Seeking guidance to record streaming audio at time of broadcast

[marshall]

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