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ronald146m · 11-11-2007, 18:14

Hi alien
Thanks for the reply.

I've downloaded Orbit and cranked it up through Wine. It looks as though it might work.
But I already have Linux tools for downloading. It's just a matter of finding the right link to feed in.

When I look through that media player's frame source there are 554 lines of code to inspect.

When I do a search for rpm it comes up with many many hits.

This is the one that is needed:-
<embed src="/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/soundsixties.rpm"
It's on line number 208.

Then, like you said, add http://www.bbc.co.uk to the front.

To give:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows...undsixties.rpm

Then I copy and paste it into my Linux gizmo.
What happens then is that Real Player opens up and as the programme is playing it dumps a stream onto my HDD as a wav file. In real time.
Then afterwards I can change it to mp3 or whatever.

So it's do-able.

There's just a bit of donkey work trawling through all that code for a link. Though, if it's always the third or fourth occurrence, that makes it easier to find. And I would still need to do that search when using Orbit.

I was hoping for a piece of silver-bullet software that would hook it out for me.

But it's getting better, thanks for the "rpm" pointer/clue.

11-11-2007, 18:14	#3
ronald146m Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 388	Re: Recording BBC radio 'Listen Again' programmes. Hi alien Thanks for the reply. I've downloaded Orbit and cranked it up through Wine. It looks as though it might work. But I already have Linux tools for downloading. It's just a matter of finding the right link to feed in. When I look through that media player's frame source there are 554 lines of code to inspect. When I do a search for rpm it comes up with many many hits. This is the one that is needed:- <embed src="/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/soundsixties.rpm" It's on line number 208. Then, like you said, add http://www.bbc.co.uk to the front. To give:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows...undsixties.rpm Then I copy and paste it into my Linux gizmo. What happens then is that Real Player opens up and as the programme is playing it dumps a stream onto my HDD as a wav file. In real time. Then afterwards I can change it to mp3 or whatever. So it's do-able. There's just a bit of donkey work trawling through all that code for a link. Though, if it's always the third or fourth occurrence, that makes it easier to find. And I would still need to do that search when using Orbit. I was hoping for a piece of silver-bullet software that would hook it out for me. But it's getting better, thanks for the "rpm" pointer/clue.