[svlug] MP3 stream capture

[David E. Fox]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:31:54 -0800
Mike Castle <dalgoda at gmail.com> wrote:

> One neat thing about streamripper is it will break songs up into
> individual .mp3s, provided that the source encodes the proper stuff.

Yes, provided of course that the station on the other side is
cooperative enough not to screw up the beginnings and endings of songs.
For instance some years ago I pointed streamripper at one of
virgin.co.uk or other and let it go for a day or two. Got a (burned) cd
full of mp3s at the end, but most of the songs were not synced
properly, and since they're cut up and sorted (alphabetically) the
start of one song is <45 mins (give or take) from the finish of it :).

Anytime you do timeshifting of course, you hope that the source keeps
the same time as your box (this happens too with tivo and dish network
often -- the starts aren't quite right, or the tail end of the previous
program is at the start of the file for the next one).

> Speaking of time shifting though... can this dumpfile stuff work with
> real audio?  Or another recommended tool?

Not real audio specifically. But if mplayer understands Real Audio (and
it takes a bit of work to get that enabled) you can point it to a .ra
file or rtsp:// type URL and have it dump the file in whatever form you
want.

> Currently I use mplayer to dump realaudio to wav and then reencode
> with ogg (yeah I know, that's why I want to capture with RA directly).

Can mplayer dump straight to .ogg? I haven't tried it. But I don't see
the need to have realaudio do the recording.

On another related note, google for realrekord. It's a litle tool that
does RA streaming. I played with it off and on but haven't tried it
lately.


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