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MP3myMP3 Recorder saves any audio you hear on your computer

mp3mymp3.com — Record internet radio and save to mp3 or wav. Record streaming audio from the Internet, microphone, or any other source for that matter. MP3myMP3 Recorder works directly with your system sound card - if you can hear it, you can record it

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  • NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I tried this a couple days ago and I was very dissapointed with the quality of the final result. This is coming from somebody with an X-Fidelity xtreme music sound card and Sennheiser HD280s. I had it on max quality and it was still bad. Not cool.
    • JoeMenthol, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Try Super MP3 Recorder. I've really only used it once to get around some stupid DRM, but I was pretty happy with the results. It took a while playing around with the various levels, but it ended up being worth it.
    • RangerRuss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46try
      http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

      open source and works better w/o the fluff
    • Samurailink3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Amen, RangerRuss, Audacity is the only thing I use for ripping streams.
      No digg for story, but a digg for you! ;)
    • rdotson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@Samurailink3

      I agree that Audacity is great for audio editing, but how do get it to record streams (like Shoutcast for example)???
    • UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This app is slick.
    • punx45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@rdotson

      set record source to stereo mix.
    • WiskyDrinker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ya don't most people run a Creative sound card? The feature to record anything that is playing, has always been available with all my sound blaster cards.. Are they getting rid of that feature in new versions or something?
  • herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7this is a good way to steal music from sites that have the song in flash


    not that anyone here pirates music....

    /sarcasm
    • twertyto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This makes youtube my new napster!!!!
  • tropican8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45I like http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ better. Actually IMHO its a lot more flexible than the above mentioned program.
    • heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Audacity is what I use. It's open source and can save to WAV or MP3.
    • marioluigi123, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I have Audacity but haven't really used it. How do you use it instead of this program?
    • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16find the dropdown box for recording device, and change it to either 'wav out' 'stereo out' or 'what U hear' - depends on your soundcard
    • theWrkncacnter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I never knew you could do that with audacity, this is great. Especially for real streams. Streamripper is still better for shoutcast and the codecs it supports in my opinion because it separates the music into tracks and provides the names.
    • jadedknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow great advice! Thanks man, I just tried out Audacity, great recording quality :)
    • starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2audio hijack
      http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

      wiretap-tivo for internet radio
      http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

      there are several that will break up inet radio broadcast into individual songs. works marginally well... not for keeps... there are a couple really good inet radio stations. when i'm going on a long drive i'll rip radio to cd for the road. that works great.
    • whitehornmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@declin
      In the linux version there is Vol which is the same thing, so that may be on the mac version
    • khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@Declin

      The What U Hear option is available only on SBLive! and Audigy cards.
  • Soave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you have any speaker/sound system by Creative, open up "Creative Recorder" and set the input to "Stereo Mix." Then record with any audio program (even the one included with Windows), and it'll record whatever sounds/music you hear.
    • Jadael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can do it with any program by going into Volume Control, switching to the recording panel, and selecting Mone Mix or Stereo Mix as the recording input. It's on Microphone by default, I think.

      Try Audacity, linked above. Simply hit the record button that save in any format and quality you like.
    • 13tongimp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly how I do it. Just record the stereo mix and there it is....I thought this was common knowledge.
  • mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I use AudioHijack for OSX.
  • emmanuelsotelo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I use this method to to remove DRM from my music.
  • Nukreasian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0replay music 2 by applian both records music played on your sound card, but also taggs the name, album, track number, and genre. Not too many applications do that. Too bad it's only for pc. I use it on my sony vaio, them port it over to my powerbook to use on my ipod.
  • serramagk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I like Replay Music by Applian. I use it with Rhapsody. Excellent quality, and it automatically sorts the music into tagged MP3's. http://www.applian.com/replay-music/
  • mortrek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Playing back lossy streaming music and then recompressing it once again does just make it sound even worse. This method works ok for really high-quality original streams though.

    Also, I don't know if Audacity can stream to the HD. Yes, it can save captured audio, but I'm unsure if you can say, stream and record to mp3 for 24 hours straight w/o a lot of ram, scratch disk, and/or time.

  • alexpigment, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can do this already without the program. You just set your audio recording properties to "wave" or "what you hear (Creative)" or something of that nature. then, just use ANY audio recording program (lots of free'uns). I use cool edit pro.
  • Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1For me, it gets an error saying "getSourceList: Cannot access sources" It only records from my microphone. Help?
    • Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have this sound card btw: "Realtek AC97 Audio"
  • ViperG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You can do the exact same thing with windows xp and sound recorder (comes with windows xp) all you do is set your windows recorder to "what you hear" then hit play with whatever software program you are using, then hit record on sound recorder...

    so i have to say that is alot of hours programing a program that can already be done in windows xp.

    of course its a .wav, but you can change that to whatever you want with all those free programs out there.
  • dwemer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I record mp3 files quite regularly (I record from my satellite radio and them play the recordings on my mp3 player) and this program has several failings that make it inferior to other mp3 recorders.

    -You can't minimize it to the tray

    -You can't queue up several scheduled programs, you can only set one timer

    -There is no setting for automatically splitting up recordings after a certain set time (i.e. after 30 minutes the current recording will seamlessly stop and a new recording will start), this is extremely useful for long recordings.

    -It doesn't have an auto-pause which pauses the recording after a few seconds of silence.

    -It doesn't have a mixer lock that prevents other programs from changing your recording source (sometimes games will switch it to mic).

    -And worst of all it uses way too much of your CPU, this program used 79%.

    The recording software that has most of these features is iSound but it gave me choppy distorted recordings. The one that I am using now is Power MP3 Recorder it costs $19 but you can get it for free if you know where to look.
  • RangerRuss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just to re-iterate what was posted above, audacity rules. It can do exactly what this program does without all the crappy fluff.

    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
  • lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1creative sound blaster live card has it as an option (instead of line-in or mic in). wahoo.
  • SuperRoach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0For people that would like to use this to record skype calls, remember it will only let you record one thing at once - that is your mic, or the other person. You can't do both :(

    i've tried out TotalRecorder to do that, but that has some static pop up in the recording every now and again too.

    Audacity is a bit trickier to use, but very powerful, freeware and its 1.2.4 version is very stable.
  • Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1These have existed for years, I don't see how one particular product is worthy of a digg. This is just an ad. Meh.
  • slack3r17, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I tried this program but it only captures Line in or Mic on my Dell Inspiron E1705. I guess I can't record from this cursed Sigmatel sound card.
    • giveer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Are you sure you're checking your sound properties under 'recording'? Do you have the option 'checked'? sometimes it's called "wave Out" other times "Stereo Mix".. I'm sure there's a few other I'm missing. The "if you can hear it, you can record it" always seemed like a given to me.
  • adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Does anyone know of a simple audio equalizer that works with all of your audio output instead of just with a specific app?
  • verstohlen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Far out. I've been doing this for a few years with GoldWave. You can never have too many programs that circumvent DRM.
  • cpbrown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What's wrong with Audacity?
  • TimRogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I have tried this before and I suspect as I have a useless sound card it dosen't work. Realtek AC97 sucks.
  • Jerky1312, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wouldn't outright call this digg submission spam, because it links directly to the main site. If a blogger wrote up a short article about the program, that submitter would get nailed for not simply linking the site and instead whoring out his blog.

    Irregardless of all that, these kinds of programs in general are good. Although there might be some quality loss, at least there is an option for users to get a hold of certain audio that may be restricted for whatever reason. There are flash games or streaming media or DRMed audio that said programs would help in capturing the audio. There are many programs out there now that do this, but some programs are better suited than others for certain situations.

    Someone mentioned simply recording what they hear on the soundcard, well any simple sound capture program would suit the needs of this. I use Unrelated Invention's AudioTools for such circumstances. Another mentioned recording Skype conversations, for that I would recommend a program called AV Voice Changer Software Diamond, which is primarily a voice distorter, but has a very good skype recorder, better than PowerGramo which is specifically made for recording skype calls, but has stability issues. There was mention of recording from Flash games, whether to get sound effects or music from the flash, for this I would recommend a decompiler, that will get the source audio without any quality loss, a good program for this is Sothink's SWF Decompiler or any other flash decompiler, they all work the same. There was also mention of recording streaming audio off of internet radio stations such as shoutcast, for this I would recommend a stream ripper, which will usually divide the stream into seperated tracks with correct file names, a couple popular programs are StreamRipper or Replay Music. Another common use is for DRMed music files, but it is a timely task to record each track one by one, there are a few options for this as well. There is the popular program TuneBite, which removes the DRM 4x faster than realtime copies. You could use one of the FairPlay or PlayForSure bypassers. I think that is most of the situations you would need such a program.
  • NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Alot of people will have this feature if they have a soundblaster card.. Its in one of the apps by creative. No digg.
  • MagicBobert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I hate to say it, but being able to record whatever you hear isn't exactly a "cool, new" thing. In fact, how is this program that records and compresses to an MP3 different from the multitude of other programs out there that do the exact same thing?

    Lame.
  • snharden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Try "Total Recorder" its no longer free but if you look around you can still find free versions of it and the quality is excellent. I've used the same version for the last 4 years. Its at http://www.highcriteria.com
    If you can hear it you can record it. Theres also one for video.

    Look around for ver 5.0 or earlier and they should be freeware.
  • ciccarone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1replay radio is the best one.... but ya have to buy it, no one seeds.

    29 bucks, works awesome!
  • benpant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0i use audacity and it works fine - what's the big deal?
  • rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Heh. What's old is new again I guess. I've been using a program like this for a while now. It's called Sound Recorder, and comes with every version of Windows released since Windows 3.1, which I started using, what, 15 years ago?
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