Record streaming music

[Detailed Infinity]

This is a nice little application for recording any streaming music from the web. Full .wav or adjustable mp3 ideal for recording from Spotify--but that's illegal isn't it?????

http://www.wavosaur.com/streamosaur/

Bri

[Didier]

I already have Replay Media Catcher which records audio and video streaming, but it's not a freeware.

There is also DownloadHelper which is an add-on for Firefox.

Didier

[ecca]

Surely Sound Recorder does it anyway ?

[Graylion]

This is a nice little application for recording any streaming music from the web. Full .wav or adjustable mp3 ideal for recording from Spotify--but that's illegal isn't it?????

http://www.wavosaur.com/streamosaur/

Bri

Perhaps it's just me but I've just tested this using an existing MP3 on my PC, saving the recording as a WAV file and the quality was unusable! Like listening to music down a poor landline telephone! Have I missed something? I'll try playing/recording a good YouTube video next.

[Detailed Infinity]

This is a nice little application for recording any streaming music from the web. Full .wav or adjustable mp3 ideal for recording from Spotify--but that's illegal isn't it?????

http://www.wavosaur.com/streamosaur/

Bri

Perhaps it's just me but I've just tested this using an existing MP3 on my PC, saving the recording as a WAV file and the quality was unusable! Like listening to music down a poor landline telephone! Have I missed something? I'll try playing/recording a good YouTube video next.

You may have been recording at too high a level and caused high clipping and distortion.

Here's a BBC clip from yesterday streamed using 128kbps, sounds ok to me.

Bri

[Detailed Infinity]

And here's the waveform playing in Soundforge which shows the recording level with no clips at all. All I can say is look at the waveform you recorded and see what the peak level is. Should be no higher than 0.0dB.

Didier and Eric, yes I realise there's a host of stuff out there for streaming.

Bri.

[Graylion]

We must be talking about different software. I have the very crude & basic Streamosaur which has no controls whatsoever. Definitely not recorded at too high a level as it very quiet and thin - no bass to speak of. It shows as a small black background window with the options to "Set" a file location and choose WAV or MP3. No user controls at all.

[Detailed Infinity]

Well you have the correct GUI--black background etc. My stream was put into Sound Forge to illustate the non clipped waveform. I think you'll agree that the posted BBC clip recorded was ok so I don't understand how you've got a bad recording. However I find it intriguing. Would you post a small section on this thread unadulterated and I'll do some diagnostics?

Bri