Rip music from streams – Last.FM to mp3

coulson — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:49:20 +0000

Streamripping, as you no doubt know, is how folk record Internet radio to their hard drives. There’s plenty of available software to do this. A quick search for ‘streaming audio recorder’ on SourceForge for example, has links to more than two thousand on-going projects, an idea of how popular it is. An open source project that doesn’t top this list, but perhaps ought to, is StreamRipper. That said, a quick scout on the home page and you could soon have that ‘lost in geekery‘ feeling coming on.

So lets say, you use Last.FM (superb web radio/music recommendation site from the U.K.) and you just want a simple way to record the odd song for off-line listening. You don’t want to faff about with Audacity neither (v.good open source soft). Well there’s a team from Danemark might just have what it is you is lookin’ for, sir.

TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3â€™s, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v2 tags and organizing your music after Artist/Album/Track. TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account.

Legal? Well, they sum that up on the FAQ with this statement:

That really depends in which part of the world you are living in. As for us, in Denmark, the law is that it is legal to record radio and/or TV, depending on the interpretation of the law.

Whatever. It’s all on the house, needless to say. There is more detail on the legal issue in the Google code page (wiki/LegalNotice).

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Rip music from streams – Last.FM to mp3