How to Record Online Radio Stations?

Record Songs from your Fav Radio Stations! EASY!


Let’s say you are bored of your music collection and want to experiment new genres or just want to find more songs that fit in your desired genre. In such case I resort to online radio stations and there are tons of them. So let’s assume you find a radio station you like and you just let the music jam in the background while you are working. Unexpectedly and out of nowhere you hear this song that you never heard before and you really like it, but shoot the song just finished and you didn’t even get the name of the song down. You just wish the radio would play that song again but you keep listening for days and still nothing!

So to avoid such disappointment and after googling the dilemma, I found an amazing free add-on to Winamp that enables you to record online streams. Not only that but it automatically tags each track and puts it in a folder on your desktop. Is it legal? RIAA might think not, but for ages people have been recording their favourite radio stations, so I say let it be.

Bla Bla Bla.. so how does this whole thing work?

First you need to download Winamp. If you don’t already have it (download here). After downloading and installing Winamp, download a program called Streamripper (download). Install Streamripper and restart Winamp. After you restart Winamp you'll find a similar icon to the one in the photo below:

Double-click it:

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That window below is Streamripper. Now all you need to do is find a radio station. I prefer Di.FM [click here]. DI.FM offers all the music genres I can think of. From Jazz, Reggae, Electronic, Ambient, Guitar, Hip Hop, to Classical Beethoven music and Classic Rap and lots of others. So check out their website and make your selection. It offers streams for Windows Media Player, Winamp, and AAC. For this tutorial and to be able to record the station, click on the Winamp stream (offered at 96k). After you make your choice, play the stream and click on start in Streamripper to start recording the station:

As each song is recorded it will be placed on your desktop in a folder, each track will be tagged with the appropriate song title and artist:


Downloads:

Streamripper [Mirror 1] [Mirror 2]
Winamp [Mirror]
DI.FM [click here]
Shoutcast (Online Radio Stations) [click here]

Enjoy...