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Convert Real Audio files to MP3s
Authored by: RiotNrrrd on Feb 02, '05 03:33:51AM

If you don't have a .ram file, as long as you can get at the original stream URL (via View Source or similar), you can do


mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile [filename] rtsp://host.do.main/full/url

to dump live RealAudio streams to disk to create your own .rm files that you can then massage into MP3's.

As for this mess:

author=`mplayer "$1" -vo null -ss 10:00:00 | grep author | sed -e 's/.*:\s*$.*$/\1/'` title=`mplayer "$1" -vo null -ss 10:00:00 | grep name | sed -e 's/.*:\s*$.*$/\1/'`

How about this instead?

IFS=";" title_author=`mplayer "$1" -quiet -vo null -ss 10:00:00 2>&1 | awk -F: 'BEGIN { ORS = ";" } ; $1 ~ /name|author/ { print $2 }'` title=${title_author[0]) author=${title_author[1])

A little more legible to the uninitiated, perhaps ...

(And you get a free "Oh I didn't know awk was that cool!" and "Fun with BASH arrays" lesson out of it! ;-) )

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Convert Real Audio files to MP3s
Authored by: RiotNrrrd on Feb 02, '05 10:39:44AM

How about this instead?

IFS=";" title_author=`mplayer "$1" -quiet -vo null -ss 10:00:00 2>&1 | awk -F: 'BEGIN { ORS = ";" } ; $1 ~ /name|author/ { print $2 }'` title=${title_author[0]) author=${title_author[1])

<Mental note: "Do not post after bedtime.">

Forgot the parentheses for the array assignment. (Could've sworn I used Preview.) Let's try that again:


IFS=";" title_author=(`mplayer "$1" -quiet -vo null -ss 10:00:00 2>&1 | awk -F: 'BEGIN { ORS = ";" } ; $1 ~ /name|author/ { print $2 }'`)


title=${title_author[0])


author=${title_author[1])

Convert Real Audio files to MP3s
Authored by: bluehz on Feb 02, '05 04:57:42PM

That is very cool - anyway - you could walk us through whats going on there?

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