When I discovered that Slayer (one of my favourite metal bands) would be featured on P3 Live, I decided to record that show… Sveriges Radio uses Windows Media and Real for their streams, and after some searching I found the excellent (free!) program Net Transport that would help me to save the stream to disk. The result was a ~40 MB large .rm file that I needed to convert to wav to be able to burn it (and/or convert it into MP3).
Someone on a mailinglist suggested I’d use DB Power Amp which, with the help from RealAlternative quickly turned the .ra file into a huge wav.
Using Sound Forge, I set so called “markers” in the file, named them into the song names, then turned them into regions and then saved all regions as separate files. I was pretty surprised to see that the Nero wave editor could read the Sound Forge marks directly, which meant I could burn the large WAV file instead of using the splitted WAV files. With the “no gaps between tracks” option enabled, the resulting disc sounded perfect!
Edit:
It’s now one month later, and I’ve almost forgotten the details on how to do this… Net Transport needs a rtsp link, and those are a bit tricky to extract. I did discover that selecting “File”->”Clip properties”->”View clip info” in the Real Player displayed the RTSP URL.