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04 March 2006

Warning! It would probably be illegal to use this with radio MeCha, so... don't do it, ok?

post by: Capn at: 21:14 | 13 comments

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posted by Capn 04 March | 21:14

no mac version?

posted by amberglow 04 March | 21:15

Amber, you can use the free Soundflower to route sound to a recorder app (like Audacity).

posted by AlexReynolds 04 March | 21:25

i'm too lazy to use 2 diff programs--there's no 1-program solution? : >

posted by amberglow 04 March | 21:31

Okay, that's handy. I thought I was going to have to whip up something to do this myself.

So, be DJing people! Oh, yeah, let me hear your music! (But it's going to be low quality, huh?)

posted by kmellis 04 March | 21:35

Oh sure, but that way's free. You could use Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Pro.

posted by AlexReynolds 04 March | 21:48

i've been using streamtuner (which integrates streamripper for recording) on my linux box. works great!

posted by quonsar 04 March | 22:14

I've been using On Line Radio Tuner. It's free and straight forward. Still in Beta though. Would like to hear about other's experience with Station Ripper. I gave it a look-see and found it confusing. But that might just be me.

The big thing I've found with these rippers is the timing between tracts. That is, how the ripper handles closing one track's file before another track starts. Sometimes, I get a little off the beginning and a bit tagged on the end of a track.

posted by jelly 04 March | 22:34

But aren't you recording a copy of a copy, and is there any difference in the sound quality? (no, really)

posted by yhbc 04 March | 23:42

You are re-encoding something that's already been re-encoded for broadcast. There can be a noticable sound difference depending on your settings.

posted by AlexReynolds 04 March | 23:51

Here's a track I recorded with On Line Radio Tuner.

posted by jelly 05 March | 00:10

hey, thanks alex, that soundflower's doing the trick. very cool.

posted by Hellbient 05 March | 15:21

Isn't it? I love Cycling '74... Next to Ableton they have the best OS X audio programmers out there...

posted by AlexReynolds 05 March | 17:05

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