Re: [Wlug] Stream rippers

29 Aug 2005


      You can use mplayer. There was an article on it in the last Linux Journal.
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From: Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net>
Date: 2005/08/29 Mon AM 01:09:45 EDT
To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org>
Subject: [Wlug] Stream rippers
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HI gang,
Does anybody have a favorite stream ripper that they'd like to recommend?
FYI, a stream ripper (as I've very recently learned) is a program which
"listens" to a streaming audio broadcast and saves that information on
your hard drive.  Streaming audio broadcasts are available on
shoutcast.com and icecast.org, and probably many other places.
I'm using a program called 'streamripper' (strangely enough) which I
found at http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/.  I'm wondering what
others might be using.  It has a feature where songs can be saved as
individual .mp3 (or .ogg) files, or the whole stream can be saved in one
file.  I've downloaded these songs into my portable MP3 player for later
enjoyment.
There seems to be some controversy about the use of such programs.
Frankly, I don't see it as any different than holding a microphone in
front of the radio.  Granted, the quality is much better with a ripper.
Prior to learning something about stream rippers, I had been using the
Ogg encoder output feature of xmms while xmms was "tuned" to a streaming
audio broadcast.  As I understand it, this involves taking the stream
source (an MP3 stream generally) and re-encoding it into the Ogg format,
which technically involves a loss of quality (can I hear it?  I'm not
sure...).
Later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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