Streamripper is a stand-alone client, or

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plugin, that records

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streams in the

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formats, programmed by Jon Clegg and maintained by Gregory Sharp. Streamripper was started in early 2000 as a way to separate tracks via SHOUTcast's title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to "hint" at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing an

decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation. Streamripper is now part of the

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standard distribution, mentioned in the Linux MP3 HOWTO, and can be compiled on many platforms, including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, BeOS and OS/2. This is consistent with the fact that

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was a constant consideration during development. Unlike

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networks which require the user to know in advance what they wish to download, Streamripper records entire batches of audio files in the sequence of play. Streamripper can also host a local

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on a user specified port so that a user can listen to the stream while the recording is in progress.

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