Well, I finally exhumed one of the cheapo converter boxes I mentioned before. They have good old fashioned RCA audio/video jacks on the back. Took a while to hook up and let the contraption update itself. Having 80's cable box flashbacks here.

Scanning through all the channels, I couldn't find that darn music channel. Then, I notice a button on the tiny remote with a musical note. Pressed it, and voila! All the music channels, well, just that one they don't scramble and charge extra for.

So I'm going to record straight into my old DVD recorder. Video quality is irrelevant to this, so I'm experimenting with the longer recording modes I've never used. Audio doesn't drop below 256 kps on any of those, which is more than enough for this.

Pretty sure the party is over at midnight, so I'm going to grab all I can grab! ;)