How to capture streaming audio?

[Robert Parker]

Have a friend in Ching Mai who dual boots XP and Ubuntu 8.10. He is
forced to boot XP when he needs to save MP3 audio streams to disc.
Anyone there have a clue how to do the job in *buntu. Alternatively
any other Linux distro that will work.
Bob
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[Jon Nettleton]

Hey all,

This is my first post to the list. I am actually from the U.S., but
will be in Melbourne come Tuesday. I figured I would start
participating now to meet some Aussie Linux users.

Of course you can setup a custom gstreamer pipeline to do what you want.
I think the easier method would be to install vlc the videolan client
and use something like this.

vlc -vvv
mms://PUT.URL.HERE :sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=192}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,url=
"OUTFILE.mp3"}}

I think you can also run through the gui wizards from the File menu to
do the same thing.

Hope that helps you out.

Jon

[Robert Parker]

Jon,
Thanks, I've passed it on.

Bob

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[Christian Lerrahn]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:04:04 +1100
Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:

> "Robert Parker" <rlp...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Have a friend in Ching Mai who dual boots XP and Ubuntu 8.10. He is
> > forced to boot XP when he needs to save MP3 audio streams to disc.
> > Anyone there have a clue how to do the job in *buntu. Alternatively
> > any other Linux distro that will work.
>

> Others have suggested various video related tools; pretty much all of
> them have some sort of capture option available.

Just to complete the set, mplayer will do it to. Just use the
-dumpstream and -dumpfile options, e.g.

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile test.mp3 mms://www.server.com/test.mp3

It will even display some nice message thanking you (illegally?) for
using patented algorithms... ;)

Cheers,
Christian

[Robert Parker]

Ric, Daniel, Christian,

Thanks for input, I'll pass it on to the guy.

Bob

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