Ubuntu – How to record internet radio

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In 10.04 it was easy to display icecast streams; but whenever i click on the plugin nothing happens and no stream directory is loaded. The station recorder plugin seems to have disappeared also. If somenbody nows a fix thanx a lot.

Best Answer

Streamtuner + Streamripper:

or maybe

sudo apt-get install streamripper streamtuner

(I found a streamtuner2 in Synaptic too)

Run Streamtuner - There are a lot of radios listed in there, search and just add them to bookmarks.

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The music starts playing in external player (default player can be changed in Preferences). Recording automatically starts Streamripper - in terminal (by default, xterm).

Can only record mp3. Gives specific name of music file as specified by the radio.

Settings for custom folder for recorded files might not work, they go in home/user/name-of-radio.

Recording stops if xterm or Streamtuner is closed.

To add other stations that streamtuner might not know of - you can do that in Streamtuner - Stream - New Preselection. (See a possible problem here.)