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Can anyone help me . I'd like to record a radio stream from BBC7 (Big Fan)
How Do I go about it . is there an app I can get to stream and download it to my iMac ?.. Is this legal ?

Give AUDACITY (FREE) or Audio HiJack ($16US)a try

And here is a link that covers how to record BBC Radio w/ Audacity: LINK!

You cannot select those inputs in the OS X version as far as I can tell...

Thats True. I have just tried it. I think the link covers a windows version

Audio hiJack works fine It even sends the result to iTunes for me.

Thanks

Kilted1 said:

Can anyone help me . I'd like to record a radio stream from BBC7 (Big Fan)
How Do I go about it . is there an app I can get to stream and download it to my iMac ?.. Is this legal ?

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There are a few good choices, depends on how you want to do it which works the best. If your going to be there and just take what you want then i would recommend a program called Wire Tap. Works just great and allows you many configurations on what settings and formats to save in.

If, however, you want to just turn it on and go away for an hour or so then i would recommend a program called Radio Lover. It kicks out the talk and advertisements and gives you the music in its own folder per artist.

You should be able to find each on Version Tracker, or google the names.

As for the legality, it mostly would depend on just what you intend to do with the capture. I think you can safely say that using it commerically would be a no no...

Thanks for the input Guys.
I have now used Audio Highjack (Wish they would change the name) And used it to record radio plays which I can build into audiobooks with Audiobook builder.
Works just great

Great News!

The great thing about Audio HiJack is that it will record ONLY the stream and not other sounds your Mac makes like mail notify, iChat whisp, etc. I don't know if WireTap does this (it probably does) but I have Audio HiJack Pro (sprang for the $32US) and it ROCKS!

As for the legality I don't know about the UK, but here in the States there's a thing called Fair Use which the content providers are trying desparately to abolish. In the meantime if you don't sell or share what you record [for someone in the USA] it's OK.