Comments on: Ripping NPR to MP3 for an iPod

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

By: j37s

j37s — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:55:12 +0000

Hi. somebody was wanting the “scheduled tasks” entry for windows XP to run streamripper automatically.

the following example works for me, although first you specify the path to the ‘cmd.exe’ program alone (as the commond to run in the ‘add scheduled task’ wizard), then later edit the task’s ‘Run:’ line to contain the following (all on one line — and notice the double quote chars after the /k and at the end of the line). this will leave a cmd window open so you can see if there were any problems with the stream.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k “C:\stream\streamripper http://wxpnsc96.streamguys.com:80/ -l 7200 -d /stream/echoes -a %d”

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:00:06 +0000

I had the same problem with -l as Rich did above. I set it to run for 7200 seconds and it recorded for about 7 minutes. Any clues?