Downloading & Converting Radio Programs

[markfalkus]

I am very new to all this, so apologies if these have been answered elsewhere.

I would like to be able to listen to recorded radio programs on my mp3 player. I have managed to download the radio programs to my PC but the format doesn't appear to be recognised.

What format are the radio program files ? and how do I convert them to MP3 ?

[petef]

The audio format is MP2 contained in an MPEG 2 Transport Stream. You need to do two things.

1) TS -> MP2
Extract the audio Elementary Stream using ProjectX (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ProjectX) or similar.

2) MP2 -> MP3
Open the MP2 with mp3DirectCut (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/), Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) or other audio editor. Edit it to trim the ends. Save as MP3. You may want to experiment with different quality/compression settings on the output.

[jda180hm]

The audio format is MP2 contained in an MPEG 2 Transport Stream. You need to do two things.

1) TS -> MP2
Extract the audio Elementary Stream using ProjectX (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ProjectX) or similar.

2) MP2 -> MP3
Open the MP2 with mp3DirectCut (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/), Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) or other audio editor. Edit it to trim the ends. Save as MP3. You may want to experiment with different quality/compression settings on the output.[/b]


Or VLC will do it one one step - someone has posted the command line to use on another thread - find it at www.videolan.org

See http://www.hummy.org.uk/invison/index.php?...st=0&#entry8315 (http://www.hummy.org.uk/invison/index.php?showtopic=1560&pid=8315&st=0&#entry8315)