[How to do instruction] Radio stream recorder

[Tim Curtis]

If there's more demand for something like this I can pull an MPD based recorder off the shelf that I worked on a few years ago. It can b seamlessly integrated into the WebUI and Library. There would be the classic red "record" button. It's pretty basic compared to what @TheMetalHead put together but it could be useful for users that occasionally want to record some songs or a particular radio program to listen to later :-)

The streamed songs would be encoded as FLAC with the file naming format and tags listed below.

File name format= "Artist - Title.flac"
Genre= "Recordings"
Artist
Album= "Recordings"
Title

What u end up with over time is a big compilation album named "Recordings" containing all the recorded songs.

-Tim

Did anything ever come of this, @Tim Curtis? I see in my startup log (v8.3.3):

20250128 224918 worker: Stream recorder (available: not installed)

Does this line refer to the "MPD based recorder" you referenced in the above post, @TheMetalHead's project, or something else entirely? 

Regards,
William

Thats a really old version of moode!

Later version would show
20250130 215342 worker: Stream recorder: n/a

Yes, it refers to the recorder mentioned earlier. It was never included in any moode release because of legal barriers but I still have the code for the feature.

Try googling for "is it legal to record streaming radio" or "radio ripping" to gain an understanding of the current legal status.