icecream - Online in the Cloud

PROGRAM:

NAME

icecream - download icecast and shoutcast streams, redirecting all fetched content to
stdout and/or to disk at the same time

SYNOPSIS

icecream [OPTIONS] URL [URL..]

DESCRIPTION

icecream is a lightweight, non-interactive, stream download utility. It connects to
icecast and shoutcast servers or direct stream URLs, and redirects all fetched content to
stdout and/or to media files on your disk.

Listen to the stream piping the output to a stdin-capable media player. Save the stream
to a named file or split it into different tracks. It is possible to redirect the stream
and save it to disk at the same time.

icecream is able to parse pls and m3u playlists, and to download mp3 and ogg direct stream
URLs. If the stream is anonymous it will be saved as 'stream-time.mp3', where time is
actual timestamp.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Print a help message describing all options

-q, --quiet
Turn off output

-v, --verbose
Be verbose

-t, --tracks
Split stream into tracks (if possible)

--name=NAME
Save the stream to file specified by NAME. Format codes starting with "%" will be
replaced. See the date command for valid format codes.

--stop=N[units]
Stop downloading the stream after N kb/mb/min/songs

--user-agent=AGENT
Set user-agent header to AGENT

--stdout
Output stream to stdout (implies -q)

--sync Turn syncing on, required for some mpeg players that read from stdin

--debug Turn on debugging outputs

EXAMPLES

Streaming to mpg123
icecream --stdout http://radio.com/playlist.pls | mpg123 -

Split stream into different tracks
icecream -t http://metal.org/radio.pls

Split stream into tracks and play with vlc at the same time
icecream -t --stdout http://streaming.com/playlist.pls | vlc file:/dev/stdin

Prepare a 74 minute CD
icecream -t --stop 74min http://trace.net/playlist.m3u

Use a filename with today's date as output
icecream -q --name 'radio_%Y_%m_%d' --stop 60min http://radio.com/playlist.pls

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