[Wolves] Real audio stream ripper

[Stuart Langridge]

On 26/1/2005, "Barbie" <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk> wrote:

>> Anyway, can anyone suggest a way of coverting a Real stream
>> into an Ogg
>> or MP3? Linux or Windows is fine.
>
>
>There has been some discussion on this within the Perl community. Dave Cross, of London.pm, has written a script [1] to spider the BBC site and provide a list of stream links [2]. He also recommends looking at Ben Hammersley's RadioPod application [3] to get mp3s, but there may be some ogg plugins available too.
>
>[1] http://dave.org.uk/code/get_streams/
>[2] http://dave.org.uk/streams/
>[3] http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2004/11/14/releasing_radiopod.html

RadioPod is a nice Perl wrapper script that shells out to mplayer to do
the actual work; you might find it useful to look at the source to see
which mplayer options it uses...

Aq.