I second Marc's recommendation.
Rob's method is the easiest without having to learn ALSA or PulseAudio. Just
grab the stream.
In fact, I used that method initially (but still added my own RAMdisk piece to
the equation to extend the life of the HD).
Later, I wanted to record directly via soundcard (initially, on-board
motherboard soundcard, then a dedicated soundcard).
This gave me more options for lossless, higher-bitrate MP3, etc.
The wget method is quite elegant though, and the MP3 doesn't glitch audibly
from the process-kill.
Cheers,
Rick
KMUZ Engineering
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From: Marc Steele <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Looking for Looping Software to record Broadcast
Hello,
It's also possible to do this with LiquidSoap in the Linux world. We've
had it configured to log soundcard input and webstream sources in hourly
chunks at different stations.
On the Windows side of things, I've seen Powerlog, in-house tools, odd
little £20 tools you've never heard of before and RadioMonitor (who use
Linux for their logging platform anyway). The catch with some of the
cheep-n-cheerful tools on Windows is that we've seen support stop on
them with no notice. Not great when you might have Ofcom chapping on the
door requesting some audio.
Rob's suggesting reminds me of us doing the same at a student radio
station years ago. It worked surprisingly well.
Regards,
Marc.
On 22/09/2014 11:53, Rob Landry wrote:
>
>
> 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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