How To rip your fav Web-Radio Station to mp3 from the commandline

lowrider · 2012-08-15 20:21:41

Well this community helped me so often out, so i think it's time to give back a little.

If you sometimes think hm, great radiostation i am listening to. Would be nice if i can record this tunes automagically to my hd.
Nevermind, you can.
There is this little program called streamripper and it just do that. Rip a Webradio Station to fine cutted mp3's to your hd.

you can get it from the repos with:

sudo apt-get install streamripper

to run it type:
streamripper *url_of_stream*
aka

streamripper http://voxsc1.somafm.com:8850

as an example.

By default it creates a directory for any Station in the Folder from where the command is started.
You can change this by setting a output_dir in ~/.config/streamripper/streamripper.ini like so:

[sripper]
version=1.64.5
url=

[stream defaults]
url=
proxy=
output_dir=/home/rolf/music/WebRadio/
output_pattern=
showfile_pattern=
if_name=
rules_file=
pls_file=
relay_ip=
useragent=
ext_cmd=
relay_port=8000
max_port=18000
max_connections=1
maxMB_bytes=0
dropcount=1
over_write_complete=version
auto_reconnect=1
separate_dirs=1
make_relay=0
add_numeric_prefix=0
add_date_stamp=0
check_max_bytes=0
keep_incomplete=0
rip_single_file=0
truncate_incomplete_when_in_complete=0
rip_individual_tracks=1
use_ext_cmd=0
add_id3v1=0
add_id3v2=1
xs=1
xs_offset=0
xs_silence_length=1000
xs_search_window_1=6000
xs_search_window_2=6000
xs_padding_1=0
xs_padding_2=0
codeset_metadata=ISO-8859-1
codeset_relay=ISO-8859-1
codeset_id3=UTF-16
codeset_filesys=UTF-8

The result of it can easy be seen on the screenshot followed.
showing:
- moc playing a web-stream (not needed for recording)
- streamripper doing his job
- thunar showing the output on hd
- geany with a .pls file from which i grabbed the streamurl

for a huge amount of radiostations you can look at shoutcast.com.

or try the .pls file i have used (which is from a forum member here, but i forgot who it was. apologies for that)
http://pastebin.com/QNV5yLh6

sorry for typos or bad english. have fun.

rhowaldt · 2012-08-15 20:26:20

nice! is this illegal?

lowrider · 2012-08-15 20:33:00

no, it's not! you can allways record from radio or am i misinformed?

pvsage · 2012-08-15 20:42:53

^ Technically, that's illegal too, but "everybody does it". And most portable media players with radio tuners and recording capabilities will let you do it, so...

rhowaldt · 2012-08-15 20:46:42

so, grey area. not that i care much, but just let it be mentioned at least, for those who do care

lowrider · 2012-08-15 20:49:59

well, i don't steal or copy/dl music from the web. i just record a radiostation as i do since the early days of casette-tapes. these are no highlevel copys like flac or even raw cd-audio...

edit:
<---- junkie from now on

Last edited by lowrider (2012-08-15 20:50:50)

pvsage · 2012-08-15 20:51:30

I've used the "analog hole" to record internet streams before, but this looks more like a bit dump. I think this may be slightly less illegal; seems to me the more steps you have to take to pull it off, the less legal it is.

friTTe · 2012-08-15 21:27:26

Omg...never got time to try this, but looks so simple and easy to use.
Will grab it right away

*ripping as i write this...to a folder of my choice thanks to the guide there

Last edited by friTTe (2012-08-15 21:36:57)

lowrider · 2012-08-15 21:48:53

^mission completed

gensym · 2012-08-16 20:55:46

This is gold.

edps · 2012-08-16 22:50:38

lowrider wrote:

^mission completed

@lowrider: great work man!

this how-to was adapted to the brazilian language:

http://gnu2all.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/ … minal.html

thanks for sharing!

Neil · 2012-08-16 23:39:27

Awesome! I've casually wonder if there were a way to record Web-Radio, and here it is. Thanks!
Now if there is a way to schedule recordings of my favorite live Web-Radio shows.... that would be even awesomer.

pidsley · 2012-08-16 23:42:16

Neil wrote:

Awesome! I've casually wonder if there were a way to record Web-Radio, and here it is. Thanks!
Now if there is a way to schedule recordings of my favorite live Web-Radio shows.... that would be even awesomer.

If you want to leave your machine on all the time, it would be easy to set a cron job to start streamripper at a particular time.

Neil · 2012-08-16 23:52:15

Cool...my machine generally runs 24/7 anyway. Still learning something new every day.

pidsley · 2012-08-16 23:56:17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
"man cron"

Last edited by pidsley (2012-08-16 23:56:36)

lowrider · 2012-08-17 21:46:11

thanks guys for the nice comments!
glad you like it

VastOne · 2012-10-30 04:06:32

^ Nice one lowrider, I missed this somehow when you created it...

I have used streamripper for years and swear by it...

Also in the repos is streamtuner2 which uses streamripper as it's backend ... It is a great resource for finding active streams/urls and then simply right clicking on it to record it with streamripper

It has the following Stream Channels to choose from

SHOUTcast
Xiph.org
InternetRadio
Jamendo
MyOggRadio
Live365
MusicGoal
Modarchive
Google

ohnonot · 2012-12-18 10:25:22

it's not illegal to record to hard disk what you are listening to. or to cassette. or wax cylinders.

pvsage · 2012-12-18 13:59:03

Actually, it kinda is. This actually goes back to a time when consumers of music were actually paying for the physical copy of the recording, not just the music itself. Consumers were aware that vinyl discs rear and get scratched, so they may need to be replaced with new copies that they would also have to purchase. A cassette copy reduces the wear on the record, so the record company doesn't sell as many copies. (Note that I'm not even bringing the idea of artists' residuals into this, as the record companies hardly even give their properties squat. ) It's considered a rather petty crime, not even rising to the level of jaywalking, but it's still technically illegal.

Recording a free broadcast is a gray area. If it's recorded off a commercial radio station, the station conceivably loses ad revenue...

johnraff · 2012-12-19 17:16:15

VastOne wrote:

streamtuner2 which uses streamripper as its backend

Well, more as an addon than backend maybe... Anyway streamtuner2 is a useful app to have around!

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