The best streaming music recorder

What is the best streaming music recorder?

Is it Replay Music, Replay Media Catcher, Replay AV, HiDownload , StreamRipper, RadioTracker?

[Hubs]

Have been using Replay Music for about a year with my free Rhapsody radio from optimumonline isp provider. It works very well with ver. 2.1 the new Rhapsody ver. 3.0 with equalizer is having trouble tagging songs in fact it does not tag id songs at all. I had to reinstall ver. 2.1 and back to no problem

On another note the new ver. of Replay Music offers the option of recording in cbr or vbr. which is better to use with Rhapsody. also was wondering if Rhapsody has upgraded their stream quality. It was 128 kb but I am reading in places they may have uped it to 160 kb . If so should I record at 192kbs , instead of 128 kb.

Note from Admin: Replay Music is now up to version 5 and still works VERY well

[Hubs]

I have a question what type of mp3 decoder/encoder does Replay-Music use in its software. I came across this site
http://mp3decoders.mp3-tech.org/vbr.html
and was wondering if Replay-music uses one of these decoders .

[applian]

Hi -

Replay Music uses the LAME encoder.

Best Regards,

Bill Dettering
Applian Technologies Inc.

hey, this isnt gonna be the place to ask for this but, i was wondering if any one could direct me to how to get the programs ( 1 of the above ) so that i can record streamed audio. would really like to know plz.
thx mike.

Originally Posted by -mike-

hey, this isnt gonna be the place to ask for this but, i was wondering if any one could direct me to how to get the programs ( 1 of the above ) so that i can record streamed audio. would really like to know plz.
thx mike.

Replay Music
http://applian.com/replay-music/

Replay A/V (includes all Replay Radio features)
http://applian.com/replay-av/

Replay Radio
http://applian.com/replay-radio/

Replay Media Catcher
http://applian.com/replay-media-catcher/

Freecorder Toolbar
http://free-sound-recorder.net/freecorder3/

More links:
Video tutorial: How to Record a Radio Show with Replay AV 8
Video tutorial: How to Add A Station from the Media Guide to Replay A/V
Video tutorial: How to Capture then Convert Media with Replay AV 8 and Replay Converter
Video tutorial: How to Record a Radio Show and Send the File Anywhere with Replay AV 8 and YouSendIt

All streaming media recording software
All streaming audio recording software

Without a doubt, Audacity

Originally Posted by audio5

Without a doubt, Audacity

Like any other direct sound recording software Audacity can record any sound produced by your sound card. But it can't split songs and tag them automatically. So I can't call it the best streaming music recorder.

I think the best music and video recorder is the StreamHijacker. I have been using more then a year ago and it's really cool. Simply, fast, and free. Free because of it's Open Source. Anybody can download it from http://streamhijacker.sourceforge.net .

This software supporting the ShoutCast and IceCast protocols. It can ripping to separated files, make PLS or M3U playlist, TXT or HTML songlist and it have an inbuild ShoutCast radio station browser. Supporting the schedulded recording too!

I' ve tried some of these programs, but i finally decided to stick with RadioTracker. Besides the fact that it searches 15,000 Internet radio stations for music, it also currently tracks, among these internet radio stations, around approx 5,000 Internet radio stations that broadcast at 128 kbit/s quality and higher.

But I must say the the best feature is the MusicFinder's wish list function.You just fill in the desired artists or songs and as soon as they are played on one of the Internet radio stations, Radiotracker starts downloading and in just a few seconds you will be able to listen to your favorite music.

[moderator's editing notice]
RadioTracker can rip MP3 music from Shoutcast radio stations only. It is not intended to be a replacement of music download and subscription services