Graham, on his way to the Muse concert at this moment, asked me to try to record the Radio One broadcast this evening when it’s streamed online from the BBC. ”You’ll need to download an audio thing,” he said. ”I’ll try,” I said, full of fear, uncertainty and doubt. “But I’m making no promises. I know nothing about mp3s, iPods and such.”
I had no idea just how close to zero that nothing is. I’ve googled, and attempted a download, and come up with nothing that makes any sense to me at all. I just don’t understand the jargon. I think he’ll have to tap his online contacts in the Muse-iverse to scrounge a copy.
Hey ho. I often use that “I’m too old for this sh*t” line but I never really expected that it would come true.
Because it has. I’m defeated, and shall have to confess it. I don’t like this feeling, not at all.
Now if I still had my reel-to-reel Ferrograph there’d be no problem at all.
Vintage Ferrograph tape recorder
Those were the days, eh?
So I’m going to give in, sit and look out of the window, and wait for my daily diuretic to run its course before going shopping for provisions. That is something for which I am most definitely not too old.
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remembering old machines
with glowing valves and rheostats
a true Turing test
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Hello John – haven’t been in contact for some time – but never miss a single day reading!
If you download a small, free programme called Audacity you can record anything that comes through your computer’s speakers. I ignore all the technical choices you can make with the programme and just press the record button and it always sounds fine.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Anita
I’m afraid I wouldn’t be of any help, I leave all the techie ipod magic to my granchildren, they sort it out, I just shake my head
I’ll spare you all the things I can no longer grasp.
Each day I better understand mum’s feelings about technology.
Funny, we have a stack of cds to copy this week, and find it easier to simply record them cassettes, just like in 1989! I understand ya…
He (or you) should be able to listen to it and grab it off BBC iPlayer later on – BBC radio is archived online now for a short while so you can go back and listen to stuff again, so you don’t need to panic about getting it all sorted tonight if you do come up with a way
Combine Anita’s suggestion with Peter’s idea, and you will be recorde3d before you know what hit you. Maybe Graham should have taken a recorder with him.
Ah, yes, the BBC will do a much better job recording the concert than one can do in a crowd. Good luck with the ‘audacious’ program.
Crikey John, I haven’t seen one of those for a few years. They used to be the bee’s knees, of course. That wonderful CLUNK feel when you finally managed to twist the big knob round to the “record” position. Ah.
Mine was a Revox – better results but not quite the same Clyde-built engineering. I’ve still got it, but I think the reel motors have packed up.
Once I got to play with a Nagra from the bbc – like a little tape recorder built by a watchmaker that was – lovely little thing.
Old men reminisce!