Comments on: Ripping NPR to MP3 for an iPod

By: JLed

JLed — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:08:11 +0000

Here is a way to add a date to the end of your file using just the batch program.

Put this bit of code at the very top of your batch file:

set year=%date:~-4,10%
set day=%date:~-10,-8%
set month=%date:~-7,-5%
set datefile=%year%-%month%-%day%

Then, when you get to the portion of the batch file where you enter the path and name of the file you are creating just add %datefile% before the file extension.

Example: D:\Ipod\NPR\AllThingsConsidered_%datefile%.mp3

Then your file will be named like AllThingsConsidered_10052009.mp3 whenever it records.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:49:09 +0000

@Susan

http://www.npr.org/templates/xanadu/xplayer.php?t=1&id=

get the from that page and use this:
http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/

By: Jack Carol

Jack Carol — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:27:44 +0000

This what i looking for. Thank for the info.

By: Mayank

Mayank — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:39:15 +0000

Open the *.pls file and you should find a link like this
{example of kqedradio.pls}
[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://kqedsc01.streamguys.us/listen.pls
after that you can use commands like this
streamripper.exe http://kqedsc01.streamguys.us/listen.pls -a C:\Temp\try\try2.mp3 -s -l 270

Thanks for the great help Alex!!

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:10:52 +0000

Thank you! Worked with just a little effort on my part. Thanks also to Andy (12-1-2005): The “renTS” program you recommended works great.

Here is a sample batch file for anyone just getting started (what appears as the first two lines is actually a single line of the batch file, it’s just long):
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c:\NPR_Streams\streamripper\streamripper.exe http://wksu1.streamguys.com:8020/ -a c:\NPR_Streams\Programs\CarTalk.mp3 -s -l 3700 -o always -d c:\NPR_Streams\temp\CarTalk\

del c:\NPR_Streams\Programs\*.cue

del c:\NPR_Streams\temp\CarTalk\*.* /s /q

c:\npr_streams\rents\rents.exe /f=c:\NPR_Streams\Programs\CarTalk.mp3 /d=yyyy-mm-dd

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By: Tansu

Tansu — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:13:19 +0000

Worked for me..
Great work, I appreciate your effort in putting this together.

By: Satish

Satish — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:15:52 +0000

Hi All,
The Streamer is not stoping after ripping the stream. Its sort of in a loop. Basically after downloading the file its downloading again and again without Stop.

At the bottom there are two links I’m interested in from All India Radio. Another thing I notice is that these (links) are already contains complete Mp3 which I can download the whole MP3 by right click and so I guess there may not be of streamer at all.
Can you please fix this BAT for me.
C:\tmp\pod\streamripper-win32-1.61.7\streamripper.exe http://www.newsonair.com/listennews/HindiNews.mp3 -a C:\tmp\pod\podmp3\name-of-the-show.mp3 -s -l 3000 -o
del C:\tmp\pod\podmp3*.cue

[link1—>www.newsonair.com](http://www.newsonair.com/listennews/HindiNews.mp3)
[link2—>www.newsonair.com](http://www.newsonair.com/listen_news/English_News.mp3)

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:59:17 +0000

Very cool!

Now what I really want to do is download an archived NPR stream as an .mp3… for example: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1838668

I’m wondering if anyone has tried to do this?

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:28:11 +0000

I’m tryng to rip “This American Life” using the command line below using a length of 10 just to test, but it doesn’t write out a file. I’m using XP. Any idea what’s wrong?

C:\Program Files\Streamripper\streamripper-win32-1.61.24>streamripper.exe http:/
/wbez-tal.streamguys.us/content/7.mp3 -a C:\temp\7.mp3 -s -l 10

By: Vianney Kang

Vianney Kang — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:47:33 +0000

Alex or others,

I think I am almost there in getting this script to work, but I am one problem: the streaming starts when I want it to, but it doesn’t seem to end–even though I have indicated the time in secs in the script. Please help. vianneyk@yahoo.com