Hi,

Wget grabbing the stream may work for an online station, but if you're
broadcasting on-air, in some jurisdictions in the world there is a
requirement to record the air feed if at all possible.  This is the case
where I am, the regulatory expectation is that you'll keep a true copy
of your over the air broadcast for 30 days.  Normally this is done by
connecting a receiver to your recording equipment (I've actually been
told that a recording of a board feed / audio chain feed would be
acceptable if there is a reason that it is not possible to record an air
feed,  however this isn't the preference).  As a result - if there's a
way to record the air feed and instead wget with a stream gets used, it
might be considered non-compliance if the question ever came up
(admittedly this is a question I've never asked).

Just something to think about.

Lorne Tyndale


> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Kevin, Natalia, Stacey and Rochelle wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for a piece of software (if possible) that I can use at our
> > school to record the broadcast station 24/7.
> 
> I am just using wget for that. I have a cron job set to run atthe top of 
> each hour; it starts wget to record an mp3 stream from icecast running on 
> the same machine. wget is run as a child process; the parent checks the 
> elapsed time every second and when it gets to 3600 (i.e. 1 hour), it kills 
> the child process and terminates. Meanwhile, another cron job will have 
> started to record the next hour.
> 
> The files are saved with names like 3pm.mp3 in folders with names like 
> mon_sep_22_2014; the script looks for any such folder more than 90 days 
> old and deletes it.
> 
> I'm doing this for seven stations so far.
> 
> I'm not running Windows, though.
> 
> 
> Rob
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