Question for computer people

[prizmdonna]

My husband suggested burning one of my professor's online audio lectures so I can listen in the car and maximize my study time. Brilliant! It has helped immensely. However, several of the lectures are streaming video. I have a good, free program on my PC that can capture audio from the .wmv files and save as mp3's, however, that program doesn't

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[lightning_rose]

I'm surprised your Mac doesn't come with such software, but to answer your question, I believe Audacity will do what you want, and it runs on Mac, Windoze and Linux. And it's free, as in beer.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[prizmdonna]

Thank you so much! I am running (figuratively) right now to grab it.

My Mac may very well have something. Sadly, I am not wise in the way of the Mac!

- donna

[rosefox]

You could do it with Quicktime, theoretically, but Audacity makes it easier.

[prizmdonna]

So far, it's not working. The dropdown box where you can select the input only gives me the default option. I've done some reading and apparently audacity will not work with all soundcards.

Any clue how to do it with quicktime?

- donna

[lightning_rose]

I don't do Macs, but the MS-Win version of Audacity should work.

[rosefox]

Oh, hm, I see what you're saying.

You could get an audio cable from Radio Shack and route it from your headphone jack to your mic jack. *) Or try one of these.

EDIT: Whoops, wrong link. Fixed now.

[rosefox]

You can also use Audio Hijack Pro, though the unpaid version overlays noise on any recording longer than ten minutes.