converting audio streams

[Don Russell]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Don Russell wrote:
>   
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>     
>>> Don Russell wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I'm looking for an app to convert an audio stream from one format (i.e.
>>>> media player/flash/etc) to wav....
>>>>
>>>> I can find many that convert files.... but I want to convert a
>>>> continuous stream and produce the equivalent stream in a different
>>>> format...
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> What kind of streams? I use streamripper and it works really well, but
>>> I'm not sure that's what you are looking for.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks... what I'm actually looking into is being able to "tune in" a
>> local radio station via URL.... many stations already provide their
>> audio this way, but one station in particular seem to only have a web
>> interface and require something like mediaplayer etc.
>>
>> The station web site is http://www.101kgb.com (San Diego California USA)
>>
>> The URL to get the streaming audio is:
>>    http://www.101kgb.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
>>
>> Which displays a nice little window with an ad, a few seconds later the
>> url changes to:
>>    http://www.101kgb.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html?refreshed=yes
>>
>> What I'd like to try is writing some code for a device I have (ref
>> http://slimdevices.com) that can nicely handle wav streams.... I thought
>> if I could write some code to act as an http client as above, and
>> produce a wav stream, then my "slimdevice" could play that station too.
>>
>> Right now, I've just started the investigative process... seems like a
>> fun project, which might (should) have more widespread use than a single
>> radio station too.
>>
>>
>>     
> Hmm, I wonder what that looks like under a wget?
>   

hmmm, very interesting.... it uses JavaScript to change streams..... 
this may be less work that I anticipated.... :-)