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I didn't get anything either, as I mentioned in the .102 thread.

  Perhaps it just sends a report to the RIAA? ?

JimN.
Can't find anything!
Can you give a example of a stream that you recorded with MC12.102?
I will try again with that.

The stream I tried (mms://wm2.xs4all.nl/streamgate46) is WMA format.
Is that a problem maybe?

Yes, that turns out to be the problem. For the time being, WMA streams can't be scheduled. Nor will RealAudio streams. MP3 streams will be the only ones that can be scheduled for now. Here's one I've been trying, but I think most ShoutCast streams should work:

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2891&file=filename.pls

JimN

I've only had success with playlist extensions in the stream address, either pls or m3u. I've had no luck with an mp3 extension.

I also see weird times with successful recordings. I've only tried things for a minute so far but I see the following. In the scheduler window a successful recording will often show divergent times, usually shorter. The actual files usually run over or may show no time at all until played. The bit rate is also odd, usually displaying a little bit higher than when actually played.

I take it this is actually saving the mp3 as it is streamed? Rather than recording the sound of the stream as it is played?

It seems as if the resulting file ends up in the My Music folder in My Documents even though I set the location to be elsewhere in Options >> File Locations >> Output File Location (ripping and recording). Is this a bug?

Is there any possibility that MC can populate the file name or tags with artist/title info sent by the station?

Park,
Were was the file saved?

I also see weird times with successful recordings. I've only tried things for a minute so far but I see the following.

Try recording for greater the 1 minute. There seems to be a quirk in that a 1 minute record time is kind of signal for the schedule play indefinitely. In any case, recording for just one minute doesn't seem to work properly, if at all. I certainly think it's something we have to change/fix.

I take it this is actually saving the mp3 as it is streamed? Rather than recording the sound of the stream as it is played?

That's correct. However, in getting wma and other streams to record, we will be implementing recording it as it played (in the background). We also plan on implementing a feature that let's you start recording when you are playing a stream.

It seems as if the resulting file ends up in the My Music folder in My Documents even though I set the location to be elsewhere in Options >> File Locations >> Output File Location (ripping and recording). Is this a bug?

Yes. Should be right in the next build.

Is there any possibility that MC can populate the file name or tags with artist/title info sent by the station?

That's a possiblity. But is seems to be of limited use if the stream is say an hour long, but only the first song title (which probably started in the middle) is used. A neat feature would be the ability to select out and save a particular song out of the recorded stream. However, I can't say whether we will actually be implementing this.

Thanks for your testing and input.

JimN

MC 12.107

10. Fixed: Scheduled MP3 streams with "~~~stream~~~.mp3" didn't record.
11. Fixed: Scheduled record streams is now placed in Output File Location instead of Music Directory.

Both work. Great.

Small bug.
I recorded 5 minutes.
The mp3 is indeed 5 minutes long.
The tag 'duration' shows 12 seconds though.

[Quoted from the Media Center 110 thread]

I tried this stream and it worked for me. It looks like it started to record but ran into some problem. Could you try it a few more times (you only need to record 1 minute) and see if the results vary, ie file size?

Has anyone else tried this or another WMA stream?

Thanks,
JimN

The same result:
I scheduled 1 munite with 'start now' option.
It created a (.wma) file 0f 5kB. There is nothing in it.