Ok, I'll have a go but I can't guarantee success (I haven't got a Masters in Computer Science and don't work with computers
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First you need to download Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
And click on the Audacity Installer.
Follow the on-screen instructions and accept the default locations.
Once it complete it will load up Audacity. You should close it down.
Now you need to download the MP3 encoder, LAME:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/lame.html
Click on any of the lame-3.96.1 links and it should download.
Once it is downloaded you need to unzip it. Double click on the file you downloaded and one of 2 things will happen:-
a) A normal windows view of all the files appears with an option to "extract files" in the upper left corner. Click to extract the files.
b) Winzip opens. I haven't got this installed so just try and find the option to extract the files.
When it asks where to extract them to, enter the following:
C:\Program Files\Audacity\Plug-Ins\LAME
This assumes you installed Audacity into the default folder. You should be able to navigate through folders as far as "Plug-Ins" but you need to create the "LAME" folder.
Right, that's everything installed, all it needs now is some tweaking.
Open the BBC radio site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
and click on the "Launch BBC Radio Player" button on the right hand side. This now lets you choose what you want to listen to. Pick anything and start it playing.
Now open Audacity (should be a link on your desktop). There should be a box in the upper right hand side with a list of audio options in it (microphone, mono mix, etc). Select "Stereo Mix".
Now click the record button at the top and you should see something happening! If it does, click stop, you now have enough to do the test.
Go back to the BBC radio player and click pause (to stop the audio).
Go back to Audacity and click play. You should near the BBC program you were listening to.
Now you need to create the MP3. Click "File" - "Export As MP3". You get an option of what to call the file and where to put it, choose "test" and save it to the desktop. You should then get a message box asking for the location of the LAME dll. Click ok and then, when prompted, navigate to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Audacity\Plug-Ins\LAME
Double click on the file called "lame_enc.dll"
It should now create the MP3 on your desktop. If it has, click the file on the desktop and you should hear the BBC again!
Now all you need to do to record the programs is:
- Open Audacity and select "Stereo Mix".
- Click "Record".
- Start the BBC program playing.
- Once it is finished, click "stop" in Audacity.
- "Select "File" - "Export As MP3" and choose a location and filename.
I hope this helps :? If it doesn't work, try getting someone else to go through it (they usually spot something you've missed). Failing that, I've only done this once (20 mins ago) so have no idea why it might not be working.
Cheers
Rich
