KALW in iTunes

July 7, 2007 10:15 AM

How can I add a listing for the stream from radio station KALW to my iTunes list of favorite radio stations?

Searching the web finds many listings for adding podcasts of individual KALW shows, but not the live stream [which can be found at http://www.kalw.org/listen.html]. This is on a PC running WinXPpro. I can listen live through the RealPlayer stream link: http://www.kalw.org/media/Streaming%20Links/kalw_stream.ram [Oddly, the link for streaming through Windows Media Player seems not to work]. But I am not able to find the URL to add to iTunes.

Extra points for a suggestion for a good system to record the iTunes stream for a specific station for a specific time. Many shows available as podcasts are actually slightly different from the same shows as live streams.

Thanks, Me-Fi ers.

posted by SamFrancisco to computers & internet (3 comments total)

iTunes can't play RAM or Windows Media stream files.

There are many apps out there though that can record a Windows Media stream file at a certain time of day and turn it into an MP3, though.
posted by gramcracker at 10:35 AM on July 7, 2007

gramcracker or others,
could you please suggest which Windows apps could record several streams as files on a weekly schedule with some reasonable file-naming convention, and which, if any, might also record from the kind of URL's that appear in iTunes radio listings?
posted by SamFrancisco at 11:19 AM on July 7, 2007

Sorry to be coming late to the party, SamFrancisco.

I use Replay AV professionally and think it's well worth the investment if you really want to listen to streaming radio on your own schedule.

I don't carry an iPod or use iTunes, but my colleague does and has found the integration with Replay works well.
posted by LinnTate at 8:50 AM on July 16, 2007