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title: "I'm finally timeshifting radio again"
date: 2002-09-20T17:17:25-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/09/20/ooobhd/
author: Les Orchard
---

# I'm finally timeshifting radio again

Today's bundle of little discoveries:
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<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.pth.com/DSBRTuner/">DSBRTuner</a> has been updated to support <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AppleScript">AppleScript</a> since last I downloaded it.
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.pth.com/DSBRTuner/">DSBRTuner</a> has been updated to record to MP3 on disk.
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacOSX">MacOSX</a> has a command called <code>osascript</code> with which you can launch <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AppleScript">AppleScripts</a> (among other things) from a shell.
</li>
<li> Like <code>perl</code>, <code>osascript</code> has an option <code>-e</code> to run a one-liner from the shell.
</li>
</ul>
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Given these discoveries, I was able to cobble together a quick pair of scripts with which to schedule recording radio broadcasts to MP3 via cron.
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Wow.  Another little project that became, all of a sudden, so much easier than I thought.  I love Unix and OS X.  Before this, I'd been looking high and low for all the parts:  a scheduler, a sound recorder, an app controller, etc &amp; so forth.  Given the source code to DSBRTuner, I was almost about to hack some solutions into it, but I'd never gotten the time.
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Now, I can happily record and listen to my favorite late Sunday night radio show during the week again!
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Oh yeah, and the ugly scripts:
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1) dsbr_start_recording
<pre>#!/bin/sh
FREQ=$1
MP3_FN="$2-`date "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"`.mp3"
OSA=/usr/bin/osascript
TELL='tell application "DSBRTUNER" to'

open /Applications/DSBRTuner.app
$OSA -e "$TELL set frequency to $FREQ"
$OSA -e "$TELL record to file "$MP3_FN""</pre>
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2) dsbr_stop_recording
<pre>#!/bin/sh
OSA=/usr/bin/osascript
TELL='tell application "DSBRTUNER" to'

open /Applications/DSBRTuner.app
$OSA -e "$TELL stop recording"
$OSA -e "$TELL quit"</pre>
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                <a href="#comment-221089849" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-09-20T19:33:08">2002-09-20T19:33:08</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Damnation, that's cool as all hell.  As you said, UNIX and OS X rock.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221089851" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-09-20T19:52:25">2002-09-20T19:52:25</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Heh, One more example of poking our computers into everyday life again. This is awesome.</div>
            
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