Again, THANKS = I try different settings and software and see what
happens. I can always continue to download them from this newsgroup
until I get it figured out. My Raspberry Pi 3 - B should be here
Monday. Hal
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:31:42 -0500, x <x@x.x> wrote:
>Sorry, I forgot to answer your question about iheart radio.
>
>Streamripper only works for Shoutcast streams which are inherently mp3
>streams. That's what Star's End and Galactic Travels use.
>
>I don't know what iheart radio uses for a streaming protocol and haven't
>tried recording it.
>
>There might be a different Linux program that can do it.
>
>The other Windows program you mentioned (Soundtap) basically inserts a
>driver in between the player software and the soundcard. So it can save
>anything you can listen to. HOWEVER, it can only save the bytes *after*
>they've been decoded to .wav bytes. You could re-encode them to mp3 if you
>want, but that means the sound has been encoded twice, (i.e. transcoding)
>and can have a greater loss of sound quality.
>
>Streamripper doesn't do that. It saves the mp3 bytes exactly as broadcast.
>Unfortunately, it only works on a specific type of stream. These days,
>many streaming sites have gone to proprietary formats that prevent any sort
>of direct capture.
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