Check out http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/mp3ivo/
I did this a while ago when I got tired of missing my favorite radio shows. There's also a web front end there for easily playing stuff that you record. It's all driven by cron and very, very basic. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 -- There is no certainty, there is only opportunity