Do any of you l33t hax-sawz know a way to capture this Red Bull Music Academy player's stream?

July 16, 2009 8:07 PM

Do any of you l33t hax-sawz know a way to capture this Red Bull Music Academy player's stream?

I have a visceral need to keep this Holy Ghost mix of old rare disco tracks for mine forever and ever and ever.

But I dont know how.

Any takers?

Acid Burn?
Lord Nikon?
Zero Cool?

posted by Senor Cardgage to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

Best answer: Doesn't audacity have a feature that allows you to record the output of the soundcard?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Install audacity, fire up the stream, record it in audacity, and then transcode to MP3. You may need to install the LAME encoder for MP3 output.
posted by cosmicbandito at 8:35 PM on July 16, 2009

Total Recorder always worked for me on Windows. If you can play it, you can record it.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:08 PM on July 16, 2009

PC or Mac? Audio Hijack Pro for the mac will do this.
posted by acro at 9:09 PM on July 16, 2009

Audio Hijack Pro will definitely be able to record from any source on your computer. For most uses, it makes sense to pay for it (it looks like it's $32 now?), and purchasing is necessary if you want to record files longer than 10 minutes.

On preview: what acro said (and I forgot it was Mac-only).
posted by sleepinglion at 9:16 PM on July 16, 2009

Response by poster: Mac.

And thanks everybody!

Yer all some scholarly owls with yer graduation caps on.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 9:17 PM on July 16, 2009

During/after listening: If you root around in your Firefox cache and sort by timestamp, and pull the latest object of a few thousand kb, you'll have an mp3 file that can be renamed appropriately. Run it through MediaInfoGUI first to double-check. The longer you wait, the more of the stream you'll get; I'm not sure if the Holy Ghost player will let you pull down the whole hour and retain it by listening all the way thru, but I get a file that grows by the appropriate size as I keep an eye on it. The full file should be ~450 MB.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 9:19 PM on July 16, 2009

Out of interest, is there any application that will do this for video?
posted by Gomez_in_the_South at 5:28 AM on July 17, 2009

the firefox add-on Video Download Helper works really well, if the video is on a site it supports.
posted by nomisxid at 8:23 AM on July 17, 2009

Thanks nomisxid, I'll have a look at that. I was using a different Firefox extension before, but it never worked consistently. I guess it's a cat and mouse game between the video sites and the tools.
posted by Gomez_in_the_South at 9:02 AM on July 17, 2009

It's a little pricey (I use it for work), but Snapz Pro is an awesome Mac video/audio capture tool.
posted by yellowbinder at 1:03 PM on July 17, 2009