Okay, barely worth a thread, but... I want to record and burn-to-CD a couple of radio interviews. (they're just 4-minute interview-the-science-nerd type of things). So they're temporarily archived on the web, and I can play them with Real Audio. I have a computer that can burn CDs. I know this will sound stupid to many of you, but what can I do to get the audio onto the CD? These particular Real Audio files don't really keep any data on my hard-drive -- it's just has a web address that it accesses when I play them. I'm using a Dell with Windows, for what it's worth, just the work computer. ... Okay, put another way, I need to get these interviews in "wav" or "mpeg" format. I believe they're currently in a "ram" format.
Those streaming audio links are usually designed so that it is not saved on your hard drive. The only way I know of to get around that is to find a program that will record (usually into a WAV file) anything and everything that is played out of your speakers until you tell it to stop. I don't know the names of any of these programs, but I know my old roomate used to do this with some 'net radio broadcasts, and it seemed to work well for him.
assuming you have a decent audio card, couldn't you just connect sound out to a recording device such a min-disc player
Download TotalRecorder, which enables you to record streaming audio - it is very easy. I know you can record the audio as mp3, but I'm not sure about wav files. Either way, you can easily convert the mp3 to a wav and then burn it onto an CD. You can get TotalRecorder at www.highcriteria.com Not sure if the trial version will do the entire job for you though - you may need to pay for a license. Doing what smeg says is relatively easy, but if you really want it on CD, then you will have to record it back to your PC using the line in, and then burn it.
