Recording Audio Streams

[Bob Marcan]

Bill Polhemus wrote:
> One of the difficulties with using Fedora (or Linux in general) as a 
> desktop system is the greater demand on the user's general computer 
> savvy. Of course, software written for Windows (and even the Mac) 
> assumes a certain naivete on the part of the end-user, and they package, 
> advertise and deploy software with that in mind.
> 
> For some time, I have been using this product for Windows 
> <http://www.applian.com/replay-music/index.php>, which allows me to 
> record streaming audio as I play it from one of the on-demand music 
> services. Nice thing about it is, you're still paying for the music, but 
> you can save and play later without being online. If you are ethical--as 
> are we all--and don't give away or sell the resulting MP3s, you're still 
> legal (even while you're not hampered by the ridiculous DRM 
> schemes--another plus).
> 
> Anyway, I am wondering what, if any, Linux software is available to do 
> this. I get the impression that mplayer 
> <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html> will do it--although the 
> documentation for that application, like so many others in the Linux 
> world, is far from explicit in that regard. Again, it looks like if 
> you're savvy about this stuff--maybe you have to be able to read the 
> source, I dunno--then you can figure it out. But I'm not, or I don't 
> have time to get up to speed. I'm looking for something that "just 
> works" on Fedora Linux.
> 
> Of course, I can always move over to a Windows machine and do this, but 
> I'm trying earnestly to move 100% over to Linux now, and this is one of 
> those "must have" functions I'm looking to implement accordingly.
> 
> Any advice would be MOST welcome.
> 

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer

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