> I tried doing this with the ogg stream from http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com > but the wav file always ends up with silence. Any ideas?
I'm listening to that now. I have the record script running in another console. Recording is OK. Note I have kmix with the red record light selected on the slider for IGain - depending on what card and driver you have, that could appear elsewhere, but on my system it's the one in the middle - there are two of these funny triangles, select the left one. Getting to the stream was problematic. Starting the stream and having kde run 'ogg123' just produced nothing. I had to save the .pls file and then try a variety of ways to open it. What finally worked was to direct ogg123 to the url mentioned in the pls file. I tried with mplayer as well, and it couldn't read the playlist file directly. It appears that some players can get to the URL in the playlist file, and others cannot. Sometimes the playlist or ASX file is only one line long, and if it can't open it, I use `cat foo.asx` instead :). Aside - it's interesting in that page has a premium broadcast of a *lower* quality on live365, and you can listen to the stream for free there. I tried icecast as well, there doesn't seem to be anything there. Incidentally, this whole time sink started some months ago as a thread on expert (or maybe newbie) concerning how to record live streams - something I've wanted to do for a while. There's even a Twiki page on it, but I can't remember where it is. sox - at least in Mandrake/cooker or 9.1 doesn't have the ability to record to .ogg directly. There are ways to coax it to do so, and I believe the Twiki page references that. But that was sometime ago, and through the different installs and upgrades, I've long since reverted to the sox in Mandrake. I still haven't sorted out Audacity - it doesn't seem to want to record directly off of the soundcard. It used to do that; it was fun to see the graph of the sound and the bar keep going to the right in real time. Fine - just record and then import the mp3 into Audacity ;). If this method doesn't work, you can dump the stream directly using mplayer/mencoder's stream dump option. 'mplayer -cache 64 -dumpstream http:/urlofwhateveritis' should work. The downside - you can't hear it at the same time. You'll get a file in the current working directory. When I try it on this URL, I get an ogg vorbis file. And if the URL is video, guess what -- that dumps the video content too ;). (I"m going to cc: this back to newbie - it might spark some further discussion, if you don't mind.) > Miark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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