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Offline coffeetime

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Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« on: September 17, 2009, 10:48:33 AM »
While using PCLinuxOS, I love to listen the music and sometimes comes a song, concert or remix or whatever, which I would like to have. And there's an easy solution.

What you need is:
-Amarok ;D
-Kstreamripper
-RecordRadio script

You'll find Kstreamripper in Synaptic. When installed, go here and download RecordRadio script.

Install RadioScript:
Open Amarok/Tools/Script Manager:



In a new pop up window, press Install Script button on the right. Point it to where you've just downloaded the script (probably on your Desktop):



After installation you should see the installed script:



As you can see, you have now to options:
-to RecordRadio-OnDemand or
-to RecordRadio-Always

Personally I use RecordRadio-OnDemand, so I can record what I want, when I want (your choice). After choosing between these two options, Run the script! Mark the option (in my case RecordRadio-OnDemand) and press Run button. The icon in front of RecordRadio-OnDemand is now visible, which means the script is running:



Now (still in Amarok) for example, double click Shoutcast and choose a radio station, which you like:



Right mouse click on the selected station. Choose Record radio/Listen to and Record Stream:



That's it.

Don't forget that you can add your own favourite radio stations in Amarok's Playlists and record the music. The options are numerous ;D. Open Amarok/Playlists/click Add/Radio Stream and fill out needed info.

As you can see, you can also record Podcasts!. Just add them in Amarok/Playlists/click Add/Podcast

Music will be automatically saved to /home/yourname/Music as one folder with the name of the radio station and one as Podcasts. When advertising kicks in, Kstreamripper will separate them from another saved music files. Feel free to delete them.

Enjoy your new CD collections.




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« Last Edit: September 18, 2009, 03:04:46 AM by coffeetime »
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 09:12:06 PM »
is this also going to work with :
http://tropicalglen.com/index.html

??
I am totally unfamiliar with this type of things, hence the question
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2009, 10:10:21 PM »
..I've often wondered how difficult this would be;  thanks for the great write up!

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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2009, 02:59:04 AM »
is this also going to work with :
http://tropicalglen.com/index.html

Nope. The stream link is not available. As long as you can add radio stream in Amarok's Playlist, you can record.
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 07:11:35 AM »
I have been using audacity to do this.  While playing my radio station in the browser, all I do is open audacity and push the record button. Then I can export it to mpe, ogg,  wav or whatever after I have cleaned up the beginnings and endings. I have used audacity to convert a lot of my vinyl to CD. 
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2009, 07:52:36 AM »
A great tool, thanks Coffeetime

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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2009, 05:05:58 AM »
@coffeetime
Thanks for Instructions, now i store my own Hit-CD  ;D

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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 03:51:34 PM »
>For KDE 4 users,


Open Amarok/Tools/Script Manager/Get new scripts. In search box type RecordStream. Click install and restart Amarok.

Listen some radio station, than click Tools and choose between:
-record live stream
-record web radio
-record to wav file
-stop recording

Music will be stored in your ~/Music folder. And don't forget to install streamripper from Synaptic!

Enjoy ;)



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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 05:16:59 PM »
is this also going to work with :
http://tropicalglen.com/index.html

??
I am totally unfamiliar with this type of things, hence the question
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They are SWF like this 1950 to 1954 channel so do not play in audio players

http://www.tropicalglen.com/Jukebox/50-54Top/myjukebox.swf

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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2009, 06:28:49 PM »
coffeetime....thanks for this post...very easy to follow.
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2009, 10:16:31 PM »
Uh, it looks like kstreamripper is not in the KDE4 repo yet.

Gotta wait.  Have a great evening!  :)
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Re: Recording music from your favourite radio stations
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2009, 02:48:40 AM »
Uh, it looks like kstreamripper is not in the KDE4 repo yet.

Gotta wait.  Have a great evening!  :)

No, it's not. But you don't need it. Install streamripper. ;)
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