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Comment on 'XMonline in Ruby!' by John

2007-12-30T23:37:10Z

Thanks, Steve. This is just what I need; works like a charm. (And thanks for the suggestion too, Jim.)

Comment on 'XMonline in Ruby!' by jim

2007-12-20T02:08:32Z

Helpful script, thanks. For those interested, mplayer also lets you save the stream to a file, so edit the ‘player’ line in ~/.xmradio to something like this (all on one line):

player: mplayer -msglevel all=-1 -dumpstream -dumpfile /home/jim/tmp/xmradio_stream -vc dummy -vo null -playlist

(Which I found here:) http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/05/20/recording-streaming-audio-with-mplayer/

Comment on 'XMonline in Ruby!' by UniCav

2007-12-13T14:56:24Z

Steve, Any way to run this thing in the background with no text output other than errors (maybe to a separate log) so you could run it as an rc.d script? I’m running the ruby script on the slackware box that controls my phone system so it’s on our music on hold (we have a business account) but it won’t run in the background. I tried cutting all the output from the script but it just logs in, connects and then stops.