How do I record FM radio onto my computer?

[BigHaus]

There's a daily radio show I love, but am rarely home to catch it.

Is there a way I can set up my computer to record the radio every day at a given time (e.g. 6pm-7pm) and save it as a .wav or other high quality file on my hard drive for later listening?

Any help/suggestions on the hardware/software required would be greatly appreciated.

Tks

[yashiro_Andreiz]

you need to have a fm tuner card. i have a leadtek winfast tv experts edition which can record tv and fm.the file is converted to mpeg format.

[NeilNense]

many radio stations archive their shows on the web, check out thier website too!

[kingman]

I know of a fried who could not get signals of his favourite radio station at work. So he rigged up a fancy setup...

He had a radio miced into a plain vanilla sound card on computer that was setup with a web server behind a linux firewall. He encoded the audio stream on the fly into a file that was accessible via the webserver. When he was at work he would point his realplayer browser to his webserv and voila... streaming radio station. Worked quite well and had the advantage of haveing a copy for later use. He got even fancier by using a scheduler to start and stop recording when he wanted. He could even start and stop recording via a web interface. Nifty!

[xpine73]

u need a TV card installed in one of ur PCI slots,which can record FM directly into ur harddisk.