Recording radio off the net on pc

for most protected formats (die realplayer die & get crabs!!) there's a program called 'total recorder' that might help (it records everything like an audio loop from your speakers to your hard drive.

for mac 'audiohijack' might do the same

also (PC) jetaudio is incredibly useful, for converting multiple types of formats into more useful formats.

many 'streaming' real audio files can be actually downloaded if you open the .rm file in notepad and find the 'real' address.

'streamripper' (PC/Mac) owns recording shoutcast mp3 streams. It's a standalone program OR a winamp plugin, possibly itunes as well, I forget.

If you don't mind the command line, this works well for Real streams. I'm pretty sure it works for Windows too:

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/12027#209631

awesome link!

see these comments in the thread.

To elaborate on that entry, MPlayer is ideal for flaky connections because it is capable of ripping the original stream packets directly to disk.

Thanks folks. AFAICT AudioHijack doesn't do what I want -- it records audio in real time so if the connection drops out, so does the recording.

I gave up looking for something like that a long time ago. You sir - rule.