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[mrwul]

Likely it has been covered many times - but I have not been very much successful
in finding the solution whilst searching for "Internet Radio" on the MC-website nor
in the Help-files.

I wished to listen to a radio-station. Assuming that I had about everything
installed  on my pc that wud do the job, it came as a surprise that I cud not get
it going (no sound, nothing) and had to follow the recommendation on the site to
install RealPlayer.
(Prior to installation the link that I had to click to get sound prompted me to
download a kind of .sram-file).

Anyway, I downloaded RealPlayer plus a small recording utility, capturing the
sound output to save it to a .mp3 file.

Q: is this possible within MC ?
If so, cud someone get me a hint where to look within MC and what to do?
If not, would it not be a kind of nice, new feature?

Thanks
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[brain21]

You might want to google for Stream Ripper.  It is a cool app that can take internet radio streams and rip them to your hard drive.  MP3 and RealAudio I know are supported.  You can set it to stream the entire station as one file, or break it up based on volume drops, etc. I believe.

The cool thing is that it can receive and rip over 100 radio stations and streams simultaneously.  I don't know if it will do video as well, I'll have to double check, but it seems like a really cool app.  Get it now before the RIAA tries to make it illegal!  :-)

Yes, it is not integrated, but you can rip the stuff to the drive and then use Media Center to listen to that stuff.

Alex F/Brain21

[tlongacre]

Another cool app that I use is called Replay Radio. It let's me record my favorite radio programs even when I'm not at the computer. Then I import them into MC and put 'em on my iPod to listen on the train.

[KingSparta]

Rip Cast

http://www.xoteck.com/ripcast

[mrwul]

Thanks for the replies. Tried both apps and felt they are a bit complicated.
Still had to install RealPlayer.
Anyway, my relatively simple workaround is the combo of RealPlayer and
SuperMP3 Recorder (http://www.supermp3recorder.com/), which looks really
straightforward.

However, my idea to introducing this as a new feature of MC, is that strange?

brgds
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[KingSparta]

i thought it was rather easy, I pressed a button and it recorded all the songs for 24hours

[GHammer]

Audiotools 4.7 does this well even names the files by artist and title if the stream has it. Better still, Audiotools does many other cool things with sound, files, soundcards. It's not expensive. And the author is a very nice guy who listens to the users. Most features in the app have come from 1 or two requests from the users. A rare thing these days.

http://www.unrelatedinventions.com/Audiotools/

[mrwul]

Did not try out your suggestion. Just noticed that MC offers a recording feature
as well. Tools/Advanced Tools/Record Sound. Maybe a scheduling feature to be
added in future.

[mrwul]

Thanks! will have a look at Audiotools and Ripcast as well.

[mrwul]

To all: thanks for the feedbacks. Bottomline is, I need another application to do the job.
E.g. I wud need RealPlayer to get radio-sound. Obviously it takes over playback control from MC.

Hope developers will have a look at the idea of integrating listening and
(scheduled) recording  Internet-radio thru MC.
Launching an URL, browsing to specific pages, launching an URL there, listen+
record. Features presently available within RealPlayer.

Thanks
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