Ripping from the radio: II
p2pnet.net News:- Almost exactly a year ago p2pnet reported on Greg Ratajik’s StationRipper, an application designed to get you a list of available Shoutcast stations you could record, “creating a single mp3 file for each song the station plays”.
“It’ll also allow you to record up to 300 streams at one time while its ‘Memory Recording’ tracks the songs you download, copying the final song file to your music library,” we raved at the time.
“If that song gets re-recorded in the future, it’ll skip it so if you end up deleting it, it won’t record, ‘bloating your collection with music you don’t want’. You can schedule it to allow and disallow recordings for off hours, not to speak of telling it to re-launch rips of up to 100 of the last stations you’ve recorded with a single mouse click.”
In short, it’s a kind of p2p alternative. So naturally you’d think the Big Music cartel, which doesn’t like anyone listening to anything it doesn’t have a large piece of, would have been all over Ratajik. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
There’s now a free StationRipper with a two broadcast recording limitation. The full version is $15.
“Things have been going very well – lots of users in Denmark, France, and German (about 50% there, 45% US right now),” Ratajik tells sp2pnet.
“I had about 300,000 downloads last month, so the user base is going up. A lot of people I talk to about the software find it’s a great alternative to p2p.”
The latest rev records Shoutcast audio and video streams, and Podcasts, records up to 600 stations at one time, and a lot of other things.
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See:-
p2p alternative – Ripping from the radio, p2pnet, April 21, 2004
April 14th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
I don’t see how this could ever replace free file sharring! XD haha
The idea of free file sharring, will always exist and will always advance with the technology, to be a step ahead of big music! And when ever they catch up, P2P software will advance!
April 14th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
If there are pieces of the song with talk in it, then you wind up with songs that need pulled again… Then there’s if it doesn’t catch the name or a break in a song you wind up with tracks joined into one mp3… I ran it for a few days and then wound up deleting all the tracks it’d saved in frustration with the number of screwed up mp3’s.
When I get back on a broadband line I’ll just stick to indy music and the few artists who release their work to the public… lol
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_
April 14th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
…then what?
April 15th, 2005 at 1:52 am
Get Winamp & the StreamRipper plug-in, no song screwups.
Also, try the free MediaRecorder program. U can set it like a VCR.
Great programs, both of them.
April 16th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
http://streamripperx.sourceforge.net/
April 18th, 2005 at 10:02 pm
It uses streamripper, so it’ll do the same…
May 29th, 2005 at 4:03 am
They can’t. They’ve already ‘negotiated’ a rights agreement and as long as those fees are paid, the streams will continue.
October 18th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Just noticed this blog while searchin on the net. And have to tell you that by far the best radio streaming utility is Radiotracker. Just google it