Re: Recording the Archers

Waiting for Daff's Caff to re-open, Mike Headon living at decided to tell uk.media.radio.archers that
Rick Hughes wrote:
sounds ideal ... I'll give it a go
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"Rick Hughes" <rick_hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dmlalg$28g$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Due to time available I have never been able to listen in the evenings, and always listed to TA via recording the omnibus edition and playing back on way to work in the car.

Recently I had been using Freeview to record TA, recording to my DVD player.. Transferring it to Cassette later for listening to in the car.

Bad news though is that new car has no cassette ... (I guess these are going same way as VCR tapes)

Does anyone know if there is a simple way of transferring audio recording on a DVD hard-disk (or removable DVD RAM disk) to MP3 ? I could then listen to my MP3 player either direct or by the built in hook up in the car.

I know you get the 'listen again' option on the web site, but I can't see how to download the file, only seems to work in streaming 


Anybody know better ?

Rick 


What you need to do is to actually download the audio file.

The Archers audio files are always located at the following address: <rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/archers/archers_???.ra>

The three question marks must be replaced by sun / mon / tue / wed / thu / fri depending on which day you want to download. The omnibus is at <rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/archers/archers_omnibus.ra>.

Notice the rtsp instead of http. This is the Real Time Streaming Protocol which Internet Explorer, Firefox nor Opera can handle properly. If you enter the location address into any of these browsers, all they do is just launch Real Player and then stream the audio. So you need to have something like Net Transport <http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm>.

Enter the location address into Net Transport and choose where you want to save the file. You can then play this through Real Player even if you are not connected to the internet. This can be useful for people with dial-up connections as a 15 minute Archers episode takes a no more than a couple of minutes to download on a 56k connection. On my broadband connection it takes about 3 seconds!

If your mp3 player supports Real Audio then just transfer it. But if not, then you can convert the Real Audio to mp3 using the free version of Wavepad <http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/>.

I hope this is helpful to you.

Ahoyhoy


I read your article with interest, installed Net Transport and started to download the omnibus. It says it is going to take 10 hours!
I am on a 2Meg connection. Have I done something wrong, or has Auntie throttled the service?

on my 512 connection the omnibus takes about 35 minutes to download - it always seems to be about half the real running time.
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