Recording from an Atom

Posted by: Neil Mack on 12 December 2017

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there any way of recording radio in the digital domain from the Atom? The only means I can see is to record from the pre-out terminals, which of course are analogue - hardly ideal.

Thanks,

Neil

Posted on: 12 December 2017 by TallGuy

I think you may be able to connect a PC to a digital output (not sure about USB) and record using Audacity*. I haven't tried it so I could be hopelessly wrong.

* I'm sure there's more software than this which will do it - it's the only one I know as it is what I used to "digitize" my records.

Posted on: 12 December 2017 by Neil Mack

But there doesn't appear to be a digital output on the Atom - hence my question.

Posted on: 13 December 2017 by ChrisSU

Naim don’t put digital outputs on their all in one players, so the short answer is no, it can’t be done. You might be better off looking for a computer based solution.

Posted on: 13 December 2017 by TallGuy

Neil Mack posted:
But there doesn't appear to be a digital output on the Atom - hence my question.

Sorry, I'd assumed there is one. I'd also assumed that the USB port would allow output as it takes read/write devices such as hard disks. Wrong again

Failing that connect the pre-amp or headphone out to a laptop/macbook analogue input socket and let it do an Analogue to digital conversion with its soundcard and use Audacity (or similar). Not ideal as there's bound to be some conversion 'loss', but as it's only a 320kb/s(ish) radio stream it's probably not going to be audiable.