How to rip Internet Radio
Learn how to rip songs from your favorite internet radio station
Difficulty Rating: Easy / Moderate
CHAPTERS
1. Introduction to StreamRipper
2. Resolving the stream url
3. Setting up StreamRipper
4. Using StreamRipper
5. Making StreamRipper start with windows
CHAPTER 1. Introduction to StreamRipper
Well lets start with "knowing" what StreamRipper actualy is.
StreamRipper is a tool that can rip your favo internet radio channel
what it actualy does is just recording the sounds with the name of the song.
first it records the whole song (it wil be placed temp in the "incomplete" folder)
then when its finished it will automaticly placed into the folder of the streams name.
There two versions of StreamRipper, there's a version that runs on winamp, where
not gonna use that one in this tutorial. where gonna use the console version.
StreamRipper (WIN32 CONSOLE) can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6172&package_id=135477
CHAPTER 2. Resolving the stream url
Ok now you think. Hmm easy to resolve the url! I just copy the link from the playlist
and done! No!. here's a link to a playlist file:
http://www.mohradio.com/p/mohradio.m3u
or
http://www.hardcoreradio.nl/hr.asx
but thats just the "playlist". We don't need that. we need the streaming url
now open the file (mohradio.m3u in this case) and open it with "NOTEPAD" (not winamp or wmp!)
now you will see something like this:
you need to copy one of the url with a ip in it, in this case I choose the first one:
http://84.244.180.25:9030
thats the real streaming url.
CHAPTER 3. Setting up StreamRipper
StreamRipper has allot of options but this tutorial shows the basics, here's the syntax though:
Usage: streamripper URL [OPTIONS]
Opts: -h - Print this listing
-v - Print version info and quit
-a [file] - Rip to single file, default name is timestamped
-A - Don't write individual tracks
-d dir - The destination directory
-D pattern - Write files using specified pattern
-s - Don't create a directory for each stream
-r [[ip:]port] - Create relay server on base ip:port, default port 8000
-R #connect - Max connections to relay, default 1, -R 0 is no limit
-L file - Create a relay playlist file
-z - Don't scan for free ports if base port is not avail
-p url - Use HTTP proxy server at <url>
-o (always|never|larger) - When to tracks in complete
-t - Don't overwrite tracks in incomplete
-c - Don't auto-reconnect
-l seconds - Number of seconds to run, otherwise runs forever
-M megabytes - Stop ripping after this many megabytes
-q [start] - Add sequence number to output file
-u useragent - Use a different UserAgent than "Streamripper"
-w rulefile - Parse metadata using rules in file.
-m timeout - Number of seconds before force-closing stalled conn
-k count - Skip over first <count> tracks before starting to rip
-T - Truncate duplicated tracks in incomplete
-E command - Run external command to fetch metadata
--quiet - Don't print ripping status to console
--debug - Save debugging trace
ID3 opts (mp3/aac/nsv): [The default behavior is adding ID3V2.3 only]
-i - Don't add any ID3 tags to output file
--with-id3v1 - Add ID3V1 tags to output file
--without-id3v2 - Don't add ID3V2 tags to output file
Splitpoint opts (mp3 only):
--xs-offset=num - Shift relative to metadata (msec)
--xs-padding=num:num - Add extra to prev:next track (msec)
--xs-search-window=num:num - Search window relative to metadata (msec)
--xs-silence-length=num - Expected length of silence (msec)
Codeset opts:
--codeset-filesys=codeset - Specify codeset for the file system
--codeset-id3=codeset - Specify codeset for id3 tags
--codeset-metadata=codeset - Specify codeset for metadata
--codeset-relay=codeset - Specify codeset for the relay stream
Usage: streamripper URL [OPTIONS]
Opts: -h - Print this listing
-v - Print version info and quit
-a [file] - Rip to single file, default name is timestamped
-A - Don't write individual tracks
-d dir - The destination directory
-D pattern - Write files using specified pattern
-s - Don't create a directory for each stream
-r [[ip:]port] - Create relay server on base ip:port, default port 8000
-R #connect - Max connections to relay, default 1, -R 0 is no limit
-L file - Create a relay playlist file
-z - Don't scan for free ports if base port is not avail
-p url - Use HTTP proxy server at <url>
-o (always|never|larger) - When to tracks in complete
-t - Don't overwrite tracks in incomplete
-c - Don't auto-reconnect
-l seconds - Number of seconds to run, otherwise runs forever
-M megabytes - Stop ripping after this many megabytes
-q [start] - Add sequence number to output file
-u useragent - Use a different UserAgent than "Streamripper"
-w rulefile - Parse metadata using rules in file.
-m timeout - Number of seconds before force-closing stalled conn
-k count - Skip over first <count> tracks before starting to rip
-T - Truncate duplicated tracks in incomplete
-E command - Run external command to fetch metadata
--quiet - Don't print ripping status to console
--debug - Save debugging trace
ID3 opts (mp3/aac/nsv): [The default behavior is adding ID3V2.3 only]
-i - Don't add any ID3 tags to output file
--with-id3v1 - Add ID3V1 tags to output file
--without-id3v2 - Don't add ID3V2 tags to output file
Splitpoint opts (mp3 only):
--xs-offset=num - Shift relative to metadata (msec)
--xs-padding=num:num - Add extra to prev:next track (msec)
--xs-search-window=num:num - Search window relative to metadata (msec)
--xs-silence-length=num - Expected length of silence (msec)
Codeset opts:
--codeset-filesys=codeset - Specify codeset for the file system
--codeset-id3=codeset - Specify codeset for id3 tags
--codeset-metadata=codeset - Specify codeset for metadata
--codeset-relay=codeset - Specify codeset for the relay stream
We actually don't need any of this syntax only the url so lets make shortcut to "streamripper.exe"
and right click on it > Properties > "Shortcut" Tab
now just enter the ip after the full path like this:
well thats done now :)
CHAPTER 4. Using StreamRipper
After we setup StreamRipper we can start it by running the shortcut.
When you click the shortcut a "dos" window will appear and it will start ripping.
Here's a screenshot after some minutes of ripping
and the output:
CHAPTER 5. Making StreamRipper start with windows
This is not needed tho but it can be handy :)
Ok go to
Start > Run > Regedit
now the Registry Editor will appear
now browse to:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
now right click > New > String Value
Call it: StreamRipper
and for the value choose the path of the shortcut.
In my case:
ok your now done!
Have fun, i hope you learned from this tutorial :)
EXTRA
if you have a little programming knowledge you should make a exe that runs streamripper
with the parameters in a hidden mode so it won't bug you
Example in AutoIt:
Run("C:\streamripper\streamripper.exe http://84.244.180.25:9030", "", @SW_HIDE)
Tutorial written by: broodplank