I'm not sure how many of the folks here are into The White Stripes, but I recently started listening to them and got into them big-time. I was fortunate to see them and my other current favorite band, The Shins, this week at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Coumbia, MD. It was a fantastic show, one of the best I've ever seen, which was unexpected because I thought the sound system would be absolutely terrible. I saw Velvet Revolver there and I guess they just have bad sound people.

Anyway, I'm posting this because apparently the band asked NPR to record the show. It is available to stream from their site here. Just be sure that you first select the program you'll be streaming with here.

The quality is excellent, and although I hate to do it to NPR, I've captured it to WAV and plan on putting it on my empeg soon. I don't feel very guilty, since I own all the White Stripes and Shins albums, and if this were available to purchase I'd buy it too. I know, it's not an argument that would hold in court, but I feel the need to justify myself

Anyway, I strongly recommend it. The band is not bad live, like everyone says. Yeah, they're a little rough, but it fits their music. Just the sheer energy that went into their show was amazing.

Yeah, that NPR series is great. I haven't listened to the White Stripes concert yet but I'm going to capture the streaming audio like you did.

They broadcast the Sigur Ros show I went to a few weeks ago. It was a great show and the sound quality of the NPR broadcaset was awesome. It's really cool to have a good recording of a show I went to.

Hm. I wonder what the easiest way to capture to a WAV is. I have the same thought.

The White Stripes are a recent thing for me too, going back to July. They played here in early August and I missed them. They played Columbus a few weeks ago when I was there, a sold out show. Oh well.

On the Mac I use Audio Hijack Pro which is a useful app for me in several ways. I'm sure someone else can post the Windows solution.

I'm a Mac person.

Oh sh*t. I'm using the audio, though. Hm. Well, I'll look anyway.

Darn, NPR only did this one at 64 kbs. The RealMedia version of the Sigur Ros show was at 177 kbs.

The correct windows solution is Total Recorder. It inserts itself as a shim in the audio driver allowing you to stream all wave audio to disk. I believe this is the functional equivalent of the macintosh program mentioned above.

Another way is to save the stream and transcode. There are programs that will save RealAudio streams to disk (I use NetTransport) and others which will transcode RealAudio files into MP3 (I use Streambox Ripper).

Duh. Just capture the asf stream with mimms or with VLC's raw dump feature, and transcode to wav later.

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I dummy vlc-output.asf :sout='#transcode{acodec=s16l}:std{access=file,mux=wav,url=vlc-output.wav}' vlc:quit

Here is the Odeo channel for All Songs Considered which gives you one song each from The White Stripes, M. Ward, and The Shins.