The BBC has a heap of stuff available on their website as part of the Beethoven Experience, but I found my copy of RealPlayer had expired. I’d rather dump the data to disk and listen to it later (on my iPod, probably).
But, the only ways I could find to do this didn’t work with the software I had. Specifically:
mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/pizarro/sonata01.rm
fails, as does using VLC. I’m downloading newer versions of both of these, but I’m not that hopeful.
Mplayer seems to not want to access network protocols, VLC cannot decode. Nor can it just dump to disk, without interpreting the data.
what a coincidence, i found your blog in relation to something completely different, but i was also looking at the bbc beethoven week the other day. i guess WireTap is an option, but it means listening to it. no bad thing!
3 days, 21 hours after the fact.
I actually fixed the problem I was having: it’s detailed in this post.
I just needed a newer version of mplayer than the one that came with MacOSX.
I’ve now got most of the Sonata Cycle on my iPod, and they are great! It took me exactly Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight” to get to work today.
4 days, 10 hours after the fact.