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NAME

       icecream - download icecast and shoutcast streams, redirecting all
       fetched content to stdout and/or to disk at the same time

SYNOPSIS

       icecream [OPTIONS] URL [URL..]

DESCRIPTION

       icecream is a lightweight, non-interactive, stream download utility.
       It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers or direct stream URLs, and
       redirects all fetched content to stdout and/or to media files on your
       disk.

       Listen to the stream piping the output to a stdin-capable media player.
       Save the stream to a named file or split it into different tracks.  It
       is possible to redirect the stream and save it to disk at the same
       time.

       icecream is able to parse pls and m3u playlists, and to download mp3
       and ogg direct stream URLs. If the stream is anonymous it will be saved
       as ’stream-time.mp3’, where time is actual timestamp.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
               Print a help message describing all options

       -q, --quiet
               Turn off output

       -v, --verbose
               Be verbose

       -t, --tracks
               Split stream into tracks (if possible)

       --name=NAME
               Save the stream to file specified by NAME. Format codes
               starting with "%" will be replaced. See the date command for
               valid format codes.

       --stop=N[units]
               Stop downloading the stream after N kb/mb/min/songs

       --user-agent=AGENT
               Set user-agent header to AGENT

       --stdout
               Output stream to stdout (implies -q)

       --sync  Turn syncing on, required for some mpeg players that read from
               stdin

       --debug Turn on debugging outputs

EXAMPLES

       Streaming to mpg123
               icecream --stdout http://radio.com/playlist.pls | mpg123 -

       Split stream into different tracks
               icecream -t http://metal.org/radio.pls

       Split stream into tracks and play with vlc at the same time
               icecream -t --stdout http://streaming.com/playlist.pls | vlc
               file:/dev/stdin

       Prepare a 74 minute CD
               icecream -t --stop 74min http://trace.net/playlist.m3u

       Use a filename with today’s date as output
               icecream -q --name ’radio_%Y_%m_%d’ --stop 60min
               http://radio.com/playlist.pls

BUGS

       You are welcome to send bug reports about icecream to our mailing list.
       Feel free to visit http://icecream.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       Written by Gil Megidish <gil at megidish.net>