Recording Streaming Audio (yahoo videos, .pls, .asx, etc... )

Recording Streaming Audio (yahoo videos, .pls, .asx, etc... )

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Many people ask me how to record audio from yahoo videos, soundboards, and most all playlists (.pls or .asx) to their hard drives in .mp3 or .wav format. Well, today is your lucky day b/c. I'm letting the cat out of the bag.

Let us hypothetically suggest that DI.fm (digitally imported) and all Electronic music artists grant you the permission to copy their music to your HDD, what will you do:

a) Just sit their and keep listening b) buy as many external HDD and start saving the audio?

(spoiler: it's not A)

To get to the meat of the tutorial… what you need to do is:

Open up your [SOUND RECORDER] (Start –> Programs –> Accessories –> Entertainment –> sound recorder )

Notice how when you click RECORD is get its input from the microphone and records your voice. We will try to "hack" this process and make it record from the computer.

To do this:

a. Double Click your VOLUME control from your system tray, go to PROPERTIES. Make sure () Playback is NOT checked. And (X) Recording is checked.

b. In, "Show the following Volume Controls" Check (X) STEREO MIX and uncheck () MICROPHONE

Now, you're set to go. So test out your configuration, by actually recording a streaming audio playlist (I recommend di.fm). Click on a playlist so it plays, and get SOUND RECORDER ready. When you want to record press RECORD, and when you want to stop, just press STOP. Play the recording to hear what you recorded. SAVE it if you like it and are done. It's saved as .wav (but you can convert it to .mp3 easily with the new Windows Media Player 11 converter).

NOTE1: Sound Recorder has a limit of 1min recording, I haven't twiddled around with it to max its recording time, but I think audacity might record longer…

NOTE2: This article is not meant for people who already know this stuff. This method is NOT the only way to record streaming audio from the internet.