How to Record internet radio using VLC
This tutorial will explain how to record internet radio using VLC this can be done with a single command using VLC
Procedure to follow
1. Create a script file ‘recordmyshow.sh', with the following content from your terminal
#!/bin/sh
NOW=$(date +"%b-%d-%y")cvlc --run-time=7200 http://kqed-ice.streamguys.org:80/kqedradio-ch-e1 --sout "#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=/home/<user>/myshow-$NOW.mp3}" vlc://quit ;
cvlc is the commandline version of vlc
use --run-time to indicate the duration of the show in seconds
Replace the url to the radio station of your choice and dst to the path you desire.
2.Mark the file as executable
chmod +x recordmyshow.sh
3.Schedule the recording in cron.
a. Launch the cron
crontab -e
b. Put the schedule in it
00 18 * * 06 /home/<user>/recordmyshow.sh
Source from here
How would one do this for a web site that requires a login and password? Could that be included in the script?
Simply copying the URL of the radio and using Advanced Control button of recording does the same job. 🙂
@Floyd: If it supports bacis auth you can put your username and password in front of the URL like this: http://username:[email protected]
And if it doesn’t, there probably is another mechanism to do it. di.fm for example, uses a simple hash string (url?some-ugly-hash-string) to identify everyone. Ask them. 🙂
I’m to run this script (slightly modified, but the cvlc bit is effectively the same), but it starts up vlc, processes the quit part, and nothing is recorded. Removing vlc://quit works, but that will record forever. Any ideas? vlc 1.0.6 on ubuntu 10.04
I can not get the script to work.
1) I see two left curley braces but only one right curley brace in the example.
2) I have not succeeded in getting VLC to recognize a variable for the dst= for some odd reason. I want to pass a varialbe for the destination file if possible.
3) When I put –run-time=60 it doesn’t seem to work but if I leave out the = so that it reads –run-time 60 it does providing I put that after the dst=nodisplay
Any thoughts?