Graceful Exits

Following user requests, I’ve uploaded a new version of rmrip which takes a command-line argument specifying your configuration file:
./rmrip.py foo.conf

As the user himself implied, this has the added bonus of making it more crontab-friendly e.g. you can have a crontab entry saying:
0 2 * * 2 $HOME/rmrip/rmrip.py tuesday.conf

You can download rmrip as before from http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/files/code/rmrip.tgz. [...]

It’s one of the worst-kept tech secrets in the world, but Real Audio streams can be downloaded using software such as mplayer and then converted to MP3 format with lame. Both of these are available in Ubuntu using the non-Ubuntu package manager Automatix. The possibility of doing this conversion implies that, although the BBC offer [...]