Originally posted by dvcfamily41801
Pat,
Could you please send the link for Disney Park Hopper and Laughling Place Radio and most importantly.....How doyou record from those sites??? I am totally addicted to Magic Trips Radio and I have been saying I want to have a CD of the stuff they play. Help 
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Help
Thank you!!!
I'll see how much I can talk you through. I work with computers for a living and unfortunately, some of these things are as difficult to explain without being there as brain surgery. Oh, if only it paid the same....
First, there is no link to Disney Park Hopper, et al. On the
www.live365.com, once you've registered (no cost, just registration so they can bomb you with Ramada Plaza Hotel Spam), now you're logged in. There is a choice to "search live365 stations." You type in "Disney," and it will give you a list, from the best to the worst according to listener ratings. When it brings up these sites, there's a little botton that looks like a yellow speaker and says "play." Hit it, and that station will now play. There's a way to actually make "preset stations," it takes a bit of manuevering, but isn't that hard.
As for recording, then making CD's (and as a disclaimer to those holding copyright, I don't resell them, I listen to them in my car while dreaming of all the merchandise I bought from my Magic365 popup windows), you need a program to do this, and it takes a wee bit of computer knowledge to make it work. The program I use is called "Total Recorder Professional," and can be purchased for twelve bucks at
http://www.highcriteria.com. No way around it, I've never seen a recorder worth a hill of beans that's given away for free.
The program records the music direct from your soundcard, and makes what's called a .wav file. Unimportant, except that this is one of the media files your computer understands. Be careful to not record more than 75 minutes of music (keep it at 70, or many small bits around 15 is what I find best). The program shows you, while recording, such criteria as size of the growing file and the time of the music recorded. Stop the player when you reach the desired length, then save it somewhere you can find it, like in "My Documents" or some such thing. You've now got a library of Disney files.
If you wish to put it on CD, assuming you have a CD burner, go to "My Documents." In XP (I've haven't worked without XP in so long), you right-click your mouse on the file and there's an option that says "record to an audio disk." Follow your nose from there.
I assume this is either simple if you're "into" computers or is extremely confusing if you're not. I wish you luck and I hope this is somewhat helpful, rather than techno-garble.
Best Wishes,
Pat
