Mark_in_Hollywood
December 14th, 2008, 11:17 PM
I have, since Breezy, wanted to rip a stream off the 'net. I've tried to find the right combination of software to do this, again, today. Making this the 5th or 6th attempt since Breezy (maybe Hoary)
When I googled: ubuntu ripping audio stream
I eventually found:
HowToRipRealaudioStreamsToMp3 (last edited 2008-10-14 18:12:18 by littlergirl)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRipRealaudioStreamsToMp3
I thought this would be a good starting point, as it had the Ubuntu "look".
And, even though it uses Real Audio (which I had experienced very bad luck with a few years ago), I thought: "By now, it must be better", so I d/l-d realaudio. That worked, no problem! But when I tried to find vsound, it's not in the repositories. It is on the 'net but that page seems to have not had work done on it since 2004. Maybe that doesn't mean anything. I'm not a coder, I write cookbooks (food) for a living. So, I couldn't go further. I got confused. Maybe the vsound was perfected. Perfected a long time ago and it won't crash the new sound system. But the results of googleing for vsound & LaunchPad leaves me feeling bad. And as the package had been removed from the repositories, I chickened out. I don't like spending time fixing what something (somebody) else broke.
My point is: since there is no way for an end-user such as myself, who needs software and applications to be "user friendly" enough to not make things worse, to know whether the above mentioned page would work, yet DO NO HARM, and as in doing further research it seems as though Ubuntu may have moved more towards MPlayer, Lame, etc., but there is NO way for me to figure this out on my own, I'm posting about it here. In hopes that someone reading this can give me some directions.
Thanks for working your way through my long post.
When I googled: ubuntu ripping audio stream
I eventually found:
HowToRipRealaudioStreamsToMp3 (last edited 2008-10-14 18:12:18 by littlergirl)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRipRealaudioStreamsToMp3
I thought this would be a good starting point, as it had the Ubuntu "look".
And, even though it uses Real Audio (which I had experienced very bad luck with a few years ago), I thought: "By now, it must be better", so I d/l-d realaudio. That worked, no problem! But when I tried to find vsound, it's not in the repositories. It is on the 'net but that page seems to have not had work done on it since 2004. Maybe that doesn't mean anything. I'm not a coder, I write cookbooks (food) for a living. So, I couldn't go further. I got confused. Maybe the vsound was perfected. Perfected a long time ago and it won't crash the new sound system. But the results of googleing for vsound & LaunchPad leaves me feeling bad. And as the package had been removed from the repositories, I chickened out. I don't like spending time fixing what something (somebody) else broke.
My point is: since there is no way for an end-user such as myself, who needs software and applications to be "user friendly" enough to not make things worse, to know whether the above mentioned page would work, yet DO NO HARM, and as in doing further research it seems as though Ubuntu may have moved more towards MPlayer, Lame, etc., but there is NO way for me to figure this out on my own, I'm posting about it here. In hopes that someone reading this can give me some directions.
Thanks for working your way through my long post.