User: blogmatrix

BlogMatrix Sparks records Real and WMP formats

On: Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving

I've been working on BlogMatrix Sparks! for the last few months and it's definitely what this person is looking for:

• it's open source
• can record most -- every one I've seen -- streaming radio formats (including Windows Media and Real Player)
• it runs as a native (GUI) app on Windows and Mac and (in the works) as a Python app on Linux
• it converts recorded programs into MP3s
• MP3s are optionally treated as Podcasts and stored in iTunes or Windows Media Player
• there's a searchable directory of thousands of radio stations. This is really important as many radio stations try to hide their recording URIs
• radio can be recorded now, once only at a particular time or on a repeating basis (i.e. weekly)
• programming information is encoded into URI fragments to allow programming to be shared amongst multiple users
• here's some (old) screenshots

Credit where credit is due: this is an integration project on top of MPlayer and Lame. Ongoing project news is in our blog.

- David Janes

Torrents + RSS + Readers

On: Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your TV

I suppose this is a good time to mention that BlogMatrix Jäger (http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com) now has pretty good support for Torrents attached as RSS enclosures. I just finished coding this up last week for the Windows version and released a Mac (beta) version that supports it on the weekend.

Now if there only was more feeds supporting torrents....