Re: [SLUG] Listening/recording Vega 95.3FM on Linux?

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Amos Shapira wrote:

> What I'd love to be able to do is to have a cron job to automatically
> record their morning 6:00-9:00 program so I can listen to it a little
> later while working.

I have managed to grab Little Britain streadming audio segments off of
Radio National using mplayer in the shell.

http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2004/09/25/howto-capture-streaming-audio-for-later/

was quite useful in getting this working. Briefly:

1. install mplayer and lame

2. obtain streaming URL of content
   curl http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/audio/deepend_2_01082005_2856.ram
   produces: rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/rn/mod/deepend_2_01082005_2856.rm?"title="Deep End (part 2) - 01/08/2005"

3. grab the stream using mplayer

   mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/rn/mod/deepend_2_01082005_2856.rm

   produces stream.dump

4. convert the stream to a WAV file
   mplayer -ao pcm stream.dump
   (( OOPS: died here: no RealPlayer codec :( ))
   produces audiodump.wav

5. convert to mp3

   lame --preset standard --tt "Title Goes Here" --ta "Artist Goes Here" --tl "Album Goes Here" --ty "YEAR" --tn 1 audiodump.wav WHATEVER.mp3


Theimportant step for you is (3) above. 

Creating a cronjob should be easy.

You can start mplayer at 6:00 and another cronjob can kill it at 9:00 am.


cheers
rickw




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