capturing CBC Radio from an internet stream

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 3 19:16:51 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:57:25AM -0500, Eric Battersby wrote:
> I have not used ogg vorbis before.
> I don't have any portable "MP3 players" that plays that format
> and I've had about 10 players in the past.
> 
> I assume you are capturing it from:
> 
>   http://vorbis.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-toronto.ogg
> 
> How are you capturing it?
> 
> I tried this to grab a 15s segment:
> 
>   timeout -w 15 --
>    wget -v -O tmp.ogg http://vorbis.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-toronto.ogg
> 
>   (see The Unix Prog Env. for a similar 'timeout')
> 
> I got a 36s segment OGG file.  It appears that some history is captured
> in the stream also.
> Could you break your shows into segments shorter than 1h, if 1h
> is a problem?

As I showed in my reply, I use streamripper to capture a specific amount
of the stream, and it works great.

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