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enhancement: "stop" conversion

The easiest method to record a stream seems to be using the "Convert..." menu.
Unfortunately while converting the stream, there's only "Pause" and "Abort", but no "Stop".
Hitting "Abort" will delete the file being created, while pause just pauses.
One trick is to use "Pause", then copy the file using Windows Explorer, then use "Abort". So the file won't be deleted.
It all would be much easier if there were a "Stop" button that just stops conversion...

Of course if conversion would stop automatically if the metadata (like title) changes, that would be even better.
Best would be if conversion continues with a new file after a change of metadata (like title).

Re: enhancement: "stop" conversion

Reply #2 –
Quote from: uwindl on
Hitting "Abort" will delete the file being created
There is option "Leave partial files for aborted or failed conversions" in "Other" section of Converter's settings.

Re: enhancement: "stop" conversion

Reply #3 –
Quote from: sveakul on
Streamripper
Strimripper is good, but it only supports aac, vorbis, mp3. It cannot rip streams in opus, flac and it cannot rip HLS streams.

Re: enhancement: "stop" conversion

Reply #4 –
True, but what it supports it doesn't re-encode when saving, while ALL stream formats would be re-encoded using  Foobar's native convert system (unless I've missed another option like the one you pointed out to uwindl).  The only player I know that can rip raw FLAC and Opus radio streams is the modest XMPlay (AIMP supports but must re-encode those formats).  The best of all possible worlds would be a Foobar plugin that would rip any stream without re-encoding, using separate files per track metadata when supplied by the source.
 

Re: enhancement: "stop" conversion

Reply #5 –
ffmpeg can save everything without re-encoding and can be used with foo_run too, although it cannot split files when recording.