How to record internet radio with DSL
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How to record internet radio with DSL
started by: newOldUser
Posted by newOldUser on Mar. 26 2006,13:50
I've posted a "How to..." in the blog space at < How to Record Internet Radio with DSL >.Comments and questions are welcome but please post them here rather then in the blog.
Posted by humpty on Mar. 26 2006,14:20
i haven't tried it on linux but i think streamripper does the job too.
Posted by newOldUser on Mar. 27 2006,01:11
Yep.... there's even a dsl module for streamripper. 
Posted by clacker on Mar. 27 2006,02:33
newOldUser, thanks for that! It's always interesting to see what can be done. I never even thought I could make a copy that way using mplayer.I saw you made a comment there about the word wrapping in the blog fouling up your command lines. Could you maybe break the long command lines into sections and terminate each of those sections with a \ character? I've seen that done before and then if someone copies and pastes into bash it will work.
Thanks again for the tips, I'm looking forward to the next installment.
Posted by dmizzel on Mar. 27 2006,04:07
From my understanding, an mp3 implies a recorded show (meaning not a live broadcast). I say this because (unless i'm trippin') mp3 is not possible to create 'on the fly' or as a stream, it is 'off-line' compression done on a recording after it is recorded. Therefore, for any mp3.... right click, save as... will record any show to harddisk.As far as an actual stream (something other than mp3), I believe it is necessary to record it as a wave (.wav) and then convert it to an mp3 when the recording is completed (if you want the benefit of the reduced size that the mp3 format provides).
So, for non-mp3's your blog/post looks like some good info (although I haven't tried it yet).
Posted by newOldUser on Mar. 27 2006,12:46
clacker - Thanks, scripting is still new for me and I didn't think about the \ character. dmizzel - The stations I listen to offer streaming MP3 broadcasts. I think the station does the compression and streaming in near real-time. I guess I could find a local station and listen to it on the radio and on the internet and there would probably be some internet lag time... On DSL I use the EDNA dsl module to do mp3 streaming in my home. If your station does not offer an mp3 stream then you can use mplayer to record the broadcast as a wav file and convert it to mp3 (or ogg or flac or ...) on your own.
Posted by humpty on Mar. 27 2006,23:28
| Quote (clacker @ Mar. 26 2006,21:33) |
| I never even thought I could make a copy that way using mplayer. |
didn't know that either. But I do know that mplayer used to be packaged with mencoder - which does encoding.
Posted by newOldUser on Mar. 30 2006,00:14
Part Two of the write up is now posted at < newOldUser Blog >. It deals with automating tasks without Cron.
Posted by fisher on Mar. 30 2006,01:01
Thanks for the hard work and script to use instead of cron.