Ubuntu – Recording the radio streaming of Radiotray or Rhythmbox

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I have checked the other questions before asking this one.

I am using radiotray for the streaming and wish to record the streams of di.fm.

I tried the trick with pulseaudio volume settings for recording and radiotray doesn't show up there. I am using 12.04 ubuntu.

Is there any way for recording from say rhythmbox with some plugin or radiotray with any other method?

Best Answer

Rhythmbox plugin

Yes - its certainly possible in 12.04.

I've been porting a few rhythmbox v0.x plugins to work with rhythmbox v2.9x - for example v2.96 used in 12.04 Ubuntu.

One GTK3 port is Radio-Browser

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It is packaged in my rhythmbox PPA (link) below.

Alternatively, you can clone the GitHub repository and install:

how-to

sudo apt-get install git streamripper gir1.2-gconf-2.0
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/radio-browser
cd radio-browser
./install.sh

Finally, launch Rhythmbox, activate the global menu (move your mouse to the top of the screen) - Edit - Plugins - Internet Radio Station Browser

Issues with this on GitHub not AskUbuntu or Launchpad - thanks.

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The one thing that comes to my mind, after enabling media sharing in Windows 7, is that you also have to disable "password protect sharing" in the "sharing" configuration pane for DLNA devices to be able to access Windows Media Player library.

Rhythmbox Internet Radio – Importing RadioTray Radio Stations into Rhythmbox

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The image shows the default RadioTray radio stations imported into Rhythmbox

How did I do that?

RadioTray holds its radio-stations in an XML file located in:

~/.local/share/radiotray/bookmarks.xml

Rhythmbox holds all of its data similarly in an XML file located in:

~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml

If you examine both files its pretty obvious that the XML format (its defined structure) is very different.

One solution is to transform the Radiotray XML format to something that Rhythmbox can understand.

XSLT

You can use the structured XML translation language XSLT to perform this conversion.

To install:

sudo apt-get install python-4suite-xml

Next copy the contents below into a new gedit file

Save in a file (create the folder xml if necessary) called ~/xml/style

Next, copy the RadioTray XML file to the same folder ~/xml

Finally, copy the Rhythmbox XML file to the same folder ~/xml

Drop to a terminal:

cd ~/xml
4xslt bookmarks.xml style > test.xml

This will reformat the RadioTray into the XML that can be read by RhythmBox

Next we need to add this new data to Rhythmbox.

Now open both test.xml and rhythmdb.xml

Copy the contents of test.xml EXCEPT for the first line into the rhythmdb.xml file. Note - you paste the contents at the end of the file i.e.

</entry>

*****paste test.xml here*****

</rhythmdb>

Save.

Backup the old rhythmdb.xml file and then copy over the new rhythmdb.xml file.

Fire up Rhythmbox

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">

      <xsl:for-each select="bookmarks/group/group/bookmark">
      <entry type="iradio">
        <title><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></title>
        <genre><xsl:value-of select="translate(../@name,'','')"/></genre>
        <artist></artist>
        <album></album>
    <location><xsl:value-of select="@url"/></location>
        <date>0</date>
        <media-type>application/octet-stream</media-type>
      </entry>
      </xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>