I found this post on a web site I go to once in awhile. I don't have a high speed internet connection or I would give it a try.
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For those of you who are Winamp users and broadband subscribers, as I am, I listen to Shockwave radio (free high quality streaming music, WITH ID3 Tags). Anyway, I found several stations on thier site that have become my favorites and used it as a reference tool when I was watching the tunes and would write down the song names and go from there. The other day I stumbled upon a program on CNET called Stream Ripper, and man, this thing is OUT OF THIS WORLD. It works as a simple add-on to Winamp, and it rips every song, WITH ID3 Tag, that the internet radio station plays. EVERY SONG! Forget downloading, writing down, searching for songs, etc. Put the station on before bed, press the rip button, and you wake up the next day with several hundred crisp 128-190 bit songs, with ID3 tags, categorized (and even dumps repeats into a junk directory). CHECK THIS OUT. I promise you you will be amazed. (You'd think I was an advertisement or something!). I'll try and post the sites to these below...
(For those of you who are new to Winamp...try it, just stick with the older 2.91 version, 3.0 is buggy and slow)
Winamp
http://download.com.com/3000-2139-10199518.html?tag=lst-0-2StreamRipper
http://download.com.com/3000-2168-10152668.html?tag=lst-0-5Have fun!
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Hi ,
that's one nice tool that you found - had some difficulties to install it though - wouldn't run first as I also had Winamp3 on my machine - after uninstalling (it sucked anyways) it worked perfectly and I'm ripping like Jack...
Greetz
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Dude, I must say that this is one AMAZING find. You rock for sharing with the rest of us. Later
TG
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gotta wonder, is this legal??
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Can you back up a little? What's Shockwave Radio and how do I set it up?
Thanks!
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Okay, I figured it out, and it IS really cool.
Install your favorite version of WinAmp (I use WinAmp 3, but others have complained about its stability; it works OK for me).
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=winamp&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%2521+Install the matching version of StreamRipper
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/srdownloads.phpConfigure StreamRipper to save the MP3s somewhere.
Download a ShoutCast .pls file and open it in WinAmp.
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/If you're a DeadHead, like me, check out "Nebula - Grateful Dead Radio - Streaming shn's" - 800 minutes of the Dead since last night!
Let it rip!
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