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how to rip streaming audio to mp3 in Linux (bonus: silence trimming and id3 tags)

September 17th, 2007 by carl

The usual readers of this blog (all three of you) may find this quite uninteresting, but I’m posting it here as Google-fodder in hopes it may be useful to someone out there.

Say there’s an internet audio stream that interests you (like, for example, a radio feed). But say you’d rather not listen to it while tied to a device with an internet connection - you need to rip it to a file on disk. And lastly, just for kicks, say the radio feed already has its advertisements kindly blanked out with silence by the stream provider, but you find those three-minute silences irritating to skip over manually.

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