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Listening to documentaries on iPod
Posted by adze thuggery on 4 August 2009 - 7:27am.
Just been listening to the first part of the Lee Scratch Perry documentary on 6music last night, recorded on my DAB radio. It made me realise that I have a large number of documentaries from radio on my iPod, and wonder if anyone else does the same. 6music is good at broadcasting old ones that I missed in the past (enjoyed parts 1 and 2 of The Story of Ska), Radio 2 does lots (many about artists, or albums, or events) and I've some from Radio 4 and World Service too.
I'm sure many of us listen to these programmes, but do others carry them about on their iPods?
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I'd love to..
But have no idea how to record them.
I have a DAB radio - but no facility to record.
Any guidance would be appreciated..
Download them
Most, if not all the 6Music documentaries are now available as an MP3 download from the iPlayer site if you use the iplayer downloader (http://po-ru.com). Admittedly they are normally part of a longer show but a 2 hour show normally takes me only about 2 minutes to download and it's easy to chop out the bit you need with Goldwave or Audacity or similar and the advantage is that you don't need to run any sort of scheduler.
does your dab radio
have an "audio out" socket my roberts does. If it does you just attach to computer sound card and use audacity to record the show. You could also plug into a earphone socket. If you have a lap top and so no sound card do a search for "ripping vinyl" on this site and there's a couple of threads covering this.
Pure Bug
Sorry, I can't help. I was lucky enough to win my Pure Bug DAB radio in a newspaper competition. It records onto an SD card that I can then put into my PC. Chris's comments sound spot on. An alternative I have used is to listen to the programme on the PC and stream record it (I use Audio Recorder For Free, but many use Audacity as Chris mentions).
Use iTunes
I listen to docos and other podcasts a lot. iTunes is fantastic - you can organise which eps to download, which to keep etc. It takes a bit of mucking around but the facility is there.
Being an Anglophile kind of chap from the Antipodes I love the BBC docos - the Interview, Digital Planet, From Our Own Correspondent etc (not to mention The Word podcast of course).
There's all sorts of stuff there on iTunes but you have to hunt for it - go to something you like and click on the "listeners also bought/listened to" section on the right.
Iplayer Recording
Try this: http://po-ru.com/projects/iplayer-downloader/
Found out about this on this very site and it is a brilliant program. Get the id code for the show from the showpage on the BBC site, enter it into the box and it saves it as a MP3.
Hope this helps.
Ian
learn out loud is pretty good
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory
i especially like the famous speeches which are free downmloads, kennedy, martin luther king, mandela and particularly malcolm X -remarkable ,
This American Life
Great spoken word podcasts available free from iTunes or direct from National Public Radio in the US.
With a copy of Audacity you can record any audio stream on your PC in reasonable quality - as long as you're not running Vista.
I'm an old hand
I've been doing it for years, mainly 6Music, in fact I used to do it back in the days when I used mini discs for my portable listening.
If you miss anything on 6Music it's bound to be on again, they must have played the full 52 part Story of Pop at least 4 times now.