[NMLUG] recording streaming media

[havoc at harrisdev.com (havoc)]

Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> Does anybody know of a way to record streaming media?
> There are some radio news broadcasts (about the New Orleans floods)
> that I really want to be able to capture for the schools.

Here's my (very primitive) stream ripper:

--------------------------------- BEGIN
#!/bin/bash

# if the URL provided is to a ram container, extract ra or rm url
case "$1" in
        *.ram) URL=`wget -O - $1 | head -n 1` ;;
        *) URL=$1 ;;
esac

# strip the extension from known extensions
# so far, only ra and rm
case "$URL" in
        *.rm) bname=`basename $1 .rm` ;;
        *.ra) bname=`basename $1 .ra` ;;
        *.ram) bname=`basename $1 .ram` ;;
        *) bname=`basename $1` ;;
esac

# if $2 is defined, make it the name of the outfile
# otherwise, use the renamed basename
case "$2" in
        [0-9a-zA-z]*) outfile="$2" ;;
        *) outfile=downloads/$bname.mp3 ;;
esac


mkdir /tmp/$bname.$$
cd /tmp/$bname.$$
mplayer -nortc -nojoystick -nolirc -ao pcm -vc dummy -vo null "$URL"
cd $HOME
lame -h -a /tmp/$bname.$$/audiodump.wav "$outfile"
rm /tmp/$bname.$$ -rf
--------------------------------- END

There are a lot of things you could add.  I just run it from the command
line.

j
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