PC Tips & Tricks

What you need:

1. Connection to Internet
2. The Linux distro you prefer
3. Streamripper
4. Streamtuner
5. XMMS (optional)

Depending the Linux distribution you use, you can install streamtuner and streamripper from repositories or you can get the sources and compile yourself.
You can find the sources here:

[download#1]
[download#2]

Streamripper is under development, so you should take a look here for new versions.

So, you have now the sources for this 2 applications. It’s time to unpack the sources:
tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

Both application have installation instructions, so compiling the source code is very easy. Anyway, it should work with:

./configure
./make
sudo make install


If everything went OK, you should be able to start streamtuner:

pctips@linux:~> streamtuner &

For ripping to work, all you have to do is to set the folder where you want the music to be saved. For this go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications and there you must modify the “Record a stream” command:

You can also add different parameters to streamripper command, for a list of available options type streamripper -h in console.

If you have xmms installed or other player which knows how to play streams you will be able to listen to the music you record.
To start recording all you have to do is to select the radio station you want and click on the “Record” button. If you also want to listen to what you record press the “Tune in” button.

If recording starts, you will see in the folder you specified a new folder with the name of the station you record. Inside this folder the mp3 files will be saved, one for every song. You will also see a console with some statistics for the recording.

Note that Streamripper doesn’t do a perfect job parsing your songs into individual MP3s. Unfortunately, there tends to be a few seconds of overlap at the beginning and/or end of the songs. If this bothers you, you can always edit your newly recorded songs with Audacity.

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