now here we go:

1. Does anyone know of a way to create a WAV file or a MP3 file off the music channels?

2. Has anyone connected the Audio OUT of the IRD to the Input of a PC?

Looking for ideas....

Yes, one can just record to Mini-Disk or cassette, but that only creates a anolog file. It can then be converted to digital, with one of the music S/W packeages, but that takes a lot of time.

Is anyone doing this or have you thought about it?

I can only watch 59x's for so long, need to see if my Dog ears will still stand up.

Thanks...

[BrainDamage]

I have not done this myself, but there is no reason why you couldn't take the stereo output of your IRD and use the input on your sound card to record.

This would require that you have a higher end sound adapter with the proper inputs, but it can definatly be done.

Depending on the software you use to record, you'll be able to choose what format to record to, ie. .WAV, MP3, etc.

I record stereo audio and video all of the time using an Asus video capture board with my sound card. You could do the same with audio only.

Creative Labs makes some good cards that will do the trick.

Just watch the recording levels!

-BrainDamage

[BigDog4All]

I think I may have to get a minimum 40 GIG hard disk. If I record for 1 hour at a time, then slice into WAV's, might work. I have used Cool Edit Pro, to clean up the sounds, and I think it will let me process into MP3's

Already got Turntable connected to PC to transfer my Albums to CD's. This only crates WAV's, to be tranfered to CD's. Most might not remember Albums...the Really Big CD's.

Hope this all works...

[Krom]

There are also a few new services out there that are good replacements for Napster...try LimeWire. If you do a search here for mp3, a couple of weeks ago there was a good thread on a number of new free services popping up, and the pirate's favorites.

~K

Morpheus and WinMX are the two i have found to work best. you can exchange just about any kind of file. zip software,
mp3, avi, jpeg, movies, etc.

[quaddawg]

Yeah, just becuase Napster is done (for now) doesn't mean you have to give up sharing MP3's KazAa is good, audiogalaxy has its good points, plus the ones mentioned above and many more. learn the ftp way of nap-servers, napster wasn't all that hot anyway!


yes you can run the IRD stereo outs to a soundcard and record as wave and convert to MP3, but why?? talk about memory intensive.

[2gapa]

Does anyone make a sound card with a TOS-Link (Fiber Optic) input that will handle a 48Khz PCM output from an IRD?

[travis_cornell]

You can use Music Match JukeBox to convert from mp3 to wav format. They do have a free download version. This program will also make(rip) mp3's from your own cd's.

[Phuqem]

This will probably sound way out to some of you guys, but has anyone recorded without resampling? One of the chips decodes the data right? Anyway to intercept the data and record it rather than having the receiver decompress it, record it and recompressing it again losing quality twice? I don't know enough about hardware to attempt this, but I'm curious if anyone else has tried