Recording Streaming Audio?

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Greetings,

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Hart Larry wrote:

> Hi All:  For some time we've been looking for a way to easily record either a 
> live stream or .ram files?  Back in 2004 I had a script called grabit, but 
> no1 seems to have it  any more.  When I did a search, I found a pearl script 
> called "pac"  it will convert files useing lame, but won't really rip 
> streams.

I use mplayer. When I want to record a stream, I issue the command

mplayer -playlist <urlfile> -ao pcm:file=<outputfile>.wav -vc dummy -vo 
null

urlfile is the text file which contains the url.

Regards,

Bertil Smark Nilsson