Radio Stream recording? Enter Streamtastic :-)
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:31pm |
I was looking for a nice easy to use GUI for the Streamripper commandline program, which is used to record online radio streams to disk, e.g. if you want to listen to them in your car.
Each of them had something i didn’t like, so i stopped looking and started coding. Streamtastic is the result. It’s an easy to use GUI for Streamripper written in Java/Swing,
and it is thus cross-platform.
I put up a simple homepage for it, you can find it in the Menu to the right.
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I would be willing to test the Windows version of Streamtastic. I love streamripper, but using the command-line version is a pain. I tried running your app as a Webstart application in Windows, and it doesn’t find streamripper.
Hope I can help…
Jeremy
Hi Andreas,
I just came by this page and reading the comment of Jeremy.
As him I also would like to be a tester for your already pretty good GUI.
To give a quick solution to Jeremy which worked with me:
I downloaded the .jnlp file of the startup link to the directory of Streamripper.
If you than double click on this file “launch.jnlp” it finds the Streamripper-program and starts up as needed.
Andreas I think you need to put a dialog at first run to have the Streamripper-directory selected, than it would start up fine.
Hope that helped a bit
/Mike
Hi Andreas,
other than that I found out following:
If you add a stream to the favorites and after that go the favorites and start a recording you can’t stop the recording.
I accidently than deleted the favorite and closed your program.
The was still ripped although your program was already closed.
I think this needs a bit of reworking.
/Mike
Hi Mike,
yes you are right, the closing of streamripper processes still needs some work.
Unfortunately it is not as easy as it seems. The process has to be “killed” although it should be closed
more gracefully. I will see if theres a better way…
With that “selection dialog” for the streamripper executable: ST revision 22 from bzr repository has a
config file override you can specify to tell ST where to look for streamripper.
I agree this is not the final solution and we still need a selection dialog, but it should work in the meantime.
Does anyone have experience in writing java code/ and possibly swing? Patches or other forms of
contributions are always very welcome
But still, testing is still needed on windows as i don’t have access to a windows machine, and its very
kind of you to offer some help in this area.
Hope to hear from you
Andreas