[muglo] Re: A cool thing I taught my Mac to do
- From: "Eric Dunbar" <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:54:10 -0500
On 3/12/06, doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I like to listen a CBC show called Roots & Wings but I don't always
> have access to the radio at broadcast time and because of the nature
> of the show, they cannot provide a podcast. As the CBC broadcasts
> also on the Internet, the audio can be feed through my Mac's
> connection. Wiretap can capture the audio. This was worth the cost of
> the program because you can schedule it to launch and begin
> recording. The problem, and the one distasteful thing about it all is
> that the CBC broadcast is in Windows Media Format only. This
> unfortunately requires WMP, the only MIcrosoft product on my Mac.
> Flip4Mac can't capture this format.
>
> So you need the URL out of Windows Media Player to setup Wiretap. It
> is called to launch by a script it sent to an iCal calendar of it's
> own making. Wiretap launches WMP, WMP goes to the CBC URL and Wiretap
> records the audio, saves it to iTunes.
>
> Why are Humans the only primates with chins and nuclear weapons?
CBC does have an alternative streaming format called .ogg. I've been
sucking programs off CBC radio 1 for approx. two years now, and, for a
year with the .ogg format.
If you're up for some command-line magic, check out my post from last year =
at:
<//www.freelists.org/archives/muglo/05-2005/msg00000.html>
It's quite simple to set-up (provided you're up for some command-line
getting your hands dirty) and Mac OS X fully supports all those
commands (provided you install them ;-).
I suspect that there are some Mac OS X apps which can now play .ogg
streaming files. Check out
<http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=3Dbasic&action=3Dsearch&=
str=3Dogg&plt%5B%5D=3Dmacosx&x=3D0&y=3D0>.
You could use the .ogg stream combined with Wiretap to do what you're
doing with WMP.
Eric.
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