icecream is a non-interactive stream download utility. It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers and redirects all fetched content to an stdin-capable player or to media files on your disk. With an option turned on, it can save the stream into different files, each representing the played track. It is also possible to tee the input to both disk and stdout.
NAME
icecream - listen to, or download icecast streams
SYNOPSIS
icecream [OPTIONS] URL [URL..]
DESCRIPTION
icecream is a non-interactive stream download utility. It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers and redirects all fetched content to an stdin-capable player or to media files on your disk. With an option turned on, it can save the stream into different files, each representing the played track. It is also possible to tee the input to both disk and stdout.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Print a help message describing all options
-q, --quiet
Turn off output
-v, --verbose
Be verbose
-s, --stdout
Output stream to stdout (implies -q)
-t, --tracks
Split stream into tracks (if possible)
--stop=N[units]
Stop stream after N min(minutes), songs or KB/MB transferred
--debug
Turn on debugging outputs
--useragent=AGENT
Set useragent header to AGENT
EXAMPLES
Streaming to mpg123
icecream -s http://radio.com/playlist.pls | mpg123 -
Split stream into different tracks
icecream -t http://metal.org/radio.pls
Prepare a 74 minute CD
icecream -t --stop 74min http://trance.net/playlist.m3u