Capturing music off of digital (satelite ) TV

[hevsdr]

Our digital company broadcasts music (various types) continuously. It shows just a screen with the song tiltles, artists etc on it. I would like to know how to, or if it possible to capture the songs and be able to play them on a cd player, audio only (ie. car,home etc.) If so what "language" would it be using and also what kind of capture device would be best.

[Denman007]

Capture it as video(mpeg2) and strip out the audio using Virtual Dub with mpeg2 support. You can make seperate files(.wav) for each song.

It works really well!

HTH,
D

[tygrus2000]

You can skip capturing the video and just plug the audio out cable directly into your sound card and record. Its basically the same thing I would imagine plus you dont have to sit and demux the video.

The only problems with the DSS music are:

1.) You never know what artist is going to play until it starts. There is no advance listing of tracks.
2.) The music doesnt come thru in very good quality, although they advertise it as cd quality, it comes through in very low volumes on the PC which you then have to go and fix up in a sound editor like Sound Forge and it still doesnt sound as good as the original.
3.) The music is all cross faded so you would have to use a sound editor to split the capture into tracks which is sometimes possibe, many times it is not. So if you want to burn it to cd, you are either going to have one huge song or a lot of little ones with an aprupt cut off and part of the other song in them. Now you could go and fade out the split songs some more to get rid of that sound.

Frankly, downloading the real file from winmx is a much easier option.

tygrus