Turn up the radio

October 6, 2009 9:25 AM

What is the best software for recording streaming AM radio stations? There are late night shows on, some that have podcasts but some that don't. I want to 'set it and forget it' and have the results in an mp3 format.
posted by CodeMonkey to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

It's not software, but there's the radio shark:

Record while you listen, or set up recordings to occur later or according to a repeating schedule. You never have to miss a favorite show again. Recordings are saved to your hard disk, and can be added (automatically!) to your iTunes library for listening on your iPod.

posted by jquinby at 9:28 AM on October 6, 2009

Ah, just saw that you want to record the streams themselves. I've attempted this with various command-line widgets and crontab entries with mixed results. There's a thread here that talks about it. Not sure how you'd do it w/o unix/linux/MacOS X
posted by jquinby at 9:30 AM on October 6, 2009

Sorry, last post (this is really interesting to me): it looks like audacity can do it (and the price is right). Not sure about the scheduling bit, though.
posted by jquinby at 9:35 AM on October 6, 2009

Streamripper
posted by phrontist at 9:56 AM on October 6, 2009

For Macs you can use Radiolover (payware).
posted by jet_silver at 10:24 AM on October 6, 2009

You can do this on either platform using the ever-awesome VLC.

Here are some starting points:
How to Record Internet Radio Streams with VLC on a Mac (youtube),
How to Record a Network Stream with VLC Media Player,
Scheduling the recording of an Internet radio stream with VLC **

(** advanced)
posted by bhance at 3:35 PM on October 6, 2009 [1 favorite]