Recording from radio stream

[d6jg]

the ffmpeg command line is very simple for flac output. Use differennt -f value for MP3 or I think just use extension mp3 on output file. The hard job is getting a url that is valid as it is only valid for a short time.

ffmpeg -i <urlofprog> -f flac output.flc

I am not familiar with ffmpeg but I can't see the result being any different than playing the LOD HLS stream via LMS using squeezelite or squeezeplay and "recording" the output with Audacity.

[bpa]

I am not familiar with ffmpeg but I can't see the result being any different than playing the LOD HLS stream via LMS using squeezelite or squeezeplay and "recording" the output with Audacity.

Fewer steps and easier to set up with cron.

[d6jg]

Fewer steps and easier to set up with cron.

Provided you can find the URL

[philippe_44]

btw, without any hack, squeezelite output can be redirect to stdout. So anything send to such a virtual player can be recorded this way. I guess if you want a 'red button' that could just be switching on the squeezelite instance - without coding

[d6jg]

btw, without any hack, squeezelite output can be redirect to stdout. So anything send to such a virtual player can be recorded this way. I guess if you want a 'red button' that could just be switching on the squeezelite instance - without coding

What would be the command syntax Phillipe ?

[philippe_44]

Use -o - for stdout and then potentially redirect that to a file or pipe it to something to recompress

[bpa]

Provided you can find the URL

Beebotron lite is a starting point e.g. http://beebotron.org/public3/radio4fmhq.html

[Learnincurve]

Use -o - for stdout and then potentially redirect that to a file or pipe it to something to recompress

Hi again,

As getiplayer no longer supports BBC radio streams and as BBC flac is live only, I'm trying to implement this now.

Have tried a variant using an asound.conf to use the alsa pcm file plugin, as described here. I can save a system file as a new file by playing it back like this:
aplay -Dsave /usr/share/orage/sounds/Phone.wav

but if I try to start squeezelite using the same output device, it fails:

./squeezelite -o save -n Recorder
squeezelite: pcm_file.c:576: snd_pcm_file_mmap_commit: Assertion `ofs == offset && siz == size' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

I'm thinking that a stdout redirect would be a more elegant sultion anyway, but can't think how to do that in the squeezelite start command.

Did anyone get this working?

BR.

--Marius--

[bpa]

BBC reads these forums and recording streams is not allowed within T&Cs - it is one of the reason why they changed their system and broke getiplayer.

If you want to discuss please do it via PM or another forum as I don't want BBC to see that recording is condoned.

[JohnB]

As getiplayer no longer supports BBC radio streams and as BBC flac is live only, I'm trying to implement this now.

It supports BBC On Demand streams, at least it does via the command line (which is what I would use).

VLC nightly 3.0.0 supports the BBC FLAC live streams, which can be recorded either via the standard VLC interface or via the command line.

I feel nervous about discussing this because my understanding is that the BBC intensely dislikes people capturing the raw streams and the last thing we want to do is cause the BBC to make changes which harm our use of the iPlayer plugin.