[clug] Saving Real streams

[Simon Cousins]

I'm OT here (missed the last CLUG meeting), but this might still be of
interest.

A friend of a friend has had good results of saving Shoutcast (streaming
MP3) streams to disk, neatly cut up into titled individual tracks, using the
Streamripper:

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

Needless to say, applicable copyright laws exist.

/src


Paul Bryan wrote:

> Hi, at the last CLUG meeting, someone asked about saving Real streams.
> I've had a little look at it ('cause I wanna' do it to), and came up with
> a couple of possibilites. I haven't had the chance to try these out yet
> though.
> 
> Solution 1: xmms has an input plugin for listening to Real audio. If you
> use the output plugin that saves audio to a wav file rather than sending
> to an audio device or sound server, your set. I've used the output plugin
> with other inputs and it works fine. I couldn't get the Real plugin
> working though. Mind you, I didn't try very hard (just put it in the
> plugin directory and it didn't show up). If you can get the Real plugin
> working though, I can't see why you couldn't use the file save output
> plugin.
> 
> Solution 2: TRPlayer is a command line Real player. You should be able to
> use this and pipe the output to some program that saves the audio to a
> file. Doing it this way, I can't see why you couldn't pipe it through
> something like oggenc and re-encode at the same time. I haven't had a
> chance to try TRPlayer yet, but hopefully I'll get a chance sometime this
> week.
> 
> Solution 3: As it's got to unencode the stream to send it to the audio
> device, I can't see why you couldn't write a driver that takes the raw
> audio and writes it to a file anyway. Maybe you could even use a fifo for
> the audio device...
> 
> Solution 4: Some other way. I'm sure someone could write some sort of Perl
> script to do it. Lord knows, there's a script for everyting else...
> 
> Just a few thoughts.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul.