Amos Shapira wrote:
What I'd love to be able to do is to have a cron job to automatically
record their morning 6:00-9:00 program so I can listen to it a little
later while working.
I have managed to grab Little Britain streadming audio segments off of
Radio National using mplayer in the shell.
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2004/09/25/howto-capture-streaming-audio-for-later/
was quite useful in getting this working. Briefly:
1. install mplayer and lame
2. obtain streaming URL of content
curl http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/audio/deepend_2_01082005_2856.ram
produces: rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/rn/mod/deepend_2_01082005_2856.rm?"title="Deep
End (part 2) - 01/08/2005"
3. grab the stream using mplayer
mplayer -dumpstream
rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/rn/mod/deepend_2_01082005_2856.rm
produces stream.dump
4. convert the stream to a WAV file
mplayer -ao pcm stream.dump
(( OOPS: died here: no RealPlayer codec :( ))
produces audiodump.wav
5. convert to mp3
lame --preset standard --tt "Title Goes Here" --ta "Artist Goes Here" --tl "Album Goes
Here" --ty "YEAR" --tn 1 audiodump.wav WHATEVER.mp3
Theimportant step for you is (3) above.
Creating a cronjob should be easy.
You can start mplayer at 6:00 and another cronjob can kill it at 9:00 am.
cheers
rickw
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