Re: Audio to MP3...

Roy Hammond wrote:
For many years now my wife has recorded onto cassette tape, from her hifi
unit using its programming facilities, the daily radio BBC R4 plays, talks,
and
the Archers, and then listens to them on her walkman while doing housework,
gardening, and so on.
....

Is there a kit or design, than I can buy and/or put together or build, that
will take the audio line output from the hifi unit and record onto a SD/MMC
card?

Or is there a better way?
....
Roy,

I also like to listen to the BBC programs but since I live in
California (I'm originally from England) I can't receive the programs
directly.

The BBC does not make many programs downloadable but most are available
live from their website or from from their "Listen Again" page at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

I play back the programs from the web site and capture them using the
virtual soundcard program TotalRecorder (from High Criteria), a similar
one called Messer is available for free
(http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlmesser.html).

As the program plays it creates an MP3 file. This MP3 file can then be
downloaded to an MP3 player (or put onto a CD etc).

I edit the programs where necessary either using the built-in
facilities of TotalRecorder or using MP3DirectCut (free).

For speech (plays, comedy programs etc) I use 32kbits/sec with 22.05KHz
sampling mono. This takes about 15MB/hour of recording so a 1GB MP3
player can store ~65Hours of programs. The BBC streams their material
using RealAudio (not MP3) at about 44Kbits/sec. Usually the quality is
quite adequate.

kevin

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