Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to  
>> music.
>> He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and  
>> whatever he
>> can find.
>
> I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to  
> download
> things in that format. Its main streaming service uses the REAL  
> protocol
> these days.

Yes, it's Real if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ and click on  
the "Listen Live" button.

I experimented with saving these with mplayer recently, and I believe  
that you may need to use its --playlist option in order for the URLs  
to work right. However I was successfully able to cancel the recording  
and resume using the same URL, which makes me think one could use cron  
to record shows on schedule.

The BBC iPlayer now offers radio, too, and I am given to understand  
that its radio shows are in decent (high?) quality MP3 format. You can  
download iPlayer shows using the iplayer-dl script <http://www.google.com/search?q=+iplayer-dl 
 > but I think you need to know the ID number of the show first, which  
you need to get from the iPlayer website. So this may not be so good  
for casual listening (official iPlayer may be good for that).

If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let  
me know.

Stroller.