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A few years ago, I created a process on my Mac to automatically download a radio program that aired live late at night. I didn't want to stay up to record it, so I used software (now defunct) to do so. Now that I'm immersing myself in MX Linux, I notice that there is a streamripper program. In fact, there are several.

$ sudo apt search streamripper
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fadecut/oldstable,oldstable 0.1.4-1.1 all
toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles

streamripper/oldstable 1.64.6-1+b2 amd64
download online streams into audio files

streamtuner2/stretch,stretch 2.1.9-1.1 all
Browser for Internet Radio Stations

tunapie/oldstable,oldstable 2.1.19-1 all
Lists audio and video streams from Shoutcast and Icecast

The streamtuner2 looks promising, as it's new. Anyone had any experience with these? The ultimate test will be if I can get the stream to auto-start from their URL.

Streamtuner2 isn't new.

It's been in our sister distro antiX by default for ages (not sure if it's default in the latest 19 beta) and it's easily installed from the Debian stretch (mx17/18) repos via synaptic or MX Packageinstaller.

I don't use the recording of streams function though, so can't comment on it.

Why not just install it and try?

PS. You're on mx18, right? Not the MX 19 beta?

You can try this to get you started in the right direction: https://superuser.com/questions/650274/ ... ation-from

asqwerth wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:34 pm Streamtuner2 isn't new.

It's been in our sister distro antiX by default for ages (not sure if it's default in the latest 19 beta) and it's easily installed from the Debian stretch (mx17/18) repos via synaptic or MX Packageinstaller.

I don't use the recording of streams function though, so can't comment on it.

Why not just install it and try?

PS. You're on mx18, right? Not the MX 19 beta?

Correct. After testing various distros on thumb drives on different machines, MX Linux impressed me the most. I downloaded and installed 18.3 on a partition on my Mac.

Even though I installed the latest streamripper, it simply throws a segmentation fault every time I try to launch it.

You might want to check out VLC as it can record network streams. You can do it from the program it self or from a script. I record a prodcast with it and since it is a mp3 file it saves it to my Music folder.

towwire wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:59 pm You might want to check out VLC as it can record network streams. You can do it from the program it self or from a script. I record a prodcast with it and since it is a mp3 file it saves it to my Music folder.

Thanks. I thought of that, but I'll have to research it. The program I'm wanting to record streams through the radio station's web site. I'm not sure if there's an API to record it.

For VLC go to view and check Advance Controls, then do it again for Status Bar. If VLC can play your network then it can record when you click the red record button. It saves it in your Music Folder wit something like "vlc-record-2019-09-02-18h38m04s-1. "TITLE what ever it is".mp3", the date is the time of your recording. It also works for podcasts with date-time and name of it.

What you want form a link of your radio station's web site is for it to provide one that is for either "Listen with Windows Media" or "Listen with Real Player" or "Listen with Apple Music". If all they give you is their embedded media, its hard to fine the link they use.

Here is one you can test to get an idea of how it works. In your browser:
http://www.wcpt820.com/ then click on "Listen Live" and then on the right you will see "Station links", just right click on one of those from above and copy link location to paste into VLC Media/Open Network Stream.

If you can not find a link for your station like above, it will be hard to save an listen later.

Did you try the recording function of streamtuner2?