Recording Internet Radio

[paulhusker]

Found a great app called Radio Rip: Radio RIP - Android app from Spartacus Rex | Appolicious Android App Directory

It allows you to record up to 4 internet radio streams. It separates the songs out or tags them. Then you can go into your recordings and store the songs on your phone's SD card. Then you can transfer them to your computer and/or iPod. Good way to beef up your music library.

One drawback is that they don't have a lot of "mainstream" radio station choices to record but you can manually add your favorite station as long as it streams in mp3. I've found plenty of choices at Free Internet Radio - SHOUTcast Radio - Thousands of Free Online Radio Stations You can find the streaming URL by right clicking the stream of your choice, Save Target As, then saving it as a Document. Once in Documents, right click on the item, open it w/ Notepad. Then you can find the URL which starts w/ http:// and then ususally a bunch of #'s following it.

If you want good quality recordings, I always use the 128 bitrate streams.

 

[ksatta]

zRadio

I developed an app just for this. Easily record automatically and then you can listen to the stations offline. It's now in its beta stages. Mainly the UI still needs to be tweaked for different resolutions and screen sizes.

zRadio:
- Supports all formats supported by your phone. For example OGG is supported in Android 2.3+.
- The recordings are lossless (same quality as the station is sending). Only some lossless changes are done to some formats.
- etc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ksatta.irop