ICECREAM   (1) manpage
ICECREAM
1
2003-09-27
0.8
User Contributed Perl Documentation
  • 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,
      Print a help message describing all options
      "-q,
      Turn off output
      "-v,
      Be verbose
      "-s,
      Output stream to stdout (implies -q)
      "-t,
      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
      icecream -s http://radio.com/playlist.pls | mpg123 -
      "Split
      icecream -t http://metal.org/radio.pls
      "Prepare
      icecream -t --stop 74min http://trance.net/playlist.m3u
  • BUGS
      You are welcome to send bug reports about icecream to our mailing list. Feel free to visit http://icecream.sourceforge.net
  • AUTHOR
      Written by Gil Megidish <gmegidis@ort.org.il>
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