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Scheduled Recording of Streamed Audio?
sborisch asks: "I have tried at least 15 different Internet Radio/Shoutcast players, looking for one with a scheduler (recorder) capability that actually works. The closest I have found are IRadio and Replay Radio, but IRadio depends on the Windows scheduler, and isn't the least bit reliable in my test of it. Replay seems to want to send everything through your sound card, and hence makes it impossible to listen to something and record something else at the same time. It does have a so-called direct download option, but this doesn't seem to work either. Surely someone has found a better solution than this. Please let me know." How would you schedule a recording streaming audio from either Windows or Unix?
mplayer has -ao and -vo (audio out and video out) redirection options so you can dump streams to files on your disk. It plays all of the streams I have thrown at it in the past.
Script it with cron?
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...or Streamripper + cron on *nix (or win32 with cron installed). Maybe I'm oversimplifying?
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
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I don't know how much this will help, but you can save streaming mp3/ogg radio streams using mplayer. "mplayer -ao pcm http://your.stream.here:port/" does the trick. This leaves an audiodump.wav file that can be converted via lame.
It would only take about five minutes (if that) to hack together a shell script that does this all automagically for you.
Wait for MythRadio to come out.
Using the Freedom of Speech while I still have it.
StationRipper. But its only for windows.
Here is how I did it.
Cron is your scheduler. man cron & crontab for more info.
mplayer will playback many streams. Give mplayer the option to output the raw audio to a file which is a named pipe. Have lame take the named pipe as input and encode to mp3.
Voila, You have a system that downloads and converts your streams straight to mp3 without any intermediate steps.
Use these two programs:
i x.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot /appl/at/
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
ftp://jur
Streamripper to download the stream, and at to schedule it for a single time. Use cron instead of at to schedule a recurring thing.
For Windows Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ will copy any audio stream - protected or not - on a schedule, or real time.
I dub thee... Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
You can argue all you want about how legal or fair this is. But no developer has found it worthwhile to bankrupt him or herself in order to fight this kind of legal action. In any case, what's really needed is the political will to change the laws that favor IP hoarding.
The only way around this problem is to record the sounds after it's been translated by authorized software. The simple way is just to plug a patch cord into your sound card. Or you can get better fidelity by using a special sound driver that copies the audio stream to disk. But either way, you can't avoid tying up your sound card, since you have to con the authorized software into giving you a stream that's supposedly going directly to your speakers.
If you need real-time access to the recorded data, get two computers and a network.
Since this is Slashdot - people might have a perverse interest in how I recorded BBC radio to mp3 back in 96/97
I had a good old fashioned FM receiver which I tuned into Radio 1, it got good reception, but not quite good enough for stereo. The output of this went into a Linux PC with a rather expensive signal capture device, which I'd rescued from the trash. This was an old fashioned ISA card which had a 20 bit ADC and I could tune the frequency to almost anything I wanted. This was used by some former resident of the observatory for some scientific work, but, being scientific grade it made an excellent sound card. At least a lot better than the built in sound on my Alpha workstation.
It was installed in an old 486 DX2/66 running linux, I had to write my own driver, I had a lot of time on my hands. This was great for capturing audio, but it didn't have enough disk space for the show or enough CPU for real time mp3 encoding.
Instead I encoded it using Shorten and piped it across the network to a more modern PC which had a couple of gigs of disk space, I could get about 8-10 hours of mono audio on there.
This host would then decode the SHN data and encode it to mp3 using Fraunhofer's l3Enc - a very early command line mp3 encoder which was available for linux. I ran this in the highest quality mode available, since the data was already stored in SHN format. I don't think that there were any machines that could reliably encode realtime mp3 at that time, so this 2 stage process was needed.
Ultimately, I stored the essential mix files to a RAID array made up of 6 1Gig SCSI disks, these disks were mounted in pairs inside cases which were about the size of a PC.
I am recalling this archaic procedure as I'm backing up my entire Essential mix collection to a 300gig disk which is about the size of a book.
Moore's Law Rocks!
Streambox VCR, which was sued out of existence by RealNetworks years ago, still works for Real audio and video streams, as well as for Microsoft's streaming formats. Here's a manual for it.
a post from my weblog:
_ sunshine/video/Summer_Sunshine_video_458.wmvi s will give you a file called "cores" in your home-directory)
... it allows you to record the output audio stream of ... and line out jacks on the sound card.
/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Common/rmacore.so.6.0: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib when it was in /usr/local/ so I copied the directories over to where it wanted to find them and everything worked ok.
/ , which seemed to work fine ripping various streams. It didn't seem to be able to read the .m3u file so I had to download the m3u file with wget and look at it and then use streamripper http://url.ogg for it to work. Cool - now I can listen to the BBC, NPR, CBC, ABC (Australian Broadcasting) and Netherlands Broadcasting when I want to and where I want to.
/dev/dsp -t raw -c 2 -
Recording Realaudio, WMF, OGG & MP3 Radio streams on your Linux box
I wanted to record a couple of radio shows so that I can listen to them later on my linux machine. Basically I would like to listen to a mix of realplayer, Windows Media, Ogg and MP3 streams and save them as mp3 or ogg files so I can listen to them later on my computer or iriver ogg/mp3 player.
First I tried mplayer's dumpstream command
1) mplayer -dumpfile cores -dumpstream http://wm.warnermusic.com/France/the_corrs/summer
(th
2) mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav cores
(this will convert the videofile to a wav audiofile)
3) lame audio.wav cores.mp3
(this will convert the file from wav to mp3)
However this process core dumped on realplayer recordings over 10 minutes. Also it doesn't know about ram files so you have to download them first (wget filename) and then open them to file the real link to the rm file. So I went on to look for some other tools.
Most of the tools seem to be wrappers around vsound and/or sox and lame/oggenc. Another tool I looked at is streamripper, which works for mp3 or ogg streams.
First I grabbed realcap which is a shell script front end to those tools. Downloaded, compiled and installed vsound.
Trick one - you have to ensure that realplayer is using OSS drivers
http://www.osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
After that seemed to work I tried directly with vsound. vsound acts as a kind of virtual audio loopback cable
vsound --timing -f myfile.wav realplay http://www.radio.org/ra/show.ram
oggenc myfile.wav
xmms myfile.ogg
I also checked out the trplayer - which is a command line wrapper to realplayer. http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html.
Got the error:
Failed to load rmacore.so.6.0:
Well I figured out that they must be looking for the real player in
Also I tried out streamripper
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net
Finally I had a look at mp3record - a bash shell wrapper for lame and sox
Basically it does this:
(sox -r $strFreqRate -t ossdsp -w -s
| lame -s 44.1 -x -b $strBitRate -m s - $strFileName) &
I would use at (sheduling demon aviable on most unices) and streamripper (for MP3) streams. Or for saving stream I would use mplayer (since it can probably handle most streams well) with pcm as output and {insert your favourite audio encoder here} for audio encoding... And probably glue it all together with some little shell script. Maybe run it on server which is always online and has proper storage and processing power... This is actually an easy thing to do, no need to make it complicated running in GUI. :)
Total Recorder is great software, and has an EXTREMELY reasonable registration price (~$12). The author(s) were very quick to add Ogg Vorbis a couple years ago, which is what convinced me to pay for it.
If you've got a mac, try audio hijack for grabbing the stream (from any software).
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Using ALSA's built in tools and ability to record straight to HD from a sound application, you just use cron to kick it all off.
:)
I also used to use cron + esd to grab realaudio and mp streams. It's actually scheduled stream ripping this guy is after and right now there are a multitude of ways to do it in Linux. Windows isn't as easy, which is not to say Linux is any easier. But if you persevere, you can make it work. I used stream ripping to grab the latest RealAudio streams of the new HHGTTG to Ogg Vorbis files.
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I've been doing this for sometime, recording about an hour of 3WK each night for listening to on the way to work. I've used bluecanard's freeware software sound recorder. It converts any sound on your system to MP3, and is command line driven. So, I just make a batch file that opens up the stream in my browser, then wait a few seconds, and fires off the commands to record it.
Although, now that I notice it, it seems they have a beta version of an internet radio recorder that would be right up your alley, and mine too. Answered a question, and learned something new and beneficial myself. Wow, gotta love how THAT worked out.
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Save yourself, pirate!
Of course, unauthorized duplication of content, including so-called "time-shifting" is against the law.
We are fully aware of your activities. We can dispatch agents to your home at any time. And we will.
However we are merciful. We will give you time to mend your ways. Simply visit the nearest Copyright Enforcement Station and confess. We will release you soon after, given you a second chance.
Simply do this and destroy your illegal copies, and you will be spared.
We see and know all. Save yourself. Your life is in YOUR hands.
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This works:
$ wget http://example.ca:8000 -O download01.mp3
so schedule this command and "Bob's your Uncle".
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I just did the same thing for a Real Video stream that is put up for democracy now everyday at 12. At 1:00, cron runs a script I wrote that uses mencoder.
Basically, the script just sets the file name based on the current date. The mencoder command is this:
$ mencoder -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame (url) -o
Which records and reencodes the stream. This has worked out extremely well. Hope this helps.
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It may be worth having a look at HiDownload. If seems to be able to handle pretty much any format, and scheduling is built-in. It's got a decent evaluation period; I've been using it for quite a while, but have only just purchased it. Plenty of time to at least see whether it does what you want...
NetTransport, it's the Holy Grail of media downloading. The scheduler works well when you get past its idiosyncrasies, but all in all, it's the best tool I've found. And I've been looking for years.
Net Transport from XI-Soft will schedule downloads. It supports http, rtsp, and mms. It also has FlashGot integration for Firefox, which makes it super easy to add streams. Give that a look.
Applian has two different recording solutions for Windows:
Replay Radio works well by recording sound coming out of your speaker, and can tune to any audio URL. It comes with a Guide of almost 1000 shows and stations, and is easy to use. It saves MP3 files, or lets you add a post-processing command to run your command-line encoder to make WMA, OGG, etc.
http://www.replay-radio.com/
WM Recorder and RM Recorder record raw Windows Media and Real streams (video, too), and come with a VCR-program when you buy them in a bundle. You'll need a separate program to convert these to MP3, but they work really well.
http://www.wmrecorder.com/
mplayer --dump-stream
the four words version is:
at
mplayer --dump-stream
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This is a tangental question.
I have looked at setting up a stream of my music collection for my enjoyment. I'd love sometype of web based frontend that would allow me to add/drop songs from the stream; add wieghting scores to a song, such that ones I really like are played more often than others; and be able to feed to stream output to someplace like Shoutcast or Live365.And, the killer, I want this tool to be open sourced on Linux, eliminating tools like WinAMP.
For every problem there is a solution that is simple, obvious and wrong.
You mean mplayer and lame don't support "-" as a file name for stdin/stdout (as appropriate), so you can't do a simple pipe like
/usr/local/bin/mplayer -ao pcm -aofile - \n a-central/fa/20040316_fa_01.rm \
rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net/real.npr.
| lame -a -m s --abr 44 --nohist - npr-show.mp3
???
Of course, unauthorized duplication of content, including so-called "time-shifting" is against the law.
We are fully aware of your activities. We can dispatch agents to your home at any time. And we will.
However we are merciful. We will give you time to mend your ways. Simply visit the nearest Copyright Enforcement Station and confess. We will release you soon after, given you a second chance.
Simply do this and destroy your illegal copies, and you will be spared.
We see and know all. Save yourself. Your life is in YOUR hands.
Our chief weapons are fear, surprise and an almost fanatical devotion to shooting ourselves in the foot while missing the boat.
This is a tangental question.
Please mod -2x+y, Tangental.
I record the Jim Rome radio show from my streaming server at home every day on my work PC. I've done this for over 4 months and never missed a momment of the show.
/usr/local/bin/recordRadio 1 1>/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/local/bin/recordRadio 2 1>/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/local/bin/recordRadio 3 1>/dev/null
/usr/local/bin/radioRecord:
/radio/$year/$month/";n um.wav";
In crontab:
0 9 * * *
0 10 * * *
0 11 * * *
It's a three hour show, I create three seperate files because it's easier for me that way.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# $Id: radioRecord,v 1.3 2004/10/19 18:37:29 anewsome Exp $
use strict;
my $num = $ARGV[0];
my $time = 3600;
my $date = `date +%F`;
$date =~ s/\n//g;
my ($year, $month, $day) = split(/-/, $date);
my $cmd = "mkdir -p
system($cmd);
my $file = "/radio/$year/$month/Jim-Rome-$year-$month-$day-$
my $timedOut = 0;
my $pid;
my $command = qq~/usr/bin/ogg123 -d wav --file "$file" http://myhost/dss.ogg~;
$SIG{ALRM} = \
if ($pid = fork) {
#print "Launched pid: $pid\n";
} elsif (defined $pid) {
exec("$command");
} else {
die "Can't fork for some reason\n";
}
alarm($time);
while (1) {
if ($timedOut == 1) {
#print "Timeout, killing $pid\n";
kill INT => $pid;
exit;
}
select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25);
}
sub timeOut {
$timedOut = 1;
}
Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ will copy any audio stream - protected or not
Not necessarily. The Secure Audio Path, introduced in Windows ME and Windows XP, allows audio files to specify that they may be played only through signed audio output drivers. Microsoft signs audio drivers only if they always disable mixing Secure Audio Path audio into any cleartext digital output such as Total Recorder's .wav output. You may have to use the analog hole for some of the more restricted streams.