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stationripper.com — Splits up internet radio songs to single MP3 files, naming by bandname and song name. Downloads album art. Can search for songs and bands that stations have been playing. Fast connections can get thousands of songs a day...
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- stjoe86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Works pretty good - notice they now have Diggnation listed, cool
- pondster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know they say its not legal, but in this post RIAA "War Against America" im a little standoffish. If this is legit, this is totally awesome and I'll be buying the gold version immediatly!
- musikman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same as recording radio, right? or..uhh.. isn't the same as recording w/ a tivo? I mean, as long as you're not sharing it..
- en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0My question is does it leave bits and peices of other songs on the mp3? I know I used to do this kinda stuff and that would always happen. Also, most stations don't cast in cd quality.
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http://virtenu.com - samfold, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yeah but what is the quality like?
If its anything less than 192 then no thanks. - cybernetic798, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Quality is relatively crappy as expected since most stations are under 128 let alone 192. In any case, SHHHHHH if you post ***** like this then it is bound to get shut down later by those idiots.
- Eric4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree. The quality is crap. I rip my CDs in WAV format, but if you don't mind the quality, it looks pretty cool.
- cheese06, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0WTF, SPAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
- lightfantastik, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1SPAM - No digg.
Not for Mac - No digg
Otherwise, cool idea. - kyriakos, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Mac only gets cool stuff a year late :P
- Ignathius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i've never found any of these to be very reliable. they work great, sure. but there's some issues to deal with
1. finding a streaming station that streams higher than 96kbps
2. getting the entire song. they usually either start the recording early (picking up bits of the previous song) and then cut the song off short, or vice versa (starting the recording late, and picking up bits of the begening of the next song). - jrkaisersr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is ALMOST exactly like Replay Music...
http://www.applian.com/replay-music/index.php - nib0rd00h, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i test it right now with chronix radio and xtc london. works just perfect, there are no artifacts, pieces of other songs or something like that in saved mp3s. this tool ROCKS! i'm gonna buy it right now to support the authors.
- larryni, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great! Thousands of crap quality mp3s on your machine. Now where is my torrent client?
- gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0streamripper plugins!
- nib0rd00h, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3larryni, WTF are you talking about? quality is just like the ripping internet station quality is. for example, chronix radio - 128kbps, xtc london - 160kbps.
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless you're listening to a classical station, there's always going to be overlap at the start and end of every song.
- GingerDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone know of anything similar under linux?
- GingerDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'll answer my own question with : http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
- blankoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0stationripper.com really needs to hire some professional to redo his website. Mine eyes!
- bosmonster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What makes this 'legal'? Ripping from radio is just as illegal.
- 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Check here
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/index.php - blissfulignant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Also, most shoutcast stations like regular radio stations, as far as I've seen, censor their broadcasts... So forget downloading the lastest Game track, half that **** will be bleeped out!
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Legally... bwahahaha.
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http://fuh-q.com - jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What makes this 'legal'? Ripping from radio is just as illegal."
Ripping from radio is just as LEGAL as recording a cable show on your VCR, as long as it's for personal use and you don't share. - djwk1928, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This as been out for ages, atleast a year.
And, It's not legal
- http://www.AlexsWebcamWorld.com - automagically, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to do this. The big problem is that some stations use fading and overlap. Also the program can't figure out the beginning and end of songs, and cuts the wrong, even though the program says it can sense it and a station has an obvious silence between tracks. After spending days in my favorite sound editing program, I said the heck with it. I don't even listen to the stuff. Even worse, you can't just cut the end of a song over to the next mp3 that it belongs in, because it wasn't cut perfectly, and there is missing or replicated data. Enough to cause a screech. Also recently, some stations stop releasing the ID3 info. It allows Winamp somehow to see the song info, but not the ripper, despite the user agent setting. Then there was this one station, I think it purposely has buggy encrypted streams, because the outputed mp3s wouldn't play in anything except winamp.
- mesoed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Not legal... reported as inaccurate....
You want legal? Get music from independant artists that relase the songs via Creative Commons. Doesn't work for you? You can download thousands of songs a day legally by...oh. PAYING FOR THEM...
... just a thought.... - Wires, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Firstly, it is not legal. Secondly, the quality is horrid. Slowly, this service disappears under the light of P2P networks and torrents.
- DaviDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Winamp disabled the hard disc output option within the player, for shoutcast, because of legal problems.
So it is not perceived as legal, although IMO it is just as harmless as recording radio or video to a tape or cassette. - jwalk81980, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Definitley not legal. But who cares.
- nattybohman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You can download thousands of songs a day legally by...oh. PAYING FOR THEM...
... just a thought.... "
Apparently this guy does.
Personally, if I could buy songs legally for a decent price, I would. 99 cents per song is WAY too much. Especially when they include their DRM that limits what I can do with them.
I'd go for 20 - 25 cents with no drm. For now it's "allofmp3" for me. - richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2And you shall be banned from our stream...
Stream rippers are selfish bastards. They take up slots that other people could be using to listen, and they also drive up our TLH, meaning we have to pay more for licensing. - garg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Recording Radio or TV Stations is illegal?
- cbeach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an excellent tool! If you're in the office, make sure you set it up with the correct HTTP proxy. Works a treat here.
- chubbyduck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the Mac:
RadioLover has been around for YEARS-
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19547 - TheFjatKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is sorta like imesh isn't it?
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah RadioLover works the great. Integrates with iTunes radio as well, so finding your 128 bit streams is easy...
- DirtyWorker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is just as illegal as downloading the music without using the radio. And downloading without the radio you get what you want, and you get it fast.
This reminds me of the whole "I don't want it to be illegal, therefor it isn't!", grow up please. If you don't pay for it, and it's commercial music, it's illegal to download, stream, rip, rap, copy, masturbate to and sing. Americans and their laws, I laugh at thee. - josefresco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to be another person who posts a plug for StreamRipper which you can download here: http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ It works as a plugin to Winamp (Just so you now T.W.I.T. guys Leo, Patrick and Kevin, people still use Winamp ...even today! OMG You guys can keep your iTunes)
Moving on...I've been using SR for years now, it's a great product, not perfect but good and yes with a broadband connection you can nab hundreds of songs a day (until the station starts repeating content). Most stations I have ripped have been 128, and sometimes if you don't get the settings just right you'll get lead ins/outs from the songs as they change. I'm not a music snob so I really don't care, I play them in my iPod, Car, and at the office (it's about the music for me, not making sure my bit rate is higher than than my ram total like some people)- tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sure. You can rip streams to mp3 using winamp. But can you rip 20 at the same time?
- tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sure. You can rip streams to mp3 using winamp. But can you rip 20 at the same time?
- dBLiSS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What makes this 'legal'? Ripping from radio is just as illegal."
Actully, ripping from the radio is perfectly legal, just like copying a song from your friend is legal. It's all under fair use. If downloading music was illegal then the justice dept would be after a lot of people. But incase you haven't noticed, it's a civil matter, that's why people are getting sued. Unfortuntely you can be sued for perfectly legal (ie. not criminal) things. - randallb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Legality is not the issue with streamripping. The problem is that legal internet radio stations pay licensing fees, usually to an organization that gives them the right to pretty much play all the songs they want (as opposed to the per-song-played system used years ago).
Once the licensing companies learn about streamripping this is probably going to affect their licensing and possibly kill internet radio as we know. - OperatorNo9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I buddy of mine in grad school wrote of these himself (I think it was just for one station though). At first, it recorded everything. Then, he got sick of weeding through a lot of garbage. So, he wrote in filters to check for things like user ratings and band names. He ended up with a lot of music that way.
- kapowaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great! Now the RIAA will have another target to line up in their legal crosshairs.... if this has repercussions for legal net radio stations that I listen to then I'll be most annoyed.
- GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1can speak in sentence fragments. can comment as others do. needs learn better grammar skills before posted in internet.
- DCesque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was using this last year a bit. It works great except for:
1) low bit rates. Most Internet radio stations still don't exceed 128bps.
2) If you listen to dance music, you're screwed. Most house, techno, DnB stations play mixes which count as one long mp3...they don't get chopped into individual songs. - jfkintp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Can we not do advertisements, god this sucks! dumbasses!
- DrWho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, this is quite awesome. When will the RIAA shut ShoutCast down?
I haven't ripped anything yet, but WOW, just WOW! - neofactor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Nothing new at least on the Mac:
Griffen Technology's iFill: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/ifill/
RadioRecorder OpenSource: http://ng.netgate.net/~snowcat/RadioRecorder.html
StreamRipper OpenSource: http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
RadioLover: http://www.bitcartel.com/radiolover/ - VirgoanVenom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I partially agree with automagically. At first, I considered editing them to remove the overlap, however, I did get used to this.
Pardon my getting off topic, but I wish to explain why I no longer use this program. I was listening to the mp3s in my car, through a device that inserts into any mp3 player's head phone jack, connects through your cigarette lighter and lets you listen through FM. I got tired of constantly finding a good station to transmit over; also that device requires batteries, as does the mp3 player. I found it quite stupid to be using a device that can be powered 100% by the cigarette lighter, but still requires batteries, not to mention the fact that the mp3 player still needed batteries whilst connected to this mp3 player to FM converter of mine. I know there are better alternatives that function without battery power and transmit directly to your stereo, which would solve the degradation problem I was facing; however, I don't have a setup like that right now. That coupled with the fact that, even though I found a 128 bitrate source, it did not play as well through the setup in my car as it does on my pc, only because of my lame in car setup.
So, if I had a better solution to listen to mp3s in my car, then I would definitely start using StationRipper again. However, if you're just going to listen to mp3s on your pc, then I would highly recommend StationRipper. Then why don't I use StationRipper? I know music can exist outside of one's car, however when I'm on my pc, I have found that I like Pandora better. - shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I doubt this type of software will remain legal for too long. Pirate while you can, ya bunch-a cheap-skates. :P ;)
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