On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> wrote:
   I've tried
whats suggested here to no avail:
 tim@debian:/tmp$ streamripper
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1.shtml -r Connecting...
 error -54 [SR_ERROR_NOT_SHOUTCAST_STREAM]
 bye..
 Are these types of streams accessible?  I don't know where to
 start, even to identify what sort of stream it is! 
 The BBC trialled Ogg Vorbis/Icecast streaming but last thing I heard
 was that they weren't making it a permanent service yet. That means
 at the moment you've got to use RealPlayer, which I think
 intentionally disables streaming to hard disc in a feeble attempt at
 DRM. I guess you could intercept the audio on its way to the
 soundcard somehow.  
 That's what vsound does:
http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/
(NOTE: This URL was obtained with a quick google search and I do not
guarantee its reliability.)
It's been a long time since I used vsound but it used to work pretty
well back then.
Hope this helps,
S.M.