HPR4287: Schedule audio recordings on the command line
Hosted by Kevie on 2025-01-07 00:00:00This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.
TuxJam co-host Kevie does a follow up show to episode 4249 with a look at scheduling a stream recording using crontab and the ffmpeg command. The two things that we will need to set this up are the audio stream url and the time of the show.
To set this up we need to go setup a new Cron task: crontab -e and navigate to the bottom of the file.
The first thing that it will expect you to enter is the timing for this task, this will be written as * * * * * with the information needed being converted into an appropriate number:
| minute | hour | day of month | month | day of week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0-59) | (0-23) | (1-31) | (1-12) | (0-7) |
| * | * | * | * | * |
Then we need to enter ffmpeg -i followed by the stream URL.
It is important that we include the duration of the recording, so that this doesn't output a huge file. To set the time enter -t HH:MM:SS making sure to replace the HH(hours) MM(minutes) and SS(seconds) with numbers.
Almost done. The last thing we need to do is to enter the location for the file to go along with the name /path/filename.ogg.
So in short form the command is * * * * * ffmpeg -i https://streamurl -t HH:MM:SS /path/filename.ogg.
The example used in the show for Dan Lynch's Mid Week Pick and Mix: 00 19 * * 4 ffmpeg -i https://arrowestream.radioca.st/;?ver=737183.mp3 -t 02:00:00 ~/Recordings/DanLynchPickMix.ogg
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Henrik Hemrin says: Inspiring episode
RE: hpr4287::2025-01-07 Schedule audio recordings on the command line by Kevie00:11:56 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
This was an inspiring episode Kevie! It starts thoughts of when I can have use of it.
As you said, the computer must be turned on in order to have the scheduled recording to record. It got me thinking of the Termux app for Android based phones. I have not tested, but I thinking of that it might work to get this command line recording to work on the phone.
Also the Transistor app for Android phones was interesting, I like the app after my first trials.
Kevie says: example radio stream
RE: hpr4287::2025-01-07 Schedule audio recordings on the command line by Kevie00:11:56 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
The URL https://arrowestream.radioca.st/;?ver=737183.mp3 streamed from the command line but failed when using ffmpeg substitute this for https://tinyurl.com/4pd3txdc and it works fine.
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