Comments on: Record BBC Listen Again programs to MP3 in Ubuntu

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:33:16 +0000

Brilliant, works like a charm.

By: BBC Listen Again Service as downloadable RealAudio Stream « Some ideas and thoughts of G.B.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:09:37 +0000

[...] turns out there still is a way to get the Listen Again Real Audio Streams for Real Player. I read a blog post about a ubuntu script that’ll download the BBC Listen Again Stream, save it as wav v… This directed my to the website iPlayer Real Converter. If you give the website a iPlayer PID or [...]

By: Phil J

Phil J — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:02:12 +0000

Jono – I mailed you with my current app for harvesting that other site and automating the process of getting your favourite shows. It’s far from perfect, but there might be stuff worth taking from it. Let me know if it doesn’t arrive.

Phil J

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:51:10 +0000

Hi Phil

Do let me know if you get this up and running as I think lots of people would be interested.

Glad you found the post useful anyway…

By: Phil J

Phil J — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:32:56 +0000

Outstanding. I have been using a (Windows) app for a few years that simply captured the output from my sound card, which was pretty inefficient since it took 2 hours to record a 2 hour show, and required you to actually play the file. When they switched to the new encoded URL that they use with the iPlayer, it broke my scripts and I never got it fixed back up.

The next extension is to work out a nice way to automate how to get the URL and date of transmission out of that website (I’m thinking perhaps using links2 -dump and somehow parsing the output with awk or something) – if I get it going I’ll add it to this.

By: Les

Les — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Great script – worked a treat – 30 minute program recorded in mp3 in less than 5 minutes.

By: Jono

Jono — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:12:16 +0000

Afraid I can’t help you on that one… good luck!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:49:19 +0000

I spent ages writing my own script to do this 6 months back and now I find this, it works like a charm.
But…

Does anyone know how to download the TV programs instead of radio? That’s my next goal.

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:49:44 +0000

Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business.wav is not a valid unix filename – UNIX filenames only contain letters, numbers, and the _ (underscore) and . (dot) characters. All other characters should be avoided. I suspect that this is part of the problem.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:08:18 +0000

Found the file, for any other novices out there to find the file you have to “show hidden files” as the output is simply .mp3, you can then rename it to something.mp3 so that is no longer hidden.