Introduction

Banshee Streamrecorder is an extension (formerly called plugin) to the Banshee Music Player. It uses the Gstreamer library to capture internet radio streams that are being played with the Banshee Music Player.

Details

Installation has so far only been tested in Ubuntu Karmic, but the source should build in any mono/c# environment and run under any system fulfilling the following prequisites.

As a prequisite for successful installation and operation

• the Banshee Music Player must be installed (should be 1.5.1 or higher)
• the following programs must be installed:
1. streamripper (>1.64)
2. mplayer (tested with no-gui version)

For successful building the following packages might be needed additionally:

• mono-gmcs
• build-essential
• intltool

Installation

Make sure the Banshee Music Player is not running during installation. Even though there should be no problems you can never be sure.

Ubuntu Karmic

1. Download the ubuntu package
2. Open the package in nautilus (using gdebi-gtk)
3. Install

Other systems

1. Download the tar.gz archive
2. Unpack
3. type the following:
• For system wide installation: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install
• For user-extension installation only: ./configure --enable-user-extension && make && make install

After Installation

If you start the Banshee Music Player after installation, you should see a red record button in your toolbar as well as a "Streamrecorder" submenu in the tools section. Follow the UserGuide for how to use Banshee Streamrecorder.

Before the Streamrecoder is ready to use you should first configure it and set the directory for recorded streams. See the UserGuide for further information on that.

If there is any trouble with the installation, run banshee-1 from a terminal. When recording, you should be able to see some informational messages in the terminal. If you still have trouble, start banshee-1 --debug and see if the Banshee Streamrecorder Service is successfully started and if you can see any debug messages during recording.

If you cannot find help, feel free to add an issue to this project page.