How do I capture an Internet audio stream?

In relation to your column of 12/30 discussing utilities that will allow recording of streaming audio, I woudl recommend Voeytra. It ahs a componeent calle Disc Orchestrator that does a bank up job recording anything that can come off your Windows sound card. It is especially good if you have a lot of cassettes, vinyl, or 8 tracks you want to burn to CDs. There are other components to the software as well that the buyers will find useful. It costs around $40 though it is probalby cheaper now.

Heh. The absolute best program for saving any sort of streaming audio is Net Transport, at http://www.xi-soft.com . Net Transport is primarily a segmented download manager, but also has the ability to download all of the major streaming media formats (Real, Windows Media, and QuickTime) directly to your hard drive. The program doesn't have any spyware, and keeps a fairly small memory footprint. Technically, the program is shareware, but I have the last freeware version on my site, http://pad.olsonnetwork.com/downloads/ . Enjoy!

Clint Olson
http://www.olsonnetwork.com

audiograbber-free
[ total recorder is not free and sound quality is poor imho]

PolderbitS Sound Recorder captures streaming sound beautifully, I already tried it.

Although the website does not advertise it to be able to captures streaming sound but it does work. Just start the program, then listen to your streaming audio as usual, PolderbitS Sound Recorder will record the sound as you listen.

5 star!

i-Sound WMA MP3 Recorder http://www.abyssmedia.com/capture-streaming-audio.shtml work perfectly for me.

Try http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
It's free, and I'm using it as I type this :)

I always see notes, comments, suggestions about software... what does one use for software? His audio card with one in?

Here is a lot of streaming audio recorders(shareware and freeware) http://www.topmediatools.com/Streaming_Audio_23/

totalrecorder is a very good program, ive used it quite often. however it takes over your audio settings, and i started to get audio problems on games, so i had to uninstall totalrecorder on my main computer. i still use it, but just on a computer i record my own music on. and dont use that computer for anything else.

Ripcast http://www.xoteck.com/ripcast/ is the best program to record streams.

I use FlashGet software: right click on player -> Properties -> Location -> find the location of file then I can capture it with FlashGet.

I have to say that I have bought a program called Jaksta for all of my streaming media recording needs. So easy and rather inexpensive at $29.95.

http//:www.jaksta.com

I found a simple way to capture internet audio stream,
http://www.recordstreamingaudio.net/how-to-record-streaming-audio-off-the-internet.html

Thank you, PolderbitS Sound Recorder captures treaming sound beautifully. Its been at great help.

Is there any software that will help me capture the digital audio stream independent of the volume settings of the sound-card ?
Most of the softwares that are featured here will record anything from the sound-card, but the quality of the recorded audio suffers from the quality of the sound-card and in addition the volume settings affect the quality too, too high a volume setting will clip the audio peaks and introduce distortion.

Most sound recorders required "Stereo Mix" input or install virtual audio devices.
Take a look on this sound recorder for Windows 7/Vista http://www.abyssmedia.com/isound7/
It not install fake sound cards and get audio directly from speakers.

hi! Kirk is Captain "Tom Kirk"? :)