Re: [linux-audio-user] recorder for streaming audio

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] recorder for streaming audio
From: Joern Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 12:16:40 EEST

Mark Constable wrote:
>
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Paulson Samuel <paulson_s_AT_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>I am looking for a tool to record streaming audio from
> >>the internet say in Real audio or other format to MP3
> >>format on to the disk. Could anyone please tell me
> >>about a tool in linux for this?
> >
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/
>
> It uses the loopback device from ALSA 0.5. I'm also looking
> for some method to save out a wav file for whatever I am
> listening to... no luck so far and I'd rather not complicate
> a delicate 0.9 installation with 0.5 as well.

from reading the page (scroll down to the bottom) my impression is it
LD_PRELOADs the OSS ioctls and skims the data into a file without it
ever seeing the sound hardware or the real drivers. haven't tried,
though.

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