The thought of having to listen to all 12 days of Mozart on R3 does not fill everyone with glee, and even dedicated enthusiasts will find it hard to stay awake.
Firstly, does anyone know if the BBC is planning to make this available on the iPlayer for an extended period, or will each item disappear after 7 days, so that we won't be able to compare the end with the beginning?
Secondly, how feasible is it to record some or all of this, for later listening? I did that with some of the earlier Bach and Beethoven series, though I actually hardly ever listen to them. There were, however, some interesting performances, and it's possible that the Beeb's Mozart Fest will have some unusual and difficult to obtain recordings, which could make it worthwhile at least to record those for future listening.
A brute force approach might be to use a dedicated PVR, such as a Humax Freesat box. Although the audio should be compressed, these PVRs tend to get confused with audio, and often think they've got to allocate Gigabytes of storage for each hour - whereas for audio much less storage is required. A modern PVR should have enough space assuming 288 hours at 1 Gigabyte should be enough to fool them into working. The next problem would be actually programming such a device to work.
Alternatives would be to run an audio capture programme from a feed from an FM or DAB set through a computer, and dump everything on to hard disc. That way the material would be captured, but it'd not be in structured chunks - just time indexed by date and time.
I'm guessing that an 80 Gbyte drive would be sufficient - for example to record using FLAC - though it might be easier to use a larger drive and do any compression later, and in any case small drives with 160+Gbytes are really rather common and cheap nowadays.
I won't be able to do this myself for some of the time as I'll be away for part of this, though I could risk leaving a system going for a day or so at a time. Is anyone else even thinking of doing anything like this?
Firstly, does anyone know if the BBC is planning to make this available on the iPlayer for an extended period, or will each item disappear after 7 days, so that we won't be able to compare the end with the beginning?
Secondly, how feasible is it to record some or all of this, for later listening? I did that with some of the earlier Bach and Beethoven series, though I actually hardly ever listen to them. There were, however, some interesting performances, and it's possible that the Beeb's Mozart Fest will have some unusual and difficult to obtain recordings, which could make it worthwhile at least to record those for future listening.
A brute force approach might be to use a dedicated PVR, such as a Humax Freesat box. Although the audio should be compressed, these PVRs tend to get confused with audio, and often think they've got to allocate Gigabytes of storage for each hour - whereas for audio much less storage is required. A modern PVR should have enough space assuming 288 hours at 1 Gigabyte should be enough to fool them into working. The next problem would be actually programming such a device to work.
Alternatives would be to run an audio capture programme from a feed from an FM or DAB set through a computer, and dump everything on to hard disc. That way the material would be captured, but it'd not be in structured chunks - just time indexed by date and time.
I'm guessing that an 80 Gbyte drive would be sufficient - for example to record using FLAC - though it might be easier to use a larger drive and do any compression later, and in any case small drives with 160+Gbytes are really rather common and cheap nowadays.
I won't be able to do this myself for some of the time as I'll be away for part of this, though I could risk leaving a system going for a day or so at a time. Is anyone else even thinking of doing anything like this?
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