Dowloading of podcasts etc. - anyone have a HOWTO?

[Travis Roy]

I use streamripper with a cron script to record Dr. Dean Edell from  
the KGO website..

Below the script, then I use dircaster (http://www.dircaster.org/) to  
create the rss feed.

#!/bin/bash

## Remove old audio
rm -rf /home/travis/public_html/radio//Dr_Dean_Edell/KGO\ Newstalk\  
810\,\ san\ Francisco/incomplete/*.mp3

## Start recording stream
/usr/bin/streamripper http://abcrad.ic.llnwd.net/stream/ 
abcrad_kgo_kgo -d /home/travis/public_html/radio/Dr_Dean_Edell/ &

## wait 55 Minutes
sleep 55m

## Kill stream
kill $!

## Rename and move file
mv /home/travis/public_html/radio/Dr_Dean_Edell/KGO\ Newstalk\ 810\,\  
san\ Francisco//incomplete/\ -\ .mp3 /home/travis/public_html/radio
/Dr_Dean_Edell/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_-_Dr_Dean_Edell.mp3

## Remove old tag
/usr/bin/id3 -d /home/travis/public_html/radio/Dr_Dean_Edell/$(date +% 
Y-%m-%d)_-_Dr_Dean_Edell.mp3

## Add new tag
/usr/bin/id3 -a "KGO" -A "Dr Dean Edell" -t "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" /home/ 
travis/public_html/radio/Dr_Dean_Edell/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_- 
_Dr_Dean_Edell.mp3



On Apr 3, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:

> I hope this doesn't mean I'm becoming a podPerson, but...
>
> Does anyone have a pointer to a HOWTO for, or know how to,
> download Web files offered for "streaming" so that they can
> be staged for ripping to e.g. a portable player?
>
> (I've looked on TDLP, searched the HOWTOs list, even read Eric
> Raymond's stuff.)  No joy.
>
> podPerson'ly yrs,
> Bill
>
>
> The goal restated:
>   HOWTO download audio file(s) and/or video file(s), *not* for
>   watching as streams in a browser, but for processing/staging
>   onto e.g. USB flash devices?
>
> (A good LUG program, hint, hint?)
>
>
> Background:
> __________________________________________________________________
> Encouraged by certain other contributors to this list, I've begun
> to enliven my hours on the road with interviews and other programs
> downloaded from the Web.  An interview with Guido, for instance,
> and the one with maddog on FLOSS Weekly which was discussed here
> recently(*).
>
> Some of the programs (e.g., FLOSS Weekly) are advertised with an
> explicit URL ("Download MP3 file"), which makes it easy to wget
> them directly.
>
> Some other programs (e.g., NPR) are advertised with a URL which
> downloads a piece of text (a ".ram" file) whose contents are a URL
> (such as "http://archives.wamu.org/dr/07/04/r1070403.rm") which,
> again, is easy to wget(**).
>
> But still other programs are advertised with still other streaming
> mechanisms.  (I don't want streaming.  I'm not interested in
> listening/watching in a browser.  I want to download, rip to Ogg,
> and listen from a USB drive in the car.)
>
> For instance, today's exercise happened to be a hearing on voting
> system standards. which advertises
>     "Click here for the archived Committee event webcast.[link1]
>     You will need the free Real Player[link2] to view this webcast."
>
> [link1] reads
>     http://boss.streamos.com/real/science/sci06/071906.smi
> which can be fetched by wget, but inside is what looks like HTML
> (which I presume contains instructions for Real's BLOB to display
> the webcast in a browser).
>
> *grumble*  It's OUR House of Representatives, the webcast contains
> public information.  (We *are* allowed to download the transcript
> of this hearing as a PDF, but I can't drive, use the cellphone, and
> read a PDF all at the same time...  :)
>
> (*) maddog's interview: easy to download, but MP3  :(
> (They *used* to make Ogg available as well.)
>
> (**) .rm easy to wget: converting it to Ogg is NOT easy!  It took
> me three days to download the necessary pieces and Google for the
> command-line steps to rip to .wav and thence to .ogg.  *whew*
>
>
>
>
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