Comments on: Rip / record online radio stream

By: Daljeet

Daljeet — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:30:44 +0000

i have a Stream and I want to create 1 minute capsules of the stream continuously,, how can i do it with ffmpeg or any other tool ?

By: A

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:07:33 +0000

this script Stop the record.
only required adjust the recording time via the crontab

#!/bin/sh
aa=`ps -A | grep mplayer | awk ‘{print $1}’`
kill -9 $aa

By: KwangErn Liew

KwangErn Liew — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:49:56 +0000

For legalties, it’s not a problem. RIAA even confirmed it.

http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2007/07/riaa-admits-str.html

By: shakir

shakir — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:16:40 +0000

Vishal: You can take a look at cron and see what you can do to start the script. As to stop it, I normally have a killall command in my cron entry, or to be based on the mplayer’s man page, you’re supposed to be able to do this too:

-endpos 56
Stop at 56 seconds.
-endpos 01:10:00
Stop at 1 hour 10 minutes.

Donneker:
I’ve downloaded and tried you script + streamtuner, and I must say it’s a good one. My script however is meant for a simple purpose and I hope it serve its purpose well

By: Donneker

Donneker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:24:07 +0000

Hi, I dunno if you could use this, but I have modified an bash script which I found on the Internet myself. Its called radio_rip. I modified it best for my needs, and it saves bandwith because you can hear and record music just with one single connection to the streaming server. because of the base how its working, it has some buffer seconds, which perhaps could be enough for your internet connection too. I would advise that you try it, and perhaps you could mail me how you found it. See http://www.donneker.de/projects/radio-rip
hf & gl

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:24:42 +0000

how about if you want to just record one show from say 10:00 am to 12:00 pm for 2 hours? Can you help with that please..

thanks,
vishal

By: shakir

shakir — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:45:59 +0000

Thanks for pointing these out. And talking about size, the original script should be updated to delete old dumps as one night's dump can take around 300MB for a 96kbps stream.

#!/bin/bash
URL=http://64.62.252.130:8070
WORKDIR=/home/shakir/temp/mplayerdump
MAXDUMP=3
CURRENTDUMP=`ls $WORKDIR | wc -l`

mv $WORKDIR/current.mp3 $WORKDIR/`date +%F`.mp3
if [ $CURRENTDUMP -ge $MAXDUMP ]
then
    for i in `ls $WORKDIR | head -n $[($CURRENTDUMP-$MAXDUMP)+1]`
    do
        rm $WORKDIR/$i
    done
fi

#mplayer -dumpstream $URL -dumpfile $WORKDIR/current.mp3
ffmpeg -i $URL -ab 128 $WORKDIR/current.mp3

By: mysurface

mysurface — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:32:39 +0000

Haha, just put as .mp3 will do, I have tried.

mplayer -dumpstream $URL -dumpfile $DUMPDIR/current.mp3

by the way, you can use ffmpeg for dumping too, and it is much more better, because the size of the file is visible to you.

ffmpeg -i $URL -ab 128 current.mp3

By: shakir

shakir — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:58:13 +0000

It’s saved as raw stream, and I haven’t tried any player other than mplayer to play the file. Haven’t tried converting it too, but I guess mencoder can help with that.

By: mysurface

mysurface — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:00:40 +0000

Cool! Mplayer really capable of doing a lots more.
What kind of file format is the dump file been recorded? Can we converted into mp3?