<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="recording">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="streams#actions"/>
<link type="guide" xref="configuration#recording"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#functions"/>
<desc>Save radio songs as MP3 files via streamripper.</desc>
</info>
<title>Recording</title>
<p>Most stations that stream MP3 or OGG music can be recorded. This is
accomplished through the command-line tool <app>streamripper</app>. If you
select a station and press <gui style="button">● record</gui>, a console
window should appear, where streamripper shows its progress.</p>
<p>You can <link xref="configuration">configure the recording tool</link> according to audio types again.</p>
<section>
<title>Streamripper</title>
<p>The <cmd>xterm -e</cmd> prefix brings up the terminal popup. If you want
silent downloads in the background (instead of seeing its progress), remove
the xterm call.</p>
<table shade="rows" rules="rows cols">
<thead> <tr><td><p>Format</p></td> <td><p>Application</p></td></tr> </thead>
<tr><td><p><var>audio/*</var></p></td> <td><p><cmd>xterm -e streamripper %srv</cmd></p></td></tr>
</table>
<p>To configure a default download directory, use the <cmd>-d</cmd> option to streamripper.
For example <cmd>xterm -e "streamripper -d /media/music/"</cmd> would use an absolute path.
Else it downloads to the current working directory (often your HOME path),
and creates one directory per radio station there.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>fIcy/fPls</title>
<p>As alternative to streamripper, check out <link href="http://freshcode.club/projects/ficy">fIcy/fPls</link>
for recording ICEcast/SHOUTcast streaming servers.</p>
<p>It can be configured with <cmd>xterm -e "fPls %srv"</cmd> simply.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Youtube-DL</title>
<p>The recording settings have a specific entry for "video/youtube" URLs. To configure a specific download
directory, use <cmd>xterm -e "cd /media/music ; youtube-dl %srv"</cmd> for example. (The <cmd>cd</cmd>
trick works with streamripper too.)</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Wget for MOD files</title>
<p>To download audio files from The MOD Archive directly, you can define a
few custom handlers. Scroll/click on the empty row in the recording apps
table. There create a new recording MIME type <var>audio/mod+zip</var> with
a command like <cmd>xterm -e wget %srv</cmd>. Copy it alike for
<var>audio/it+zip</var> and <var>audio/xm+zip</var> to cover the most common
file types. Using <cmd>curl</cmd> would also work of course. </p>
</section>
</page>