The best streaming music recorder

Hi,

Definitely RadioTracker. My favorite tool

Yes, Radiotracker is my favorite tool, it has many useful features

[Morlione]

I saw some statements that this RadioTracker can download mp3s from radio stations, is it real???? And if it is how is the quality of the downloaded files??

It's very real and the quality of the files is good. There are some moments when the downloaded files are bigger than they should be but it has a feature which can allow you to cut the spare parts.

Originally Posted by Morlione

I saw some statements that this RadioTracker can download mp3s from radio stations, is it real???? And if it is how is the quality of the downloaded files??

Like many other Shoutcast stream rippers (please note that many of them are absolutely FREE), RadioTracker can download MP3 tracks from radio stations. It downloads the exact same copies from online radio stations. Most online radio stations have a pretty low bit-rate so you shouldn't expect too much from such MP3 files.

Hello,

The quality of the recorded files, like Stream Recorder said, depends on the bit-rate of the radio station. Most of them have 128 kBit/s. Radiotracker also allows you to select a higher bit rate, up to 320kBit/s and the downloaded songs will have a better quality, however you might have to wait longer until getting the favorite tracks.

[bobklahn]

The advantage to
StreamboxVCR: It is free. It captures Real Media and Windows media just fine. Most important, it can be schedualed or launched by command line.

Disadvantage: Not supported. Doesn't capture everything. Doesn't capture from audio.

Advantage to Magix Web-Recorder:

Plays and recorder everything I want. RM, WM, and shoutcast. Scheduals. Saves directly.

Disadvantage: Overcomplicated. Takes too long to load. Not free.

Biggest advantage to both: They are complete as is. You don't have to buy modules to do what you want. I have seen some programs that you have to buy this module and that module to do different things. Some will not schedual recordings, you can only caputer if you are there to run it. Some do not do full quality.

Then there is podcasting. For which I use Juice (formerly iPodder)

I do two main types of recording. There are the regularly schedualed broadcasts I get from either podcasts or Magix Webradio, and saved content like political stuff I use StreamboxVCR for.

Oh, almost forgot, videos on Youtube, that are captured on Firefox with the Unplug add on. Unfortunately it's not compatible with the newest version of Firefox. So I have to wait for the new Unplug to come out.

Or use a different downloader.

Do any of the other programs schedual downloads easily? And record full quality? We are talking shoutcast mostly here. And are complete and low cost?

My vote goes to Replay AV

Replay AV is so good to record online Radio, Video & mostly I like that we can record many shows at the same time

[whitefish]

Has anybody ever looked at iGetMusic? RadioTracker MP3s mostly have to be edited due to the crossfading between songs and thus songs will always miss the first and last bit of music. Replay Music works OK but the tagging of songs has a temporary problem.

Thought I'd mention that many of you interested in recording radio streams might find Antenna to be a good option. It's an AIR application I've been developing and it's donationware. You can download it here: http://bcdef.org/antenna