Has anyone recorded the Amsterdam stream from the Roadcase?

[WishfulThinking13]

I was wondering if anyone has tried to record this..If not, how could I go about doing this?

[Analogman]

Here's a thread that lists the sources out there:

Amsterdam 2009 Show

 

How to record a web stream (Google.com)

 

Some reasons why you man not find such sources out there very often:

 

Regarding digital stream sources

 

Note: This section pertains to captures of streamed digital audio sources such as satellite broadcasts, webcasts, HD Radio, and the audio portion of digital television dish reception. See elsewhere on this page for policies covering material already captured or circulating as lossy digital files or the audio content of a digital video file or of a video on DVD.

 

Nearly all digital broadcasts and webcasts carry lossily compressed content. For some examples, broadcasts bearing acronyms such as DVB, DAB, and ADR or carried on networks like Sky Digital and Freeview are lossily compressed digital streams. Despite being lossy, they may be shared on DIME, provided that

 

1. No higher-bitrate digicast source is known to be at the trading community's disposal;

2. The description on the torrent's page and the internal info file of the torrent state both the compression format and the bit rate of the broadcast stream; and

3. either ..

Preferably, the lossily compressed material is shared in its original compressed format, even if that prevents dividing it into tracks; or

 

If the stream was transmitted at a bit rate of 192 kb/s or greater (for spoken [but music-related] content, 64 kb/s or greater), it may be shared in a conversion to a lossless compression format.

 

This provision is a special relaxation of DIME's standard losslessness requirement. If the bit rate and the codec are not stated, or if the torrent's information does not acknowledge its descent from a digital stream, then it does not qualify for this relaxation, and if the material proves lossy, the torrent may be banned for lossiness or lack of information or both.

 

NOTE ON TOTAL RECORDER AND SIMILAR SOFTWARE: Webstream sources recorded as .wav with this kind of software are NOT allowed, unless the bitrate of the webstream was 192 kb/s or greater, and the bitrate and format of the original source is stated in the torrent's description. Programs like Total Recorder do not record the source in an unchanged form but convert it.

 

An analog broadcast and a digicast of the same content will, in general, be deemed acceptable alternative sources, and a torrent of each may run on DIME at the same time if there are no other violations in them. If you are posting a torrent derived from an digital broadcast when one from an analog broadcast or an audience capture of the same performance is already on DIME, see the FAQ item on multiple torrents of the same performance and its subsections about alternative versions and the required contrast clause.

 

Here are links for finding out the stream characteristics of some sources:

 

* http://www.satcodx2.com/0282/fra/

* http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dbr.php?link=2&sat=319&lang=en

* http://fr.kingofsat.net/sat-astra1kr.php

* http://www.linowsat.de/

* http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/satellite_tv_bit_rates.php

* http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=76336 (info for a handful of Australian TV stations)

* http://www.digiandi.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1751&Itemid=140

 

For DIME policy regarding lossless digital-stream sources, see this item in our FAQ.

 

Lossless streams

 

For this subsection to apply, the stream itself must be lossless. Capturing a lossy stream in a dub to 1411.2-kb/s files does not make the files lossless; it just bloats them to the size of lossless files and misrepresents them as such.

 

The codec and bit rate of the stream must be stated in the torrent description and in the internal info file. If it is uncompressed PCM audio (example: the 1411.2-kb/s stream in WMA lossless from KEXP), you must divide it into tracks and compress it losslessly for the torrent, as explained at DIME's rules for torrents allowed on the tracker.