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- Price: Free to try (Some options disabled); $19.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: November 30, 2005
- Total Downloads: 161,166
- Downloads last week: 84
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 72 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you've experienced Internet radio, you may never go back to FM. Think about it: high audio quality and tons of content, without any advertising for antifungal foot powder. Programs such as StationRipper are the cherry on this ice cream sundae of audio bliss. Like the legendary Streamripper, StationRipper monitors Shoutcast Internet radio streams and saves individual tracks as MP3s. Just point it to your favorite station, specify a destination directory, and set it loose. If you don't know any Internet radio stations, no problem: StationRipper pulls a list from the Shoutcast Web site. You can set it to detect and record songs by title or artist. It also can record hundreds of streams simultaneously and skip already downloaded files. The interface, unfortunately, is cluttered with Google ads and is rather confusing. We also encountered some cryptic error messages. Nevertheless, once we got the hang of StationRipper, we generally found it easy to use. It's a great way to shift your favorite Internet broadcast onto your iPod for your morning commute.Publisher's description
From Ratajik Software :StationRipper allows you to record more than 7,000 Internet radio stations, many users on broadband connections report downloading 3000+ songs a day. It will provide you with a list of available shoutcast stations and start recording them, creating a single MP3 file for each song the station plays. It also will allow you to record up to 300 streams at one time; drag-and-drop from iTunes radio; record video; use the memory recording feature (don't rerecord music you already have); remember the stations you've recorded in the past, allow you to easily rerecord them; track and play the music you've recorded; buy the music you are recording; ignore songs under a certain size; autorecord every time you bring the application up; chat with others about the stations you are recording (and share them); filter the songs to be recorded; and copy incomplete (and duplicate songs). Version 2.25/A has a French translation.
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User reviews of StationRipper 2.25a
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 72 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
"if your appetite for music is insatiable"
Pros: You can rip song by song, or rip a station for x amount of time into a file. I put the songs or timed file on my mp3 player and listen wherever, whenever.
It's a great way to find music you want to buy or find out you don't want to buy something. Screening music, in other words.
If you rip, say, an hour of a radio station and listen to it on your portable player, you have portable commercial-free radio! Nice. (Or rip a bunch of hours. Just start the ripping and let it go.)
Cons: Some petty stations screw with the signal and mess up the ripping, but these are few and you have thousands of stations to choose from.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
Pros: I Dislike
Cons: Is Not complete
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
Pros: I don't like anything about the software.
Cons: It looks like it would be easy to use, but it certainly isn't. Nothing is intuitive. The online help is worthless (it doesn't even look like it's describing the program that I downloaded.) Whoever developed this software wasn't thinking about the user. I'm sure it's all clear in their mind, but none of that clarity get communicated to the user. Sorry I think this is a piece of crap.
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
"Tons Of Free mp3s - LEGAL!!!"
Pros: First of all, this IS free. I've used it a ton (4,000 mp3s) for about one year, never paid (I don't know why it says you need to buy it-you don't). Download it from their website if you are asked to buy it here.
OK. Basically you search for music by genre/etc from a huge library of stations, pick up to 2 stations that sound good, and download the entire station. Leave this program on overnight. Some stations don't cut off the song ends properly... so find a station that does and stick to it. You can actually make the songs download extra material for the beginning/end to ensure you get the full song, but then you must manually cut the ends, which is time consuming.
As far as I know, this is the best legal way to get mp3s for free (maybe even the best, period). You can find popular songs, as well as rare songs.
Cons: As discussed above, the songs don't always begin/end at the correct point.
I would recommend leaving it on a single station for about a week or two, to make sure you get ALL the songs from that station (it gets about 80% of the mp3s the first pass, another 80% the next pass, and so on. Do the math.)
It is difficult to search for a single song. Use this program to get a lot of songs, then keep the ones you like.
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