iTunes provides Shoutcast/Icecast streams. Traxx Ambient is offeres as an Icecast stream. There are lots of
Shoutcast/Icecast rippers that you can use to record from it.
If you can't launch this radio from traxx.fm, you may try to use the following playlist URL in your player or stream ripper:
Code:
http://www.itraxx.ch/Traxx_Ambient.m3u
This playlist file showed the following URL:
Code:
http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3
I tried to record with
Replay AV:
Code:
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Download capture type: Stream Capture
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Recording : http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM URL : http://www.itraxx.ch/Traxx_Ambient.m3u
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Filename : D:\Documents and Settings\Admin.ADMIN-96D58ED4E\My Documents\My Music\Recordings\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u May 04.cap
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM URL : http://www.itraxx.ch/Traxx_Ambient.m3u
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Starting Job #3
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Status 67379040: Looking up host www.itraxx.ch...
Mon May 4 5:09:27 PM Status 67379040: Connecting to host www.itraxx.ch...
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: Host www.itraxx.ch connected. Waiting for http://www.itraxx.ch/Traxx_Ambient.m3u.
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: GET /Traxx_Ambient.m3u HTTP/1.0
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: Accept: *.*, */*
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: Host: www.itraxx.ch
Mon May 4 5:09:32 PM Status 67379040: Accept-Encoding: gzip
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Transferring data from http://www.itraxx.ch/Traxx_Ambient.m3u.
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Received data for 67379040
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 00:09:32 GMT
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Server: Apache
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:08:12 GMT
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: ETag: "48b341a1-2f-45c7fd9d41700"
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Accept-Ranges: bytes
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Content-Length: 47
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Connection: close
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Session Started
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Download complete.
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67379040: Session Ended
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Wrote 47 bytes to translated GZ file
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Delete: D:\Documents and Settings\Admin.ADMIN-96D58ED4E\My Documents\My Music\Recordings\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u May 04.cap
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM PLS Line http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM PLS URL http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Filename : D:\Documents and Settings\Admin.ADMIN-96D58ED4E\My Documents\My Music\Recordings\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u\http---www.itraxx.ch-Traxx_Ambient.m3u May 04.cap
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM URL : http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Starting Job #8032
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Looking up host broadcast.infomaniak.ch...
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Connecting to host broadcast.infomaniak.ch...
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Host broadcast.infomaniak.ch connected. Waiting for http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3.
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: GET /traxx011-low.mp3 HTTP/1.0
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Accept: *.*, */*
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: User-Agent: WinampMPEG/5.0
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Icy-MetaData:1
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Host: broadcast.infomaniak.ch
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Accept-Encoding: gzip
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Transferring data from http://broadcast.infomaniak.ch/traxx011-low.mp3.
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Received data for 67393388
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-br:128
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: ice-audio-info: ice-samplerate=44100;ice-bitrate=128;ice-channels=2
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-br:128
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-description:Ambient
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-genre:Ambient
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-name:Traxx Ambient
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-pub:1
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-url:http://www.traxx.fm
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Server: Icecast trunk
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: Cache-Control: no-cache
Mon May 4 5:09:33 PM Status 67393388: icy-metaint:16000
Mon May 4 5:09:34 PM Status 67393388: Session Started
I tried StationRipper and it started recording OK as well.
What kind of problem exactly did you have when ripping?