# Install streamripper with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix Separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming. Version 1.64.6 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install streamripper. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:streamripper ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install streamripper ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install streamripper ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: audio/streamripper/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install streamripper ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: streamripper from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#streamripper ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/st/streamripper/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:streamripper - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.64.6 - **Source summary:** Separate tracks via Shoutcasts title-streaming - **Homepage:** - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - streamripper (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 1.64.6 ## Project history and usage Streamripper is a command-line and plugin-era Internet-radio recorder for Shoutcast and Icecast-style streams, best known for splitting continuous MP3 streams into separate track files using stream metadata. ### Project history 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. ### Adoption history 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. ### How it is used 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. ### Why package nerds care 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. ### Timeline - 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. ### Sources - - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - streamripper - 1.64.6-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: streamripper from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | download online streams into audio files | https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ - Nix - streamripper: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/st/streamripper/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - streamripper - 1.64.6-1build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: streamripper from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | download online streams into audio files - MacPorts - streamripper: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: audio/streamripper/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/streamripper.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/streamripper.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph