From: Rob Eastwood <rob.eastwood8@...>
Date: 2010-07-13T20:32:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Listen to streaming radio with ruby?

Nick Hird wrote:
> Does anyone have any information they can share with me on reading an 
> audio stream with ruby? I am teaching myself ruby and they say to find a 
> project and build it, so here i am. I listen to a lot of online radio and i 
> thought i would try and listen to an audio stream from ruby, if its possible.
> Thanks!
> ~Nick

Hi Nick, a very simplistic maybe => invoke a system command to run VLC, 
passing it the url of the radio stream; like:

system "vlc http://radio1.internode.on.net:8000/117  vlc://quit ;"

rob
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