[Gllug] Recording a RealAudio radio programme...

[Dylan]

On Friday 03 October 2003 10:07 am, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Dylan announce to the hordes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to record a RealAudio stream (or even if it's
> > possible)? I want to record a BBC London programme so a friend in
> > Scotland can listen to it - but he's on a flaky dialup so can't reliably
> > stream it down himself.
> >
> > I figure at worst I can jack it across from one machine to another via
> > audio lead, but I'd much prefer to make it happen automagic-like!
>
> I've tinkered with that and managed it (for recording bbc7).
> It's quite simple if you're using alsa
> go into alsamixer, and turn up the volume on the capture device and the aux
> device, press space on both of them to select them as capture devices.
>
> Then you can just use /dev/dsp as the audio capture device.
>
> i.e. cat /dev/dsp > london.raw
> or use oggenc/whatever other program you want to use to capture it.
> The cat method has the disadvantage of not automatically stopping at the
> end of the required time, but, you get the idea.

Now that sounds much easier!!

Thanks

Dylan
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