[ale] Streaming audio to file

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:39 -0400, Grady Harris wrote:
> This is a simple one, but I left myself without much time for testing,
> so I figured I'd ask. An old band mate & I will be interviewed on the
> radio this evening; the station, KZMU , in Moab,  streams its
> broadcasts online. The link for the stream is .m3u. What would be a
> simple way to send the stream to a file, so I can listen to it later?
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, with the usual media players & tools.

The m3u file is a list of stream location(s).  A playlist.  Download the
file with wget and then get the URL out

wget -O - http://www.site.com/.... | tee file.mp3 | mplayer -

If mplayer does not like '-' use /dev/stdin instead.

I'm sure there is a shorter way of doing it too.

> 
> Grady Harris
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