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I'm running Windows Vista and I have a program called Streamripper32 which takes radio streams and separates the songs into separate individual tracks and records them to a folder.

What I want to do is use the Task Scheduler to start and run that program on a schedule. I've succeeded to make the app open on schedule, but I can't figure out how to make it start ripping.

Task Scheduler has an option to add arguments (in the "actions" tab). I've tried to add: start, startrip, and run in that box, and beyond that I don't know what else to try.

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I doubt you'll succeed if you continue using Task Manager. Task Scheduler OTOH might help... ;) (And yeah, provide more details.) – Karan Feb 23 at 19:35
To closevoters: The other question is closed, and haven't received any answers. This one has a possible answer. What's the meaning of linking to a (closed) post which will not lead anywhere? – TFM Feb 25 at 7:37
@TFM: If your original question is closed, aren't you supposed to edit and improve it and flag for reopening, instead of posting a duplicate? – Karan Feb 25 at 22:05
@Karan: It definitely is the standard practice. However, I'm not sure if an answer can be moved, since this question has one, the other doesn't. Closing the other question as a duplicate of this one might also help. – TFM Feb 26 at 5:11
@TFM now that this one is fleshed out & has an answer - it'll remain open. Close votes age out as well, so it should be fine :) – Sathya♦ Feb 26 at 6:09
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You want to research the command line parameters associated with the application in question. Modify whatever command you've got in Task Scheduler to look more like the following:

ConsoleWin32 http://scastsrv2.shoutcast.com:8038/ -d K:\Streamrips\ -r 8008 -q -u FreeAmp/2.x

I would write out the actual command line you need, but there's no way that I can know what parameters you're going to actually need.

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