Line In to MP3?

Cyber-Mav · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:42

does anyone know of any decent software that can convert music directly from the line in to mp3 or wma format on the fly in real time?
would windows media encoder do what im after?
thanks

bledd · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:55

audacity can export to mp3, i think it saves as wav first though..

Cyber-Mav · 1 Nov 2006 at 18:30

dang not enough drive space to save a wav hence why i need a program to do it to mp3 directly.

Scottland · 1 Nov 2006 at 18:38

I'm not sure that would matter, IIRC it doesn't save it as such first, it keeps it open as a new sound and from that you should be able to export it directly to MP3.

bledd · 2 Nov 2006 at 06:01

that has to get stored somewhere though...

Cyber-Mav · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:14

thing is the machine doing this is hooked up to a radio transmitter and we do live playback on 87.7fm.

since there are discussions that take place too the mics are all hooked up to the main pc thats has winamp running on it and music playback most of the time. but when large functions take place we need something than can just stream directly to mp3 onto the hard drive otherwise drive space will get lashed real fast.

i understand that a lot of cpu power may be needed to do real time mp3 encoding. but not sure what software will do what we are after.

hardc0re_tid · 2 Nov 2006 at 14:34

ignore!

didnt engage brain before reading OP

Gas Panic! · 2 Nov 2006 at 14:47

If you have a Creative Sound card, you can do this fairly easily. Set the Recording source to Line in, or "What u hear" if you need it... and then open up the Creative Media Player. On the record button, click the arrow and choose both "Recording source" and "Recording format", and change the latter to MP3.

Hope that helps.

Cyber-Mav · 2 Nov 2006 at 17:17

thats brilliant help there Rivey.

thing is its onboard audio in that pc. now does it have to be an audigy or x-fi card? or can it be done using a soundblaster live card too since i got loads of those live cards lying around here.