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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• streamripper

Projektgeschichte

The official Streamripper site says the project started in early 2000 as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcast title-streaming. The SourceForge project page lists the project as registered on 2000-05-27, and its maintained code browser shows later SourceForge-hosted code history, including a 2009 initial project import into the web code view.

Streamripper grew around the late-1990s and early-2000s Internet-radio culture in which users listened to Shoutcast-compatible stations from desktop players. Its homepage described it as GPL software for recording streaming MP3 to disk, and its documentation covered both console usage and a Winamp plugin.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The package became the standard small Unix tool for a niche job: unattended recording of Internet radio streams with automatic track boundaries. The supplied package-manager facts show it packaged by Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, and Ubuntu, reflecting long-tail maintenance even after upstream activity slowed.

The SourceForge project page still exposes files, reviews, tickets, discussion, and a code tab, which is typical of older projects that stayed useful because distributions kept carrying them.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is `streamripper URL`, with options to choose a destination directory, record a single large file, avoid overwriting existing tracks, or run a local relay while recording. The bundled manual text says Streamripper records Shoutcast and Icecast compatible streams in native formats including MP3, NSV, AAC, and Ogg.

Package users care about it less as a modern streaming product and more as a durable command-line utility from the Winamp/Shoutcast era that still solves batch capture and stream-splitting jobs without a GUI.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Streamripper is package-manager archaeology in useful form: a SourceForge-era GPL C program, CVS/Git-hosted history, Winamp plugin heritage, and distro packaging that outlived the original desktop-radio boom.

It is also a good example of why package indexes keep older media tools around: the protocol niche is old, but the CLI behavior is stable, scriptable, and hard to replace with web-first streaming apps.

Zeitleiste

• 2000: Project began, according to the official About page, as a Shoutcast title-streaming track splitter.
• 2000-05-27: SourceForge project registration date.
• 2007: Version 1.62.0 added broader Unicode and character-set transcoding support, according to the homepage news.
• 2008: Version 1.63.0 added stored settings, a standalone Windows GUI path, and experimental silence detection, according to homepage news.
• 2009: SourceForge code browser shows an initial project import in the web code view.
• 2015: SourceForge project activity shows later code updates on the hosted code tree.

Related projects

• Shoutcast and Icecast are the streaming ecosystems Streamripper was built around.
• Winamp, Streamripper32, StreamripperX, and other front ends listed by the official site show its desktop-player and GUI ecosystem.

Quellen

• https://sourceforge.net/p/streamripper/code/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/streamripper/
• https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
• https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/about.php
• https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/cvs.php
• source_facts.package-manager