I read this article in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning:
StreamRipperX is, very simply, a tiny piece of software for the Mac that records live, continuous MP3 audio streams from Net radio stations, automatically breaks up the songs they play into individual, high-quality, discrete MP3 files, names them and then lets you listen, organize, burn custom CDs, whatever. All free.
This is all it does. It is very simple. But it is, quite simply, the greatest thing ever in this lifetime ever. Think about it.
Here’s an example of what you can do right now: Click on one of hundreds of DJ-free, 24-hour online music stations of a particular, favorite genre, leave StreamRipper running for a few hours (or all day) and come back later — and, boom, waiting for you is a couple gigs of fresh new music, hours and hours worth, all organized by song name and group, ready to burn right to CD. Amazing. So much for Napster.
I mean: Damn. I am so behind. And like I’ve said, I’m on the Internet 24/7.
Needless to say, guess who downloaded StreamRipperX and set to work minutes later?
It does work as advertised, by the way.