what in linux is the equivalent for rip cast in windows ?

xmms works fine with mandrake 9.0 for listening to internet radio but i would like a way to record and keep the tagged mp3's .

thanks,

ark

i'd say the easiest way would be to use mplayer's mencoder to record to mp3. alternatively you can use mplayer with the -dumpaudio option to just save it all directly to a file in whatever format it recieves.

hadn't thought about using mplayer.......... i'll give it a try.

ark

I am trying to record a WMV/WMA stream, and mplayer doesn't even play it. VLC 1.1.11 does, but I cannot find out how to save the stream with VLC. Do you know? Thanks

If mplayer won't play it then you need to install/update your codecs. Mplayer will have to be able to play it before it'll dump or mencoder will be able to encode the media. Once you have the current codecs working then mplayer will play it.
Another option if you want to use VLC would be to use ffmpeg to capture the output of your sound card.
This example uses oss and makes a .mp3 file.
This uses alsa
Mplayer will dump any stream to file that it can play.
Or do you mean that you can't find the actual location of the media file? If so then look at rtmpdump, curl, wget

Hi, if you could play audio streams on your computer, perhaps you could try to use a recorder to record streaming audio and save it as WMA or WMV files.