In article , marc writes:


Somebody any brands that will allow recording internet radio on USB?

There was DNT, or what was it called, also Sangean sometimes ...

Since you did not respond to my comment that computer based
internet radio software can probably record as well, I'll
relate an experiment I am doing.

I connected to a site I know about (auralmoon.com) via another
usenet poster who volunteers some engineering services to them.
It's billed as progressive rock but sounds pleasant enough.
I'm afraid younger listeners might even consider it elevator
music, but I like it.

When I selected the highest free streaming speed (56kb mp3), it came
up with a URL (http://auralmoon.com/playlinks/auralmoon56kmp3.pls)
which I am guessing is a playlist file, and popped up a window for
options of how to open it on my Windows 7 box. It includes Windows
Media Center, I believe (didn't know I had that), but I tried VLC,
a video player I use in other contexts.

It just came up and started playing the audio stream
[I noticed that the .pls file actually got saved on my hard
drive in a temp directory, so VLC may be running now from
a locally saved playlist].

I then looked around for ways to record. Under VLC's "audio"
menu I found a red record button and was able to press it,
but as far as I can tell it did nothing. That is, it
never offered to open an output file at that time, and when
I shut down and tried to exit, it never offered to save
anything it might have recorded.

There are plugins for VLC but I did not try to download any.

And the Volume Mixer (right mouse option on the speaker icon
in the taskbar) doesn't seem to do anything but vary the
volume from the various sources (including this stream) out
to the speakers.

Playback is high quality, though. It's just that VLC
under Windows 7 maybe don't have a way to route sound
in realtime to a file.

I'll look at other players, though, and update you. I
suspect Real Media/Real Player would be a good choice,
but do not believe I have it installed.

George