Most stations that stream MP3 or OGG music can be recorded. This is
accomplished through the command-line tool
You can configure the recording tool
according to audio types again. Usually you want to use the
There's already a default entry for recording radio stations:
Format | Application |
audio/* |
Streamripper has a few more options of its own:
To define an exact download directory:
Use a specific filename pattern:
Just record a continuous stream, for 1 hour, without splitting individual songs from a radio station:
Pretend to be an audio player (in case recording is blocked):
Whenever you leave out the
See the streamripper(1) man page or its FAQ for more tips.
As alternative to streamripper, check out fIcy/fPls for recording ICEcast/SHOUTcast streaming servers.
It can be configured just as easily with:
You can also try a streamripper GUI or graphical reimplementation:
StreamRipStar (Java), works best per drag and drop; set the DND format to PLS or M3U however.
Streamtastic (Java), only imports a text entry per drag and drop.
KStreamRipper, though no current version in distros.
VLC has built-in recording capabilities.
Which all simplify defining a custom download directory, or how radio streams are split (between advertisement breaks), and the naming scheme for resulting *.mp3 filenames of course.
The recording settings already have a specific entry for "video/youtube" URLs.
To configure a custom download directory, use:
The
To download audio files from The MOD Archive directly, you can also define a custom handler.
Scroll/click on the ⎘ empty row in the recording application list.
There create a new recording MIME type:
audio/mod+zip
Specifiy a command like:
All MOD file formats (IT, XM, S3M, etc.) are mapped to this generic type specifier.