Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > cothrige wrote: >> This is pretty easy if you have either mplayer or audacity installed. >> If you happen to be playing from BBC 7 it is particularly easy, and all >> you have to do is right click on the listen link and save the ram file >> to your drive. Then you just read it as it is plain text, and inside >> you will find something like: >> >> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0930_sun.ra?BBC-UID=34f67dd2ff9daa4baac9cd5c20f0b659244a9c75a07060437bfa8149d4698951&SSO2-UID= >> > > I'm trying with this one > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml > > and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by > Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site? > >> >> BTW, if all of that fails for some reason then you can always open >> audacity (before the audio player to make sure your sound card is >> available for recording), adjust your input to volume and set the volume >> levels. Then you can open the browser and start the player, and begin >> the recording in audacity. This will record the stream as a wav as >> well, though if your signal drops out you will have to clean up any >> silent patches in the file. The mplayer way is much, much better as it >> will automatically correct any failures in the feed and so the resulting >> file will have no blank patches in it, so I really would recommend that >> way first. > > I'll also try with audacity, but I'd like to use mplayer as you suggest... > > thanks in advance > Lorenzo > The reason you couldn't find the link was that you need to click on the left hand side - the grey "Now Playing" section. This is a separate frame from the rest of the page and obviously gives different results to the right hand side, when using Firefox/Iceweasel's View Page Info. The media tab now shows the required link:
/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/fridaymusic.rpm Append this to the BBC website address and use curl in a terminal window to identify the direct realaudio link, ie: curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/fridaymusic.rpm The BBC isn't deliberately hiding the link - some pages come with a "Open in standalone player" link, others don't. I would also reiterate the need for saving the stream in .wav format as there is usually dross (news/announcements etc) at the beginning and end of the file that needs deleting. This is best done on the lossless .wav file rather than the lossy .mp3 - the latter is akin to re-editing a jpg file. And the source audio isn't exactly CD quality to start with. Audacity does a good job and offers many editing options and features. To avoid having to remember the lengthy mplayer command line switches, I generally record the stream then convert it, ie: mplayer -dumpstream URL (this is .ra format and can be played with helix/realplayer) mplayer -ao pcm stream.dump (this is .wav format and can be opened in audacity) Incidently, others have already created direct links to many of the BBC progs, see: http://www.2blu.co.uk http://beebotron.timeforabrew.com/#listenagainlinks Funnily enough, your Friday Night is Music Night link is different in each! Oh well, that's why we're using Linux - choice! HTH Cotton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
