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Article #1943Re: save realone streaming media?
From: JethroUK
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:18
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:18
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"...but you're going to end up with a compressed form of a pretty low bandwidth stream..." i've downloaded each part (72 meg) as is (.ra files not .mp3), off the beeb site & i assumed this is the same source as was originally broadcast - sounds fine to me - i was actually thinking of compressing them, since they wont fit on CD as they stand "Mark Stevens" <mcs@monolake.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:6af93vkus7f5m4t8o4lo10s7dup45a53n5@4ax.com... > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:36:30 -0000, JethroUK wrote: > > >I have just installed realone media player to listen to 'his dark materials' > >it's a 2 hour listen and i was wondering how to save it to disk? Any ideas? > > Everyone else has given some sensible advice, but I'll add a few more > suggestions. > > 1) Buy the series on CD. It's available now from BBC Audio, either as > three separate CDs or the whole trilogy in one pack. Apparently includes a > few scenes that were trimmed from the original broadcast(s) due to timing > reasons. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0563529288/ > > 2) MP3ing a RealOne stream is all well and good, but you're going to end > up with a compressed form of a pretty low bandwidth stream. If you're not > too bothered with quality, by all means go for it, but in future you may > want to consider tuning into radio via digital satellite and recording > directly to your favourite digital or analogue format for later > manipulation. > > > -- > Mark Stevens > http://www.insertdisc.com/
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