The RIAA would have no easy way of catching a stream ripper, but
possession of ripped streaming media still sounds as illegal as a song
ripped from a CD.
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:25, John Pedersen wrote:
> Aaron, at the St. Pete SLUG meeting last night, threw out a pretty
> nice tip--at least, it was new to me.
>
> The idea of capturing streaming shoutcast MP3 files is very cool.
> First, you aren't going to get any letters from RIAA lawyers because
> of doing this. And secondly, you can enjoy your music with much less
> guilt, because unlike napster/kazaa/et al, the stations putting out
> the streaming broadcasts have legally obtained the rights to do so.
> Ok, not everybody cares about this, but if you do....
>
> Aaron told us about RipCast. And I have found two other alternatives
> and I've tried all three of them tonight.
>
> RipCast is Windoze only, free to try, and costs about $15 after the
> first 30MB of downloads. I registered after I ran out of free time,
> but they haven't emailed my unlock code yet. Of the three choices I
> tried, it's the prettiest and most polished.
>
> If you want to go the free route, there's a Windows GPL program called
> StreamRipper32. Go to:
>
> http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/sr32/
>
> StreamRipper32 isn't quite as nice as RipCast, IMHO, but it does work
> (for me anyway), and the price is right.
>
> But here's the good part (third choice). There is a Linux choice! If
> you go to:
>
> http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/srdownloads.php
>
> Under "Older Versions" there's a Linux version. In fact, I THINK (but
> am not sure) that they are keeping it up to date, as far as the
> "innards" go, but it's "older version" moniker is because it's command
> line.
>
> You will have to compile this after downloading, but it's a piece of cake.
>
> To use it, first set your Mozilla browser "helper" for .pls files to
> XMMS. (or set whatever browser and audio player you use)
>
> Browse to ShoutCast.com and find a station you like. Be sure to click
> the little "Tune in!" button; don't click on the text.
>
> As soon as you click, XMMS should open and start playing.
>
> When you find a station you like, right click anywhere on the XMMS
> player skin, and from the context menu, pick "View File Info". A
> dialog window opens, with the URL right on top. Drag-select and copy
> the URL.
>
> Paste the URL into the command line in an xterm window, like:
>
> streamripper <URL>
>
> That's it! You can specify destination directory and other things in
> the command line too.
>
> Each method seems to work ok; it remains to be seen what bugs will appear.
>
> John
>
>
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