On Saturday 13 March 2004 08:38 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:40:12 -0500 > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It gets better. Install streamripper, and you can record the streams > > to your HD as MP3. > > Have you tried this? I wonder if this is a cooker thing, as I gave the > thing a go twice last week, both on shoutcast stations. I found later on > that one of the sites I used was monaural (was a classic rock station) > but the other one was Virgin Radio UK. Virgin was probably not a good > test site to use in any case with streamripper because it's a commercial > radio station with a lot of talking going on - they even talk over the > first few seconds of the songs just like many domestic radio stations in > the US do (gives more time for commercials). I ran streamripper on it > for 24 hours and got a CD's worth of mp3 tunes. > > So maybe it's not a good empirical test, but one thing I noticed is that > the timings were all off - many songs had snippets of other songs at the > end of them, and since streamripper puts each song into its own > filename, it would be a nightmare trying to repair the mp3s with > audacity and try and match up the snippets with the beginnings of the > songs they belong to. > > I'll have to try this again, but it just seems there's a buffering issue > or something that opens the new file too quickly. > > > JoeHill > > Also there is realrekord (plf I believe) has hooks to record realaudio > content (that didn't work too well) but has a (very small) database of > stations to try. streamtuner/streamripper is a good choice but > shoutcast/icecast/live365 are mostly not "radio" stations that would be > found in Windows media player. > > I could of course use some more stations to try :). But my approach so > far has been to collect little header files with the stations url and > other options, then pass that to an mplayer command line. I can make a > simple pushbutton icon on the desktop, name it with the call letters of > the station & go from there. If I get too many radio stations I'll of > course have to come up with groups like "classical" "rock" "country" and > so forth :). Not as elegant I suppose as going through a list of > stations in WMP, but it's a lot better than going through increasing > levels of hoops from the radio station's page in Mozilla just to get to > the player link. google on kfsat.com A dead radio station that dosen't stink up your speakers (not much)
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