On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote:
I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to
music.
He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and
whatever he
can find.
I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to
download
things in that format. Its main streaming service uses the REAL
protocol
these days.
Yes, it's Real if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ and click on
the "Listen Live" button.
I experimented with saving these with mplayer recently, and I believe
that you may need to use its --playlist option in order for the URLs
to work right. However I was successfully able to cancel the recording
and resume using the same URL, which makes me think one could use cron
to record shows on schedule.
The BBC iPlayer now offers radio, too, and I am given to understand
that its radio shows are in decent (high?) quality MP3 format. You can
download iPlayer shows using the iplayer-dl script <http://www.google.com/search?q=+iplayer-dl
> but I think you need to know the ID number of the show first, which
you need to get from the iPlayer website. So this may not be so good
for casual listening (official iPlayer may be good for that).
If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let
me know.
Stroller.
