....cool way to record your fave radio station for your mp3 player with wget ...

[shantiq]

now summer is upon us in the Northern hemisphere some of us dare to go places and sit out in the sunshine. Now if you want your radio station but do not want to be on your mobile data and get you head b(l)asted with microwave (call me old-fashioned) it is a nice trick to store one-hour segments of your fave station and keep those on your mp3 player; then no microwave, no cost and musical enjoyment guaranteed ...

For years i have used this [example:]

cvlc --run-time=3600 http://www.radioking.com/play/radio-planeta-occitania --sout "#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=$H OME/Desktop/ Radio Planèta Occitània ♪♪ -$(date "+%a %F [%T]").mp3}" vlc://quit

always in my view a tad unwieldy and problems arise with some formats; so reading around found there is an EASIER route much easier using wget (some of you prob know this already) but I am convinced many do not; and it is really easier

I want this to be able to use a timer; maybe also to start at a given time; and to retain all data regarding time of recording in filename so this is what I came up with. May be of use to others and some might comment on improvements :]

sleep 10m 30s && timeout 3600 wget http://www.rootslegacy.fr:8080/ -O "Music/♪♪-$(date "+%a %F [%T]") Roots Legacy.mp3"

sleep lets you start when you choose in the future s seconds m minutes etc
timeout lets you manage duration in seconds here
wget + url then an extended set of time info; filling all requirements stated

Of course change red sections for your needs


NB: your mp3 player or say Foobar might groan with ♪♪ or [%T] as it produces ":" so maybe omit but every player is different so keep or omit ... Foobar under wine cannot abide ":" for example. Audacious is very happy with this ...

[TheFu]

wget completely rocks!
timeout is very handy! It accepts 1h or 60m as duration times, BTW. No need to think only in seconds.
So ... we can use sleep and that's fine, but what if we'd like to setup daily recordings or weekly recordings that always happen?
We can use cron or at for those.

I don't record audio, but do record TV using a script that accepts the channel, duration and a filename/title. Then just ask 'at' to run it 'at' sometime in the future. For example:

echo "tv-record.sh 5.4 124 The_Organization-1971" | at 02:58 fri

This will record channel 5.4 for ~2 hrs, creating a The_Organization-1971-$(date "+%F-%T").ts file. It will start a little before 3am Friday. The timestamp prevents using NTFS or Samba storage, which I see as a bonus. Stay native storage.

There are many ways to skin this problem. Sometimes the first tuner is busy on my LAN, so I need to check the return code value from it to know whether trying a 2nd or 3rd tuner would help. The timeout command has a --preserve-status option which will pass on the result from wget. Check $? for the returned value from the last command, if needed.

When scripting things, it is best to use the full-path to any programs so a limited environment won't fail over that.

Also, avoid spaces in any filenames. Later scripts won't work as easily if there are spaces. It is handy to feed 108 files into another script, which will use a space as a filename delimiter to process each file in turn.

#!/bin/bash
for filename in "$@"; do
   echo "Working on $filename .... "
.... do something kewl to each input file .... 
done

Run it with ./script *mp3
Filenames with spaces break that pattern. Won't work.

[colemanjeffrey]

thank you!

[groot02]

thanks for this, i'll try this

[griseldalani]

Thanks for sharing, it's great I will try your way.
Listen to online radio here: internetradio hören

[andrew.46]

Hi Shan!! Again it has been a while..

You could also consider using FFmpeg, which certainly looks a bit cleaner than your vlc example although perhaps not as cool as the wget usage:

sleep 10m && \
ffmpeg -i http://www.radioking.com/play/radio-planeta-occitania \
       -t 01:00:00.00 -c copy \
       "$(date "+%a %F [%T]").mp3"

which of course sleeps for 10 minutes and then uses FFmpeg to record 60 minutes of your favoured stream...

[shantiq]

Hi Shan!! Again it has been a while..

You could also consider using FFmpeg, which certainly looks a bit cleaner than your vlc example although perhaps not as cool as the wget usage:
which of course sleeps for 10 minutes and then uses FFmpeg to record 60 minutes of your favoured stream...

Hi Andrew yes nice route too
Thanx





PS: the game here for me is always gonna be the line that has the least digits in it resting those fingers
PS2: really cool tho and we all love a ffmpeg solution to a question

sleep 30s && \> ffmpeg -i http://www.radioking.com/play/radio-planeta-occitania \
>        -t 00:00:30.00 -c copy \
>        "$(date "+%a %F [%T]")radio-planeta-occitania.mp3"
ffmpeg version N-98601-g134a48a Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2)
  configuration: --prefix=/home/shan/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/shan/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/shan/ffmpeg_build/lib --extra-libs='-lpthread -lm' --bindir=/home/shan/bin --enable-gpl --enable-gnutls --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree
  libavutil      56. 57.100 / 56. 57.100
  libavcodec     58. 98.100 / 58. 98.100
  libavformat    58. 49.100 / 58. 49.100
  libavdevice    58. 11.101 / 58. 11.101
  libavfilter     7. 87.100 /  7. 87.100
  libswscale      5.  8.100 /  5.  8.100
  libswresample   3.  8.100 /  3.  8.100
  libpostproc    55.  8.100 / 55.  8.100
Input #0, mp3, from 'http://www.radioking.com/play/radio-planeta-occitania':
  Metadata:
    icy-br          : 128
    icy-description : La Radio de L'Occitania Granda 100 %  ÒC
    icy-genre       : Europe 
    icy-name        : RADIO PLANÈTA OCCITÀNIA
    icy-pub         : 1
    icy-url         : http://radio-planeta-occitania.blogspot.fr/
    StreamTitle     : 
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 128 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
Output #0, mp3, to 'Thu 2021-07-29 [15:14:04]radio-planeta-occitania.mp3':
  Metadata:
    icy-br          : 128
    icy-description : La Radio de L'Occitania Granda 100 %  ÒC
    icy-genre       : Europe 
    icy-name        : RADIO PLANÈTA OCCITÀNIA
    icy-pub         : 1
    icy-url         : http://radio-planeta-occitania.blogspot.fr/
    StreamTitle     : 
    TSSE            : Lavf58.49.100
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size=     470kB time=00:00:29.98 bitrate= 128.3kbits/s speed=1.38x    
video:0kB audio:469kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.153258%

PS3: and you totally win on the tagging

WGET:

mediainfo "♪♪-Thu 2021-07-29 [15-35-27]Radio-Planeta-Occitania.mp3"
General
Complete name                            : ♪♪-Thu 2021-07-29 [15-35-27]Radio-Planeta-Occitania.mp3
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
File size                                : 274 KiB
Duration                                 : 17 s 554 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 128 kb/s


Audio
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Format settings                          : Joint stereo
Duration                                 : 17 s 554 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate                               : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 274 KiB (100%)




=============
FFMPEG:


mediainfo Thu\ 2021-07-29\ \[15\:27\:38\]radio-planeta-occitania.mp3 
General
Complete name                            : Thu 2021-07-29 [15:27:38]radio-planeta-occitania.mp3
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
File size                                : 157 KiB
Duration                                 : 10 s 4 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 128 kb/s
Writing library                          : Lavf58.49.100
icy-br                                   : 128
icy-description                          : La Radio de L'Occitania Granda 100 %  ÒC
icy-genre                                : Europe 
icy-name                                 : RADIO PLANÈTA OCCITÀNIA
icy-pub                                  : 1
icy-url                                  : http://radio-planeta-occitania.blogspot.fr/


Audio
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Format settings                          : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration                                 : 10 s 4 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate                               : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 156 KiB (100%)