Question

What’s the best way of capturing an mp3 stream coming off of http and saving it to disk with python?

Thus far I’ve tried

target = open(target_path, 'w') conn = urllib.urlopen(stream_url) while True:     target.write(conn.read(buf_size)) 

This gives me data but its garbled or wont play in mp3 players.

Answer 1

If you’re on Windows, you might accidentally be doing CRLF conversions, corrupting the binary data. Try opening target in binary mode:

target = open(target_path, 'wb')