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[jballi]

Most people I know wouldn't be caught dead without a DVR that can pause, rewind, and fast forward live broadcasts. You would think that something like this should be readily available for streaming radio stations.

I did a little research. Besides yourself, I found very few people asking the question. OK, I didn't look that hard. Here are a couple of posts I found.

http://forums.winamp...ad.php?t=279731
http://answers.yahoo...04120654AAgVZrf
As you can see, there was no joy for these queries.

There are several free programs that can record live radio broadcasts -- Radio? Sure!, Screamer Radio, and Spider Player, just to name a few -- but I couldn't find any freebie that can pause and rewind live stuff.

I haven't tried it myself, but WM Recorder (~$50 USD) has a feature where you can preview recording streams. In the preview window you can pause, rewind, and fast forward. It's not the same thing as a live pause/rewind/fast forward but it's pretty close. The demo I've seen is for recording video but they claim to be able to record audio streams so I assume the preview window will work on streaming radio stations as well. Like I said, I haven't tried it myself.

Although I haven't figured out how you would do it, you could try to write a solution yourself. The BASS audio library can record audio streams and playback anything. Seamlessly merging the two is the trick.

Them be my thoughts. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Good luck!

[jballi]

Cool. 8) Thanks for the tip. VLC has hundreds of features that most people don't know about. It makes sense that the program has the ability to rewind a live stream.

I did a little checking. The default buffer appears to be 300 seconds (5 minutes). I imagine you could bump the buffer to 15 to 20 minutes (or more) without any problems.

[goozer321]

Hi

 

I cam e across this post looking for a solution and couldn't find one for a while, so thought I'd post in case anyone else is looking too.

 

Not a perfect solution, but TuneIn on Android is a radio player that allows pausing of internet radio.

[garry]

tried streaming radio xy.PLS , works with =

VLC 2.2.0-git weatherwax

but when I install latest VLC not works

 

this works :

http://nightlies.videolan.org/

 

 

used buttons : Normal-speed , Fast , <Jump, PLS-Continue

;....  works with XP 32-bit und AHK_L
;....  needs vlc.exe / ActiveX

;--     for XP 32--bit version 2.2.0-git weatherwax 
;.....  http://nightlies.videolan.org/                                 ;--
;====================================================================================================
;.....

Gui,2:Add,ActiveX,   x%xv%  y%yv%   w%wv%  h%hv% vVlcx, VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2
;.....