On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote: >> So I got a new Pocket PC this weekend (yes, you read that >> right, sorry, don't like the Palms on offer currently > > Did you try the Treos? I really can't stand a "start bar" in > a palm. Slows me down. But to each his own. Understand. My price point is lower, unfortunately. Around $300. And at that price point it's Tungstens and Zires. And all of them either have poor displays (visually) or that screen whine problem. Like you said, it's a personal preference thing and beside the point. >> and I can at least install software on it via Windows on >> VMWare). > > Which means you're running Windows, no difference. > > Again, to each his own, but I like a device I have total > control over under Linux. I've been using a Treo 600 for > over a year, a Kyocera 7135 for 2 years before that and a > Kyocerta 6035 2 years before that (going back to early 2001). Which really is beside the point and I probably shouldn't have mentioned it so this didn't turn into a "why aren't you using Linux and a Palm" issue. >> One of the main things I wanted to do with it is get >> Audible.com again and listen to All Things Considered from >> NPR on the way home like I used to. Now I find out they not >> only don't have an agreement with Audible any longer >> where I can pay them for this service, but now they are >> podcasting, but not the whole show. *sigh* >> So what to do.... My thinking is to capture the stream from >> local affiliate and time shift until I leave work. >> But how do I do this (I know how to use dump with mplayer >> for this) without getting one gigantic file? Anyone have >> any experience with this? > > No, but mplayer can split files IIRC. That's what I want to know. How do I take a stream and have it split the pieces of the real audio stream as they come in? It's taking them in as a playlist and dumping them into one big mp3 file. And that file is too unweildy for using with the MP3 player on my device, I fear. Besides, I don't want to have to copy that whole file at once. Or I'd like to be able to encode manually at a lower bitrate. Right now I'm using the command... /usr/bin/mplayer -playlist http://<servername>/feed.pls -dumpaudio -dumpfile atc.mp3 Preston