BBC radio recording - Why don't you recommend BBC Radio Ripper?

#3 12-22-2007, 06:25 AM

Dear Stream Recorder,

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Originally Posted by BAW30s

I have taken a great interest in your site, as I do like to record streaming real audio from the BBC (I live in the UK) which has many excellent speech programmes.

Up to now, I have generally accomplished this through the sound card using Sound Forge for the recording. This offers many options and does produce good results, but naturally suffers from the disadvantages associated with using the sound card, i.e. having to record in real time and not being able to use the computer for anything else during the recording for fear of introducing extraneous sounds or interrupting the process.

I have therefore experimented with a number of downloaders and stream recorders with a view to making direct recordings, but mostly with poor or no results.
Downloaders, such as HiDownload , are quite useless. I have tried several.

Replay Radio (Replay AV) does work, but again it uses the sound card and offers less control than editing with Sound Forge.

I have tried your recommended program, WM Recorder, but with no success whatever, even if I open the .ram file in Notepad and use that text.

R7C does make a recording, but totally out of synch; furthermore, the problem of it exhausting the RAM memory is disruptive after 20 minutes or so. Curiously it does produce acceptable sound results if the sound is recorded to an avi video file. The right codec might help: I have the K-Lite Mega Pack installed, so I should be prepared.

If anyone has actually succeeded in using WM or R7C with BBC radio, I'd like to know how they did it.

Curiously, the only program I have found effective is BBC Radio Ripper, which does download the streaming audio and convert it to MP3. I am surprised, then , that you only give it 3/10 when it is the only one for me which works!
Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this.

Thank you for your opinion, Bernard. It is very important for our community.

WM Recorder is really my favorite stream recording software. Why would I prefer to use it with BBC? Because I record not only web radio, but also TV shows (like my favorite BBC hi tech show The Click).

BBC offers video streams in Real video and Windows Media format. Windows media is much easier to record so I prefer to save it to hd instead of Real Video.

WM Recorder has three different modes. You can try ADA Auto recording mode first. When you use it, you just need to play your stream and it will be captured automatically.

Replay AV (former Replay Radio) has two ways of recording: recording from your sound card and stream capturing. So you can try the latter.

I don't really use HiDownload, but another download manager called NetTransport is very good at recording both audio and video streams from BBC.

Why don't I recommend BBC Radio Ripper? Because it has too few features for the price it has. As for the low rating, it is that low 'coz BBC Radio Ripper supports Real Audio streams only and in the rating I try to reflect the amount of different stream formats that audio stream ripper can handle.