Ripping shoutcast streams (allmost tips and tricks)

[tomtom21000]

Who is looking for a new programming challenge?

Not even sure if it is possible.
WMP does not display the titles.
Would be nice to have the title diplayed.

That is what I found on the sourcforge streamripper homepage in the FAQ:

Q: How does Streamripper get the track data/meta-data from Shoutcast streams?
A: I would really like to spend a day or two and write a formal doc on how this works. But the skinny is that for every x bytes (specified by the meta-int HTTP field) Shoutcast servers send the track data. If the track hasn't changed it sends a NULL byte. If there is track data you'll get a number > 0, which is the length of the meta data divided by 16. The multiplier is so they can fit the size within one byte. The meta-data field has two fields "StreamTitle" and "StreamURL". StreamURL IMO is useless, however the StreamTitle is the track name, and is used to make the separate tracks.

tomtom21000

[tomtom21000]

O.K. I had a closer look at the sourceforge open source project streamripper.

It has the following very appealing features:

#Fetches shoutcast radio stations from shoutcast webpage
# selectable for genre
# bitrate displayed
# artist / title display of played song
# ripping to mp3 with automatic track splitting and filling id3tags
# possible to record and listen through mediaplayer at the same time

there is a lib which probably means one could make another gui or integrate it in mp in the future.
it is startable via myprograms, but certainly hard/impossible to read on screen (have only tried on desktop so far)
It is not a winamp plugin. it is a stand-alone application and it starts streams in WindowsMediaPlayer on my PC.

If you want to try:
1 click refresh button to get stations
5 go to "more options" (important!!!) and change user agent name to anything else u like (many stations won´t let u rip their stream with the standard name in the field)
1a doubleclick on station choose one of the servers
1b don´t forget to specify a destination to save the mp3´s
3 press "start rip"
4 press "connect to relay" to listen to the music in WMP (I think it opened up WMP when I tried, however might be necessary to start WMP beforehand)
-> this is also why it is not really tips and tricks: I assume it won´t play the stream in MediaPortal but open a WMP window. Haven´t tested though yet.
2 there you see the currently played title (not all stations send the necessary meta-info)

tomtom21000

description and download is here:
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/sr32/#Updates

[FlipGer]

Hie Tomtom,

hehe, i am currently considering to put Shoutcast into My Radio. But i do not know if i find the time this week. It is not to difficult. I will report in the next week.

Flip.

Cool, I think that would be excellent.