This method is ideal to record long period of time from a radio station (e.g. talk radio). There are many ways to do this but this uses free tools.
These are very “quick and dirty” instructions that assume basic computer knowledge.
Copy and paste youre radio stream into VLC by opening Media->Open Network Stream->copy in the url. If it starts playing, go to Tools->codec information in VLC and make sure it says “mpeg” audio or something similar. In any event if VLC plays it shoudl work. If the url ends with “m3u” or “pls” right click on the link, download the file and open it in note pad and get the real link. For example, in the example above the real link to the stream is: http://pubint.ic.llnwd.net/stream/pubint_kmfa
"c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "http://pubint.ic.llnwd.net/stream/pubint_kmfa" -I dummy --dummy-quiet --sout "#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=c:\audio\KMFA-895-radioe%date:~10%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%.mp3}" --stop-time 3600 vlc://quit
The stop time is the number of seconds to record. Here it is set for one hour (60 x 60). The c:\audio line is the path to your output file with some extra batch variables thrown in to automatically add date and time of recording.
I won’t go into details on this but here’s link that gives general instructions:
Also, some written instructions on using the task manager from LifeHacker.
That’s it!
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