Recording Live Audio from the Internet Using Audacity (make an ogg vorbis file) Presented by Dave Mawdsley, DACS Member, Linux SIG June 20, 2012

1 General Usage Notes 1. Obtain an audio patch cable. (audio plug at each end) 2. Plug the cable into both the audio in and audio out jacks. (Audio from the live audio on the Internet comes out the ear phone jack and then back into the audio in jack for the recording program to use.) 3. Start your browser and locate the live audio you want to record but don't start the playing of it yet. 4. Start Audacity in the same workspace if possible.

2 Usage Notes Continued 5. Click on the Circle button in Audacity to begin the recording and quickly go to the browser and click the play button. At the end of the play of the audio, in Audacity click the Square button to stop the recording. 6. Go the File menu and Export as an Ogg Vorbis file.

Final Comments 3 Convert mymusic.ogg to mymusic.wav using: oggdec mymusic.ogg (makes the new file) Then convert mymusic.wav to mymusic.mp3 with: mpg123 -w mymusic.mp3 mymusic.wav (destination file listed first)

Recording Live Audio from the Internet Using Audacity (make an ogg vorbis file) This LibreOffice.org Presentation 'reclvaud.odp' can be downloaded from http://madmod.com/freebies.html