[ale] Car PC's and internet radio?

[Brian Pitts]

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> I have not found a program smart enough to understand spaces between
> songs or talk.

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ has always worked well enough for me.

"Streamripper first connects to the stream in question, this happens 
over TCP (not UDP). For Shoutcast-style streams it finds the "meta data" 
or track separation data (defined by a meta-interval), and uses that as 
a marker for where the track should be separated.

The data is buffered back about 10-30 seconds. When a track has changed, 
it goes back through its buffer, decodes the mp3 data in that buffer 
then looks for a silent point of the audio. It uses that silent point as 
a place to separate the tracks."

-Brian