Does anyone have a good way of taking streams from the web (like music
streams) and record them to whatever format, specifically .ogg or
.mp3? I first tried to use Mplayer and "dd if=/dev/sound
of=/var/audio.raw" like in the FAQ, but it kept saying that the audio
device was busy.
I then looked around on google and found something promising. It is
called "shstream" (http://shstream.sourceforge.net/). Basically, it
is a shell script that downloads the stream using Mplayer, then takes
the file and converts it. While the script appears sound, it is over
2 years old, and while it creates the "incomplete" directory, and the
pipe file, but will not create the .mp3. Mplayer is not even started,
as when I am running "top", Mplayer never appears.
I found Streamripper as well, but the audio feeds are .asf. Mplayer
plays them just fine, but it would appear Streamripper can't.
If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate hearing them.
Bryan
