How can I record the audio for a radio station I'm streaming LIVE?

buddybelk wrote:

How can I record the audio for a radio station I'm streaming LIVE?

I don't want to record the sound in my room, but only on the sound I'm streaming

There are several Third Party Recorders

that will do as you ask. Many use Audacity

and seem to be happy with the results. Do check on any copyright infringements on the material being recorded first.

Cheers

Pete

You want to use Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. It will capture the audio stream (in real time) and save it in whatever format you choose. A highly-rated app from a reputable Mac developer.

I noticed that no one answered your question so I thought I would.

Quality-wise, recording directly from the stream is much better than trying to grab the audio after it has been sent to the speakers. The reason you don't want to record from your speakers, especially a macbook, is because the speakers can not replicate the full sound spectrum so you will end up with very thin and tinny audio. If you wanted to record in a "quiet" room from the speakers, you would want a very nice system that could accurately reproduce the music (expensive) and you would want to remove or limit all audio reflections from the walls or it will sound like you recorded the audio inside of a room. It modifies the original sound of the audio. That is why a studio album sounds so much different from a live album. I hope this helps.

Bottom-line, grab the streaming audio before it hits the speakers via an app of some sort.

I don't know if this question has been answered yet but the easiest way I have found. If you have an external audio card, simply route the headphones output to an input using a patch cable and record your headphone output as your input. If in stereo you can split the signal, otherwise simply record in mono on one channel.

I hope this helps.
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Funny post. Was looking for a way to record a live stream. And I'm lol. I guess some people don't get it?

I do have Audacity. So I need another program alongside Audacity? Soundflower?

Yes Quicktime will do it. If you have an external sound card all you need is when choosing the input source to select it's driver rather than the apple built in one and it

will record real streaming audio!!!

I'm on 10,11,6 and I downloaded and installed Spoonflower to go with Audacity and the two are working well for me! Instructions are great except: restart Mac after installing both Audacity and Spoonflower just to make sure.

Spoonflower is the key. If in Step 10 you don't see Soundflower as Recording Device (microphone) you need to restart.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_mac.h tml

Why would you go out and be a Turkey to this young gentleman. Why your comment remains is beyond me. If you have nothing civil to say when putting in your two cents, then say nothing at all.

My suggestion: take a line in to your aux input (next to headphone/speaker out on the back of your Mac) from another device (iPad, PC, Radio...) streaming the audio.

Look into VLC. I think you can add a stream for input and it'll save the output to, say, mp3 or what-have-you.