Capture/RIP Music Streams for Easy, Free, Legal, and Tagged Music/MP3 Files

Contributed by AlexTheBeast

March 28, 2005

Tagged: Windows

Wanna fill up your iPOD cheap with great music? This is free and legal.

Since I got my iPOD, I have been looking for ways to fill it up without spending an arm and a leg. I have been shocked on the high quality of music files I get by capturing online radio music streams. Using a ripper that captures the mp3 tags as well really makes it nice.

You download, install, and run the ripper. I currently use ripcast. With it, you just select the online radio station that you wish. It will gladly rip as long as you wish. I usually do it overnight and wake up to hundreds of properly ripped and tagged mp3 files. The quality is excellent because it rips from high bandwidth streams.

A tons of streams are available. I usually rip a popular stream, a college stream, and a 80s stream… all at the same time! Last time I checked there were 9000 ripable streams listed.

Here’s a download link for the trial version of ripcast. It cuts you off after a certain number of files. The trial gives an excellent view for you to see how well it works for you.

Download a trial version of Ripcast.

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