Ever since Pandora was forced to shut it’s doors on international listeners (Damn you DMCA), many of us have been forced to look elsewhere for our music fix. Fortunately for all the rest of us – the existing alternatives aren’t that bad at all.
After looking around, I’ve settled on last.fm to be my Internet radio service of choice. Much like Pandora, it analyses my music tastes, and plays me songs that I think it will like based on the preferences of other people who have similar tastes. Think of it like StumbleUpon – but for music.
From Internet Radio to your Hard Drive
I think any of us who grew up in the cassette era of music would recall hearing your favourite song on the radio and rushing to hit the record button so you could have a copy of it…
Well now you can do the same using thelastripper – a small free download that will rip your last.fm streams into individual mp3 tracks!
These guys have really taken it all the way with the features which now include:
- Organizes your music in directories: Artist/Album/Track/
- Downloads album cover art
- Generates playlist in M3U, SMIL, PLS
- Appends ID3v2 tags
- Supports International characters
- Support for http proxies
You can tune in to any last.fm music stations you create or tag, and if you don’t want to record the song that’s currently playing, you can also skip it until you find something you like.
Simply sensational.
Note: If you use this to rip music from the net, we of course assume you own the original music ;)
Do you like to listen to Internet Radio? Tell us why in the comments!
[tags] internet radio, pandora, mp3, last.fm [/tags]
September 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
And you can always record with Audacity, which will work with anything that emits sound. :D
September 9th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I used to listen to myfm online from myfm website. Sometimes may be because of the bandwidth is not good enough, it will hang. =P
Overall, I like to listen radio online.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Great tip.I will try it one of these days.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:00 am
It keeps me sane at work.
Pandora’s customizable thumbs up/thumbs down feature also lets me create stations I listen to for longer without having to contastantly skip/select/etc/.
I’m glad to be back in the US after Canada for the last two years, if for no other reason than having access to Pandora again!
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am
I’ve been using StationRipper to do this for a while now – it can record internet radio.
Does Last.fm AND Shoutcast and podcasts.
And it can record more than one Last.fm station at a time (great way to record lots of music!)
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
My pleasure with Internet Radio is more in discovering than in recording. Recording as an aim reminds me taking photos rather than visiting… music as a trip is nicer! Now, as for the travel agency, I stick on SHOUTcast, and the brand new TUN3R, both wide and opened!
January 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I’ve also been using stationrippe to record internet radio for a while. Not as much for Last.fm, but for shoutcast.
I like being able to find new stuff. D/L’s a LOT, and I don’t keep all of it, but I always seem to find new stuff.
And the new station-voting is spify :)
January 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Sorry, that url is http://www.stationripper.com
March 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I still listen to Pandora from anywhere in the world.
When I work outside the US, I use a Firefox add-on named “FoxyProxy” to make sure that the player is loaded through a proxy that is located in the US.
Of course you could use the proxy for all traffic, but this would sometimes be too slow. The beauty of FoxyProxy is that it lets you connect via proxy for specific URLs, and for others you go directly there.
So in my case, the player loads through a proxy, the music (and other sites of course) load directly.
Works great for me!
June 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I was at one point able to record tracks WITH CORRECT TAGS from pandora using replay media catcher, but i had to reinstall and since then i get a random filename with no artist info. Any thoughts?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I’ve been using “screamer radio”.Recording quality is awesome.Another cool feature is that ic can record a song from the beginning even when you start recording in the middle.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I use Radiotracker, great app.Saves the recordings from internet radios as mp3’s and can also be scheduled to record.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder can record any web streaming audio,sound from your sound card, microphone and other decives. Then save the record audio as mp3,WMA, WAV, AC3, M4A, AAC, OGG, APE,etc.
Oh, there is an online demo show to how to do it .
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/streaming-audio-recorder.html
July 18th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Here a useful article for helping you get free music or vids off internet for ur ipod,psp,zune etc.
“How to download and convert FLV to MP3\MP4…”
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/resource/flv-to-mp3.html#135
July 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
The Internet Radio Recorder can record Internet Radio into MP3 or any other audio formats. find more from here:
http://www.recordstreamingaudio.net/internet-radio-recorder.html