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Today's bundle of little discoveries:

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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 & 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
    #!/bin/sh\nFREQ=$1\nMP3_FN=\"$2-`date \"+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S\"`.mp3\"\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'
    2. \n
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open /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\n$OSA -e \"$TELL set frequency to $FREQ\"\n$OSA -e \"$TELL record to file \"$MP3_FN\"\"

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  1. dsbr_stop_recording
    #!/bin/sh\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'
    2. \n
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open /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\n$OSA -e \"$TELL stop recording\"\n$OSA -e \"$TELL quit\"

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shortname=ooobhd

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Archived Comments

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\n\n\n", "body": "Today's bundle of little discoveries:\r\n

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\r\nGiven these discoveries, I was able to cobble together a quick pair of scripts with which to schedule recording radio broadcasts to MP3 via cron.\r\n

\r\nWow. 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 & 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.\r\n

\r\nNow, I can happily record and listen to my favorite late Sunday night radio show during the week again!\r\n

\r\nOh yeah, and the ugly scripts:\r\n

\r\n1) dsbr_start_recording\r\n
#!/bin/sh\r\nFREQ=$1\r\nMP3_FN=\"$2-`date \"+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S\"`.mp3\"\r\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\r\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'\r\n\r\nopen /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\r\n$OSA -e \"$TELL set frequency to $FREQ\"\r\n$OSA -e \"$TELL record to file \"$MP3_FN\"\"
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\r\n2) dsbr_stop_recording\r\n
#!/bin/sh\r\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\r\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'\r\n\r\nopen /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\r\n$OSA -e \"$TELL stop recording\"\r\n$OSA -e \"$TELL quit\"
\r\n\r\nshortname=ooobhd\r\n\r\n
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\r\n ", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2002", "path": "2002/09/20/ooobhd", "summary": "Today's bundle of little discoveries:\n\n DSBRTuner has been updated to support AppleScript since last I downloaded it.\n\n DSBRTuner has been updated to record to MP3 on disk.\n\n MacOSX has a command called osascript with which you can launch AppleScripts (among other things) from a shell.\n\n Like perl, osascript has an option -e to run a one-liner from the shell.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiven these discoveries, I was able to cobble together a quick pair of scripts with which to schedule recording radio broadcasts to MP3 via cron.\nWow. 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 & 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.\nNow, I can happily record and listen to my favorite late Sunday night radio show during the week again!\nOh yeah, and the ugly scripts:\n\ndsbr_start_recording#!/bin/sh\nFREQ=$1\nMP3_FN=\"$2-`date \"+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S\"`.mp3\"\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'\n\nopen /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\n$OSA -e \"$TELL set frequency to $FREQ\"\n$OSA -e \"$TELL record to file \"$MP3_FN\"\"\n\ndsbr_stop_recording#!/bin/sh\nOSA=/usr/bin/osascript\nTELL='tell application \"DSBRTUNER\" to'\n\nopen /Applications/DSBRTuner.app\n$OSA -e \"$TELL stop recording\"\n$OSA -e \"$TELL quit\"", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2002/09/20/ooobhc", "prevPostTitle": "Personal contact data aggregators?", "nextPostPath": "2002/09/20/ooobhf", "nextPostTitle": "The line between man and machine" }