Recording Sirius Shows to PC?

[mgalvin]

Now that I can't listen to Stern the way I used to (with a walkman, at work, at the gym, etc.) I have to come up with a way to record Sirius shows that I can take with me on my iPod.

There's no way I want to spend $275+ for the S50 portable and then an additional $100 for the home docking station.

MY QUESTION: I have an Orbiter Sat Radio (boombox) and I want to record shows - is there any way to connect it to my pc to record to?

I have heard about Timetraxtech, but what I read, it won't work with my unit.

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[thiggin2]

I use and Sportster/boombox to record shows to my PC. I have a TV-FM tuner card to record Sirius via the FM transmit feature. Its kind of a pain in the ass but it works and I dont miss any of the Bubba show.
If you want to know more just let me know and I will try to explain alittle better.

 

[mgalvin]

I have the Orbiter boombox - it does not come with any connectors in the back to plug anything in it, but on the front of the unit it has a plug for "aux".

Would that be where you would connect it to the computer?

 

[korsjs]

nothing is plugged into his computer. the fm capture card is picking up the fm signal transmitted by his boom box.

i heard there is a program to do what you are looking for. can't remeber the name of it.

however, if your computer has a line in jack, i don't see why you could not run the line out of the sirius unit into the input of the computer. i have never tried it, so i don't know if it would work.

 

[mgalvin]

Went to Radio Shack, bought an audio cable and have connected the sat radio to my computer and I have great sound through my pc speakers.

Now I have to figure out how to actually record what's playing. Does anyone know of a freeware or other software for this?

 

[charper1]

A $5 male to male stereo cable from the Sirius LINE-OUT to the LINE-IN on you PC or sound card. The recording software with timer/scheduler is called Total Recoder. http://www.highcriteria.com/

Make sure to open up the LINE-IN jack on your PC's sound panel and as the recording source and set AUTO recording level. I have been doing it for almost 2 years, even posted it. That Time Trax is a total waste of cash compared to this.

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[mgalvin]

This great. Thank you...

 

[charper1]

Great job, hope you enjoy it. Another convert LOL!

 

[trehutch]

How I get to listen to Sirus at work eveyday

I have a program called pdmarq You can get it at www.pdmarq.com. I have set the program to open and start recording at 3am PST so when I leave for work around 7:30am PST the enitre Stern show is recorded. It puts the program to a wav file, abot 2gb. The I just convert it to MP3 and put it on my flash drive. When you convert it to a mp3 it goes to about 200MB. Then I just take it to work and listen to it in Itunes. Pretty easy and way cool I still get to hear Stern at work in the mornings. I have my sirius starmate hooked in to my sound card via the line in.

Trevor

 

[charper1]

That Total Recorder program I listed above does MP3 on the fly with your selection of size/compression rates. saves steps and space. You should give it a try.