How to Download and Convert BBC Sounds to MP3 in 4 Ways

Part 1. How to Download Audio from BBC Sounds App

Apart from its well-known news reports, BBC Sounds (former BBC iPlayer Radio) also has other hot channels with popular content, like music, podcast, radio and TV shows and this service is available for almost all platforms, including personal computers, mobile devices, smart televisions, and more. But one of the disadvantages of BBC Sounds is that it allows user to listen to BBC Radio tracks on devices only with Internet connection.

Since BBC Sounds Stream is a live streaming channel for the residents living in the UK, even for UK viewers, they can’t access to BBC content when they are gone to other places. In this case, more and more users are asking for the offline playback feature for better user experience. As consequence, good news came that BBC Sounds app offers the direct Download button on BBC radio programs. Now, let's see how it works to download from BBC Sounds.

How to Download BBC Radio Shows

Step 1. Launch BBC Sounds app on your device. And then you can directly use the Search bar to discover the favorite BBC streaming audio or radio track that you'd like to download.

Step 2.Once found, you can tap the individual BBC Sounds episode you'd like to download. There are two selectable options underneath the payback screen, respectively 'Download' and 'Subscribe'. Please simply hit on the 'Download' button and it will automatically download BBC Sounds radio files for offline listening.

Step 3. Now, you will see the real-time download process. After BBC Sounds radios are downloaded well, you can locate them under the 'My Sounds' > 'Downloads' sections.

Note: Most BBC radio programmes support the downloading playback feature for 30 days only after they are broadcast. Once the 30-day period ends, BBC audio downloads will disappear from your Downloads section on your BBC Sounds app. Besides, according to different rights agreement, not all BBC radio tracks can be downloaded or they can keep in downloaded situation for a shorter period.

Part 2. How to Download BBC Sounds to MP3 on Mac/Windows

It can't be denied that it's the easiest way to use the Download function to get BBC audio download for offline playback on other countries, if the limitation of expiry doesn't brother you at all and all BBC programmes you want to download are available for downloading. If not, what will you do? You might wonder to know is there any other professional BBC Sounds downloader to download MP3 from BBC Sounds?

AudFree Audio Capture is an easy yet professional BBC radio downloader, well-designed to download any playing audio from all BBC content, like radio, TV shows, music, podcast, etc. with zero quality loss. Besides, it can save recorded BBC radios as MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A and M4B, which allows you to play BBC audios on any device offline.

Instead of downloading BBC audios officially, it seems a nice way to get radios from BBC Sounds app by recording and downloading BBC Sounds to MP3 with a powerful music downloader.

How to Download Audio from BBC Sounds to MP3

With this smart audio recorder and downloader for BBC, you can keep them permanently for your personal use. Now, let's start to use AudFree Audio Capture to get BBC Sounds MP3 downloads.

Step 1. Launch AudFree Audio Capture on your computer and check whether the target app you will use to download BBC radio from is in the installed program list. If not, just click the big '+' button to add it.

Step 2. Please click the 'audio' icon to open the setting window, in which you can define output format of BBC Sounds radio as MP3, FLAC or other audio formats and customize other output BBC audio quality, like bite rate, sample rate, etc. for download.

Step 3. Click the target browser, like Chrome or BBC Sounds app to find wanted BBC radio programmes or music tracks and then play them. AudFree Audio Capture will pop up a recording window to grab playing BBC files and save them into independent MP3 tracks correctly.

Step 4. You can quit up the whole software or stop playing BBC radio to finish the recording process. And then, you can locate BBC MP3 downloads by clicking the 'history' icon directly.

Note: This program is not free, although it offers a free trial version to test its performance and features. You need to pay for $19.95 to get the full version. Good news is that it can record not only BBC radio but also any other streaming music services, like Pandora, Apple Music, Spotify and more for offline listening.

Part 3. How to Convert BBC Sounds to MP3 Online Free

With the exception of using third-party software or the official BBC Sounds app, a free BBC Sounds to MP3 converter online is also a possible solution to download and convert BBC Sounds to MP3 without installing any software.

Speaking of online tools, we can meet Apowersoft Free Audio Recorder Online, an all-in-one audio recording tool online. It's able to record and convert BBC Sounds to MP3 online by doing a few clicks. Although the output quality of BBC radios and music tracks is lossy, it's free of charge.

How to Convert BBC Sounds to MP3 Online

Step 1. Go to the official website of this online BBC Sounds downloader and then click the 'Start Recording' icon to configure download parameters. Please choose the 'System Sound' as the target music source and click the 'Start Recording' button again.

Step 2. You can choose 'Entire Screen' option to record and convert BBC Sounds tracks with screen activity or choose 'Chrome Tab' to record BBC radios via the web browser. Hit on to 'Share system audio' > 'Share' buttons to next step.

Step 3. Now, you can search and play BBC Sounds, and this tool will start to record and save BBC Sounds as MP3 directly. When you click the 'Save' button, all BBC Sounds downloads will be saved to local computer.

Part 4. Record BBC Radio on Mobile Devices with V Radio Recorder

BBC radio has designed the BBC Sounds app for phone and tablets for users to listen to radio on the go. But AudFree Audio Capture and Apowersoft are available for Mac and Windows operating systems. Of course, you can use them to record and download audio from BBC Sounds and then transfer them to your phone via USB cable for offline listening. But sometimes, it might be inconvenient.

So here, we will introduce another mobile app, called V Radio Recorder to rip audio from BBC Sounds on mobile devices directly. You can find it in the App Store. Now, you can refer to the following step-by-step tutorial to get BBC radio.

How to Rip Audio from BBC Sounds

Step 1. Navigate to App Store on your device, discover and download V Radio Recorder. Once installed, please launch it.

Step 2. Search the BBC radio tracks that you like to record and play it. Now, you need to click the red record icon at the mobile BBC recorder and it will start recording BBC radio.

Step 3. To finish the recording process, please press the 'Record' tab and then you can find the recorded BBC radio files on the list.

Part 5. FAQs about BBC Sounds MP3 Download

Q: Can you listen to BBC Sounds offline?

Yes. Follow one of the above four ways to download BBC Sounds with ease, you can then start to listen to BBC Sounds offline as you like

Q: Why is there no download option on BBC Sounds?

It's well-noted that not all BBC episode is available for downloading offline on the programme website. Some podcast episodes can be streamed only.

Q: Where are BBC Sounds downloads stored?

Please go to 'My Sounds' section and find the 'Downloads' option to locate all BBC Sounds downloads.

Q: How to remove BBC Sounds downloaded programmes?

Once you have found all BBC Sounds downloads under the 'Downloads' section, please tap the BBC radio that you'd like to delete and then swipe it to the left and tap the 'Delete' to remove it.

Part 6. In Conclusion

Now, you can record and download audio from BBC Sounds for offline listening no matter you are a computer or mobile BBC lovers. After reading this article, do you still have some issues in getting BBC Sounds MP3 files offline? You can leave them on the comment area. Or if you know other worthy recommended BBC Sounds downloader, please be feel free to share with us.