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Recording Your Favorite Internet Radio BroadcastAlthough I'm waiting to see how well Griffin Technology's radioSHARK works once it arrives (reportedly in April), there are already several software applications that can do half of what the radioSHARK will be able to do: mainly, record Internet radio programming. Like the infamous TiVo, the radioSHARK will be able to digitally record your favorite programming; in its case, AM, FM, and Internet radio rather than television.
But if you're willing to forgo terrestial (AM and FM) radio in favor of Internet radio, you can already use either Replay Radio for the PC or Audio Hijack for the Mac. These products allow you to record any audio on your computer so that you won't won't be tied down to your computer to listen--you can simply transfer the digital recordings to your iPod or burn them to CDs to carry with you wherever you may travel. The advantages to this are obvious, and currently make digital recording applications and devices more interesting than TiVo--by providing mobility. As far as I know, with a TiVo you're still stuck at home; you'll have to sit on your couch to watch your recordings. With digitally recorded radio you'll be able to waltz around your neighborhood or hike in the mountains while enjoying your media on your iPod or Walkman. I'm excited about these applications, though I haven't used them much yet. About a year ago I regularly used an earlier version of Audio Hijack, when it was still a plugin for the now deceased Macamp. I used it to "hijack" a stream for rebroadcast on my Internet radio station. Now before you begin jumping to conclusions, let me inform you that I had the best of intentions in mind: I was using the technology to provide a lower-bitrate simulcast of a friend's high-bitrate webcast in order to accomodate dialup Internet radio listeners. The technology worked brilliantly, and I understand the newer stand-alone version version of Audio Hijack works just as well. Yet I didn't find myself using the technology to preserve archives of my favorite webcasts so that I could listen to them later. Perhaps it was because I've always preferred to listen to content live, as it's happening--I've never had much use for the recording feature of my VCR. Still, I once made ample use of the recording feature of long-lost my cassette recorder, and once in awhile I get the urge to take a recording of my favorite Internet radio show on the road. If an archive of the show isn't already available, one of these applications will most certainly come in handy.
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