[HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

This is a little how to record music from the FM Radio Player from Martin Grimme.

Edit: Changed to Recaller 2010-08-22

Thanks to Tom Wälti there is the program Recaller to record from FM Radio.

Recaller can encode the recorded sound on the fly to the AAC audio format with 128 kbit/s.

Install Recaller and FM Radio:
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Configure Recaller by tapping on the desktop.
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Tap on the lower left symbol on the red Recaller icon.

Set the Audio Source to System:
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Tap the red button to start recording. It changes to green.
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Start the FM Radio.
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The recorded sound is in:

This was my first suggestion. A command line way but it is not recommended. I leave it here for historical reasons.

First you need to configure a virtual pulse sound device to record from.

Set the recording volume with the alsa utilities:
Start FM Radio Player and record with alsa record (arecord):

Press Ctrl + C to stop recording.

The wav-format has a limit of the file size ! (2 GB)

Install an MP3 encoder to shrink the recorded file.

Convert the wav file to mp3 and delete the wav file:

lame seems to be compiled without optimisation - it seems to be slow.

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

Thank you very much, but in the end your post will be lost amongst million others here on TMO. You might get more public if you add it to the wiki...

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

@TorstenT thanks for that one, did just think about that the other day how to record from the radio app. Will try this tomorrow :D

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Someone has already written a wiki:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Recording_phonecalls

But there the pulseaudio-utils are used. Not sure what the raw file format is. But I'm sure this can also be converted to mp3.

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

maybe using all that stuff to create an application will be more user friendly!

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

I agree, but I don't have the time to develop a GUI.

Maybe the program "recaller" can record from FM Radio.

Until now I did not have much luck with Recaller in PR 1.2.

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

5he recording works fine but when trying to convert to .mp3 it says '.mp3 not found'? I have Lame installed. Anybody know why i get that error?

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

It works well to record FM radio. Go into settings, change "Audio Source" to "System". Then launch FM radio, begin to listen, switch back to the desktop, start the recording by tapping the red recording button (will switch to green to indicate recording).

Just make sure you don't have a space in your save-folder name - this would trigger a bug that makes recaller fail.

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

For everybody else: just use Recaller :D

Re: [HOW TO] record music from FM Radio
 

This could be nice if someone package this into an easy application :)