Recording streaming audio on the Internet

[firecat]

A couple of my friends do radio shows that are streamed live on the Internet, but they happen at times I usually can't listen, and they aren't archived for copyright reasons.

Is there any Mac software that works like a VCR for streaming audio, that would let me set a timer to record the shows so I could listen later?

(I suppose that would be against the copyright rules too.)

Comments

[bibliofile]

Audacity is some excellent sound-recording software, but I don't know whether you can set it up on a timer. It's worth a look, though.

[amadi]

It looks like this $20 shareware called iRecordMusic can do what you're looking for, via the power of iCal's alarm system, which is pretty awesome for media purposes. If you wanted to go to mp3 you'd have to install LAME encoding libraries (hate that name!) separately but the software natively records in several iTunes compatible formats so you could listen that way.

I think I might try this out. I'm glad you asked this, I've wanted something like this for a while and kept forgetting to look to see if someone had developed it.

[firecat]

I tried it out and it worked perfectly and was really easy to use (I use iTunes). So I'll definitely be buying it. Thanks!

[amadi]

Yay!