debian podcasting from command line

[Hart Larry]

Well, one of our Debian Linux experts in our local LUG, who I think is on this 
list, well, Dallas wrote me this script. We call it "strm2mp3"
So for example when I wanted to record France24 during State of the Union, I 
would type:
strm2mp3 `cat france24` 
/home/chime/mp3/news/france24-president-obama-state-of-the-union-01282014.mp3
In the small file of france24  I have an url.  Now hopefully Dallas won't mind 
my sharing this following 20lines.
#!/bin/bash




YOURFIFO="/tmp/${RANDOM}.fifo"  ;
while    [ -e "${YOURFIFO}" ]
do
   YOURFIFO="/tmp/${RANDOM}.fifo"  ;
done  ;


mkfifo "${YOURFIFO}"  ;

#  ( lame --quiet  -q 2 -V 4 "${YOURFIFO}" "${2}" ; rm -f  "${YOURFIFO}" )  &

( sox -q  -t wav  "${YOURFIFO}"   -t wavpcm  -s -  | \
    lame --quiet  -q 2 -V 4 - "${2}" ; rm -f  "${YOURFIFO}" )  &


mplayer -nocache  -ao pcm:fast:file="${YOURFIFO}" -vc null -vo null  "${1}" 
Back again live, Dallas also made a similar which I can rip Firefox type 
streams, which maybe one of us will post at a later time. Hope that helps.
Hart