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Removing Ads from a Live Audio Stream in Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the who-wants-to-listen-to-radio-ads-anyways dept.

Soothh writes "A local radio station here is finally doing streaming audio again on the net so i can listen at work. The catch, they go through Hiwire, which only supports Windows Media Player. Their tech page says that this technology has 'proven difficult to implement on the Unix platform.' Is there any validity to the claim that WMP is the only cost effective way to remove commercials. Anyone know other ways to get streams from real radio stations on a *nix platform?"

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  1. Here's the relevant text by PD · · Score: 4, Informative
    Copied it straight out of the link. This might help with those who didn't read the article.
    7. Why don't you support Linux/Unix/Solaris? (Unix)
    Supporting Unix is more complex than simply offering a Windows Media Player for Unix. There was a ruling in favor of AFTRA, the actor's union, which states that commercials made for radio cannot be re-broadcast onto the Internet without payment of huge royalties. Therefore, if you want to stream your radio station on the Internet you need to remove the commercials. Our software enables us to automate the process of removing radio commercials and replacing them with Internet safe ads on Windows platforms. This technology has proven difficult to implement on the Unix platform. At this point we have no plans for supporting the Unix platform.

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  2. The hiwire streaming how-to (works for me) by PhaseBurn · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been doing this for several months now, it does work, but it takes some doing...

    Start off with the streaming URL that your radio station offers... You'll want to open this in wget, and download the data inside. You'll have a 2nd stream inside this file, and some other info as well... The stream is what we're most concerned with... Download that stream with ASFRecorder. Link here. This will take up some disk space so don't leave it going when you're not listening (I usually let it write for 8 to 9 hours a day, and it fills up 100 megs or so, which I delete at the end of the day). Now, you can use the AVI plugin for XMMS to play this file on your computer. Link here.

    I hope this helps, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to e-mail me at phaseburn at phaseburn.net and I'll try to help ya out...

    Best reguards

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    1. Re:The hiwire streaming how-to (works for me) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Even easier: MPlayer can play MMS streams directly. Just type "mplayer mms://whatever" and it plays.
      Mplayer homepage