Fantastic news! Bang goes my plan to cut-back on C90 purchasing.

>Fantastic news! Bang goes my plan to cut-back on C90 purchasing.

You London bastards!

Does GLR's output get streamed?

>>Fantastic news! Bang goes my plan to cut-back on C90 purchasing.
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>You London bastards!
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>Does GLR's output get streamed?

Yes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/londonlive/live/fmv5.ram

>You London bastards!
>
>Does GLR's output get streamed?

Dunno, but perhaps we could get a tape/CD tree going. I plan to record it each week.

>Fantastic news! Bang goes my plan to cut-back on C90 purchasing.
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Thought you had a minidisc machine, Ian. In LP4 mode, I'll be able to get each show onto one disc. I might even record them straight to the hard drive on my pc. Either way, "the best 3 hours of your lives" is back on air, and I'm not going to miss a second. Wonder if he'll still go over to the Marylebone Tup for after-show beers or will 11am be too early?

>>You London astards!
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>>Does GLR's output get streamed?
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>Yes
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/londonlive/live/fmv5.ram

Then let me rephrase that : You loveable cockerney ragamuffin heroes. Best get investigating software that can record real audio streams then.

>Then let me rephrase that : You loveable cockerney ragamuffin heroes. Best get investigating software that can record real audio streams then.
>

Best of luck. If all else fails, you could run Cool Edit or whatever wav recorder you use and set the recording panel on Volume Control so that you're recording 'all waves'.

>Thought you had a minidisc machine, Ian.

Yep, and CDR, but I've neither rigged the MD up or the Lame recording software for radio broadcasts. The Baker show would be an excuse to get everything started, but I suspect going by my current track record that it'll never happen. Maybe this weekend.

I can always convert stuff at a later date and I do still profess a love for spools.

>Yep, and CDR, but I've neither rigged the MD up or the Lame recording software for radio broadcasts. The Baker show would be an excuse to get everything started, but I suspect going by my current track record that it'll never happen. Maybe this weekend.
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Well, I'd call it a pretty good incentive. Incidentally, for people who want to record from the radio direct to their PC, Maplin do a card called a RadioTrack. It receives VHF (mono only, unfortunately), fits in the ISA port and costs £19.99.

If, however, anyone here wants one for significantly less than that (the price of a pint of bitter to be precise), I have one that I bought before discovering I didn't have a spare ISA port. By this time, I'd lost the receipt, so I couldn't take it back, and it's been sitting in its box for a year. So, if anyone has a use for it and can take it off my hands on licensed premises, they'd be most welcome.

>I can always convert stuff at a later date and I do still profess a love for spools.
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Me too. If I'm feeling especially perverse, I might record it on quarter-track reel-to-reel at 1 7/8 IPS. We have the technology...

>So, if anyone has a use for it and can take it off my hands on licensed premises, they'd be most welcome.

I'll take it, cheers.

>Me too. If I'm feeling especially perverse, I might record it on quarter-track reel-to-reel at 1 7/8 IPS. We have the technology...

Sounds like gibberish to me.
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This is the best news in ages. Radio 1 would be better, but you can't have everything... Fantastic news.

>I'll take it, cheers.

Splondide. See private email for mooted arrangements.

>>Me too. If I'm feeling especially perverse, I might record it on quarter-track reel-to-reel at 1 7/8 IPS. We have the technology...
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>Sounds like gibberish to me.

What does? Do you mean my sentence or are you making a forecast of a recording made by such a method? If the former, it's really quite simple. A quarter-track reel-to-reel machine records four linear tracks on a piece of quarter-inch audio tape - two in each direction, allowing one stereo recording to be made on each side of the tape. Running at 1 7/8 IPS (same speed as cassette - the tracks for which are laid out in an almost identical manner, only on tape one-eighth of an inch wide), you can fit about 3 hrs on one side of one 7" reel. So, 2 Baker shows a reel.

If the latter, you may have a point, but from a technical point of view you're likely to get twice as much fi as you would out of cassette, since it's twice the width.

All utterly pointless, really, considering that, like you, I have MD and CD-R. There's still something about threading a tape up and watching the reels go round. 7.5 ips is sexier (Look! It goes faster and listen to the relative lack of hiss!), but you'd need 2 reels (45 mins a side) for a 3-hr show.

>7.5 ips is sexier (Look! It goes faster and listen to the relative lack of hiss!), but you'd need 2 reels (45 mins a side) for a 3-hr show.



Of course 15ips is the best for proper stereo and noise reduction. On one of those big 1200ft reels.

And, if you get close enough to the drive motors, it'll take your hand off!

>Of course 15ips is the best for proper stereo and noise reduction.
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Aye. I was only thinking of the top speed on my Sony TC-377. For 15 ips, I really must get my arse in gear and have my Ampex moved from my mother's house to my flat. And if we're really getting into this, what about 30ips?

> On one of those big 1200ft reels.

With NAB hubs (slaver, drool).

>And, if you get close enough to the drive motors, it'll take your hand off!
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If you're silly enough...

;)

Oh Lordy, I don't understand any of the hi-tech gubbins on this thread, but I'd love to listen to the show. Is it on the Sky Digital audio channels?

I do hope he's not going to have that boring American woman on all the time either, Laurie or whatever her name was.

You forget, Louis, I couldn't give a flying fuck about formats and technology. I am the Betamax man.

>You forget, Louis, I couldn't give a flying fuck about formats and technology. I am the Betamax man.
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Come on, guv. It was you who said about liking spools. I admitted to a similar fetish. That's all.