Atlas
March 22nd, 2005, 09:38
Came across this last night as I was setting up a timer on an old AM radio and tape deck to get the new Regular Guys shows:

http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/02/27/howto-convert-streams-mp3/

There are two provided scripts. One handles scheduling through cron and at. The other invokes lame and mplayer to pull a stream and compress it to MP3 and dies after a specified time period (length of the show).

Coupled with kplaylist (http://kplaylist.net/) to stream the MP3s, this combination makes my work day go by a lot smoother. Plus it works even on networks that typically block media streaming.