recording webradio

[Thomas Kaiser]

On 06/23/2010 02:53 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>    assume some of you has lots of experience with this simple problem.
> I want (need) to record an internet transmission of a certain concert
> next sunday.
> I can receive the 'sender' and listen to it using vlc no problem.
> However, i cannot find how to save the stream to a file (eventually for
> burning). A big ptoblem is that the interface of vlc is completely
> different from the interface presented in the documentation.
> My system: AMD Phenom II (4-core)  4Gb mem. Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic).
> I have ample space to record (>1 Tb).
> Can anybody give me directions how to record this stream which has the
> following specs:
> Codec wma2; channels stereo; sample rate 48000 Hz; 16 bits.
> It is sufficient to burn it later to a CD.
> Joep
>
> PS. I sent this mail also to the Linux-audio-users list.
> Joep
>

When you have the correct source of the stream. "wget" is handy.

I do "wget http://live.radiol.li:8000/live" in a Terminal and can reply 
the file called "live" with vlc...

see "vlc -h" or the man page for more information

Thomas