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mbricker
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 Posted - 05/19/2003 : 11:02:30 PM
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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-0-2
StreamRipper
http://download.com.com/3000-2168-10152668.html?tag=lst-0-5
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bluestar_one
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Posted - 05/28/2003 : 06:18:47 AM
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Hi mbricker,
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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ThatGuy
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Posted - 10/08/2003 : 7:14:14 PM
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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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Chameleon
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Posted - 10/12/2003 : 5:00:48 PM
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How is this different from the built-in save stream to disk function?
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Don
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Posted - 10/12/2003 : 5:14:37 PM
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| if by "save stream to disk" you mean the wave output plugin that saves as a wav file, more disk space, and recompressing to mp3 makes a double compression which will be lower quality. Can winamp save the compressed stream directly? That's what streamripper does. |
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ETraylor3OnAIM
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Posted - 10/13/2003 : 6:28:23 PM
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It's important that you download the PLUG-IN. There are SEVERAL stream rippers available but the ONLY one to use can be found on google with the criteria "winamp stream ripper plug in". You want the latest version for your OS <duh.>. :)
Oh, and I use Shoutcast to find lots of Inet radio stations... :)
Happy hunting
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deznuts
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Posted - 10/17/2003 : 11:37:36 PM
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Being a shoutcast broadcaster myself . . . Better hope the station you rip doesnt crossfade or have commercials 
- Deznuts |
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PokeyKat
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Posted - 01/29/2004 : 6:55:16 PM
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Thanks mbricker!! |
Edited by - PokeyKat on 02/21/2004 7:17:54 PM |
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Llama
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Posted - 01/29/2004 : 7:52:22 PM
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| gotta wonder, is this legal?? |
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Beggarstune
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Posted - 02/06/2004 : 7:08:15 PM
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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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Beggarstune
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themfu(at)sonic.net
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Posted - 04/08/2004 : 2:08:01 PM
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fantastic!!!!!!!!!
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untellableEpiphany
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Posted - 06/28/2004 : 09:47:12 AM
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Finally got around to trying this... simply amazing. I could fill up my entire Neuros using this in no time. Incredible variety of music, all free and really nice quality. Great way to get a bunch of songs that you might not have otherwise heard and all the current radio hits too. Not sure about the legality of it but it doesn't seem like it would be any less legal that recording from FM radio so I'm not feeling too guilty.
Neuros II 128/40GB bundle on order |
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WAD
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Posted - 08/21/2004 : 11:56:26 PM
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| I use Winamp 5.01, could someone please inform me as to which one of those stream ripper version is the one for me? or do i need to update winamp :| |
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WAD
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 12:05:33 AM
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| actually i figured it out ^_^, gotta love READING ... |
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Llama
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 12:11:41 AM
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feel free to rip my stream, i'd be honored its in my sig
http://69.161.68.95:8002 Llama Radio: All Rock, 24/7 (unless i shut my computer down) |
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WAD
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 12:34:07 AM
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anyone try the "delayed" method??
or anyone have any like skipping sounds in the song? (say your pc was loaded down while streaming)
I haven't noticed any yet, but i'd hate to have a few bad apples in a bunch of awesome songs... also wonder if delayed method would improve it :| :D |
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WAD
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 01:23:59 AM
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| have noticed that at the end of one song (if the next is kinda played in from the backgrounnd behind the end of the first song) it has a tidbit of the second song on the file :| |
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natesneat2000
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 07:54:10 AM
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| I assume shoutcast stations are generally in MP3 format, not Ogg Vorbis, correct? |
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WAD
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Posted - 08/22/2004 : 10:53:02 AM
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correct, and i've also found a MUCH cooler program...
http://www.ratajik.com/StationRipper/
it allows you to rip up to 300 stations at once from shoutcast... and other sites if wanted... ^_^ |
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PokeyKat
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Posted - 09/08/2004 : 7:05:58 PM
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Dunno why u would want to record 300 shoutcast stations!!! Don't get me wrong, this is a cool technique, but I ran out of anything interesting/worthwhile after about 10...Plus, although it is interesting to listen (not record, I never record)to other peoples music collections, face it, most other people's music collections suck...Because they are just that, other people's stuff, not your favorite handpicked awesome killer stuff...
That's why things like Kazaa,etc are so cool, because they allow you to go "Uh...." and eventually you think of an artist you like and find some stuff, only its mostly just the popular stuff, not really deep collection quality stuff, just impacted on the surface type stuff...
And then there is MMJB, Music Match Jukebox, which offers an "On Demand" service for something like $8/month. On Demand means you can browse their music collection, which is sizeable and quite friendly because of its "related artist" feature, which brings up 75 or so artists similar to the one you chose, leading to related artists for those artists and so on. It is an ideal way to hear full length commercial free hand picked internet radio, saving playlists to listen to anytime you want as often as you like. Some of the artist collections are quite deep (like 500+ James Brown tracks), while some are not (like 1 Radiohead track). But I think that's pretty much on par with most music services. And of course all of that music is available for purchase by track or album.
I know some people that heard about some people that used a program like i-sound Pro Mp3 Recorder (which basically records any sound you can hear on your computer's sound card) that has a VOX feature (voice activated recording) which can separate tracks into files using the silence between them (adding a 2sec silence/beep/2sec silence track between audio tracks would probably help this be more accurate). I think they said the files could then be renamed according to the playlist, and the tags, complete with album art, could be looked up using MMJB's lookup system... but I don't know anything about that, so don't ask me for pointers. I do know that in the last week they have ripped and tagged 2500 handpicked tracks. Some folks have no scruples.
However, I highly recommend MMJB in general and the "On Demand" service in particular for those who like to listen to a more personalized playlist in Internet radio. |
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READ THIS...This a find like no other...
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