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  • Posted at 4:50pm
  • 14 June 2008
  • by DoctorDigital-RT

Q Before digital, I taped radio programmes onto cassettes, which I could listen to in my car. Now I record both TV and radio programmes from digital TV on to DVD-RW, but these can only be viewed/listened to on the same recording device (unless you finalise them, making it impossible to re-record on the disc). Is there any other means to record digital radio and play it in a normal CD player?
John Collison, via email

A You'll need some new equipment. There are DAB radios that come with SD cards, the same type of memory card that some digital cameras use, and they can record varying amounts of radio. There are a couple of in-car CD players that can take SD cards - both Blaupunkt and Ripspeed have launched one in the past year.

But the easiest way to capture radio programmes is when they're available on mp3 format, as podcasts. Assuming you have a computer and broadband connection, simply "burn" the mp3 file to an audio CD. Or if you have an mp3 player, load the podcast onto that and connect it to your stereo via a USB port (if it has one), with a cable running from the mp3 player's headphone socket to the stereo's Aux socket (if it has one), or using a small FM transmitter that allows your stereo's radio to pick up your mp3 player's output (such devices used to be illegal in the UK but are now not). Podcasts will usually not be as good quality as DAB broadcasts, however.

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