[ILUG] "downloading" music

[David Cathcart]

Yep, bought radio card on ebay for 20 euro incleuding shipping. Can't 
remember which one it was, but it was an isa cad and was one of the ones 
openbsd supports. It is essentially an interface to a tuner. It needs a 
sound card to capture the sound. It is simply a radio card and not a 
radio / tv card (though i do the tv thing too). I wrote a few simple 
scripts to rip programs to ogg and threw them into cron / at. 
Few comments.

*Make sure you have a good soundcard, i can hear the disk writes as very 
quiet noise in my card. 
*You won't get any song titles this way. And unless you have some nifty 
silence-detecting track splitter you wont get single songs. 
*If you have cable-link use this, they rebroadcast a fair number of fm 
stations (particularly the bbc ones), signal strength is higher and you 
get better audio. 
*Forget about long/medium wave.

I don't use it to record much music, but rather speech. Espially plays. 
It would be interesting to hook up my scanner and have a much larger 
tunable range (i think it might have an pc interface). 

David C.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:44:36AM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> so i recently learned those wacky kids today are ripping streams with
> programs like stationripper: http://www.ratajik.com/StationRipper/
> but it makes me wonder, why not get a radio card and rip that stream?
> certainly a great way to increase your bandwidth.
> 
> anyone try this?
> 
> kevin
> 
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