Program to record myspace music?

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/03/2006 05:41:34

Hello. There is a song out there that it impossible to find in purchase form (practically), well, not in the US. It's a song by Joy Zipper, "Go Tell the World". I first found this song on a Nike Soccer commercial awhile ago.

On Joy Zipper's myspace page, they have the song available for playing on the myspace Standalone Player. I've used several recording programs, such as Hi-Q Recorder, as well as Creative Labs recorder. I really don't know how I can listen to this song on my own until I can get the import cd which has this song on it. If it was on itunes, I would have bought it earlier.

http://www.myspace.com/joyzipper

Any help?

juncmodule · Wed 15/03/2006 13:11:34

I emailed you stuff. It has nothing to do with this song...

Nikolas · Wed 15/03/2006 14:09:09

I have found that if you press record in windows movie maker and you don't have a camera connected, it actually records all sounds that come from the computer. Clicks, open windows, movie sounds from a DVD (any DVD), songs from the internet.

Barbarian · Wed 15/03/2006 15:09:06

There's several little utilities (some freeware and shareware ones too), that will allow you to "capture" any sounds played through your computer's audio card and then save it as an audio file (such as Wav or MP3).

I quickly grabbed this song for you using a little utility called "Audio MP3 Audio Recorder": http://www.mp3-recorder.biz/

The trial-version of this program lets you record up to 120 seconds of audio per file, which for this Joy Zipper song was JUST long enough. I've made a MP3 file of this song at a bitrate of 128kb/s and in stereo mode. The Audio Recorder utility lets you adjust these settings before recording.

~~I've tempoarily hosted the file for you to grab over at:~~
*Edit - To save on my bandwidth, I've now removed this file from my site. If anyone else was truely desperate for it, PM me, and perhaps I can put it up again tempoarily for yas.Ã,Â

Ã,Â Ã,Â File size is 1.83 MB.
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nihilyst · Wed 15/03/2006 15:17:15

I personally just activate "What U Hear" as the recording device, and then you can record everything, that ends up in your speakers.

cheers
nihilyst

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/03/2006 18:16:44

Thank you all for the tips!

nihilyst- I read to use "whatUhear" in the tutorial for the HiQ recorder, but it wasnt in the selection area that they implied.Ã,Â $:-\$

Nikolas- neat idea, hadn't thought of that. If it comes up again, I'll try it out.

Barbarian- its cool that the song was short enough. thanks for the program

junc- dont ever send me junc that has nothing to do with the question i asked in this postÃ,Â

really unacceptable.Ã,Â

dasjoe · Wed 15/03/2006 18:31:03

"What you hear" is a Creative-only feature. you'd have to get a soundcard manufactured by creative to use that.

ManicMatt · Wed 15/03/2006 18:46:08

First of all, respect to you my friend for liking Joy Zipper! I've been into them since around 1999 and Tabitha is real sweet, based on the few messages I've shared with her on myspace!

Second of all, aint Joy Zipper American?

Third of all, the whole album it's from is great! Also check out their self titled one for some laid back chilled stuff! (Although admittedly not as well made, as they have become better at playing their guitars since then, but the synths are so cool!)

Finally, maybe I'm too late, and my advice is probably useless if you don't have the right equipment... but incase it helps others... (And no, I don't condone this sort of stuff, and only do it for the rare stuff I can't get, and I totally understand your reasonings)

Ahem yes! I have a seperate CD recorder that I used before I had a PC. I merely have a jack - phono lead adaptor plugged into the sound out jack socket on my pc soundcard, and hook the other end to the back of my cd recorder. But I doubt many people have a seperate CD recording device!

nihilyst · Wed 15/03/2006 18:47:26

But you could choose "Wave/MP3" or something similar as the recording device. That should work.

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/03/2006 20:34:39

wav usually works for recording anything else I may do, but for some reason i couldnt get this myspace music to be recorded.
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BTW, I have Creative SB! Live sound card, so.. I dunno.
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Joy Zipper may be american, I dont know, but the only cd I've found, like on amazon, to have this song is on an import cd. It's like this Dave Matthews song I wanted, but could only get the version I wanted off of an import cd from my local "Record and Tape Traders". That place is really great to get a lot of imports in, but they didnt have the cd I wanted for Joy Zipper.
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So, my case is solved, but again, thanks for the additional tips.

Haddas · Wed 15/03/2006 20:40:35

You could also search for the box titled "Stereo Mixer" and record from that.

ManicMatt · Wed 15/03/2006 21:17:34

*Goes on Amazon.com, not my usual UK site*

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009K9OZI/ref=dp_olp_2/104-7211151-1445540?%5Fencoding=UTF8

I don't understand. These merchants are from the USA. Caiman are reliable in my experience as I buy a lot of imports from America off them.

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/03/2006 21:49:32

yeah, i havent bought anything from the sellermarketplace, I was speaking specifically of just amazon. thats all. And I know just because the cd is classified as import, doesnt mean it has to be imported to get it.

monkey0506 · Wed 15/03/2006 22:43:05

The problem with Windows Movie Maker is that it records the sound as a WMV (Windows Media Video) file. Unless there's some way of converting it...?

Nikolas · Thu 16/03/2006 02:20:58

It actually saves it as WMA (windows media audio) file. I'm pretty sure that there must be rippers to convert WMA to WAV or MP3. Any way the quality can be controled from the record button and you can have almost CD quality (well... almost that is...)

Bluke4x4 · Thu 16/03/2006 22:19:45

In itunes you can convert WMA's directly to mp3's just by right clicking the wma and clicking "open with itunes".

monkey0506 · Fri 17/03/2006 03:13:27

Hmm...I tried it and it saved it as WMV. Do you have to use some specific settings?

Actually...Audacity works fine. Just set the input device to "Stereo Mix" and it will record everything that comes through the speakers. Just make sure you don't have the input volume up to loud or it will make it all staticy. Gash I wish I knew that a long time ago. To think I used to stick a mic in front of the speakers...