Seeking guidance to record streaming audio at time of broadcast

[marshall]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:21:29 +0100
marshall <marshall at mcleave.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:18:06 +0100
> Clive <clivebuc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have not used get_iplayer to record a live broadcast. I would like
> > to record Saturday's BBC R3 Opera Tosca at 6pm (in the highest
> > quality available). I would be grateful if someone could give me the
> > command line, with an explanation, and explain how I find the server
> > details for a particular broadcast.
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> > Clive
> 
> While running the risk of getting kicked in the balls for saying so
> here, I use mplayer to do the recording of live radio programmes.
> mplayer seems to handle live streams better (for me), I see less
> stream drops and cut outs than using get_iplayer.
> 
> The command
> 
> mplayer 'url_of_stream' -dumpstream -dumpfile captured_file_name.aac
> 
> mplayer
> 'http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_lc1_radio3_p?s=1317145324&e=1317159724&h=b006a0bc719af9662e473ebc29ae78a6'
> -dumpstream -dumpfile r3.aac
> 
> This dumps the 320kbit aac stream into a file called r3.aac
> 
> To find a radio stream url go to somewhere like
> http://www.listenlive.eu/uk.html and open the playlist file of the
> station/format/bitrate in a text editor and just copy and paste it
> into the above command. (Make sure you surround the url in single '
> quotes or the "&'s" will cause you problems.)
> 
> -Marshall
> 

Yeah I forgot to say ctrl-c to end/finsh the stream dump.