Ripping Streams from ECGN Radio...

[Holden M'Groin Profile]

Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.

It's a very small and easy to use plugin for Winamp. I use it all the time when listening to Digitally Imported. It rips the streams to .mp3's in what ever kbps the stream was.

Streamripper

[Xenius]

Holden, how good are the rips you get from DI Radio? I used to rip from them but I'm a stickler for full length rips. I found that DI fades the songs into each other, and I'm not talking about beat matching either. Do your songs come out cut at the ends?

[Holden M'Groin Profile]

When I listen to DI radio or any streaming radio I listen in at 128kbps and Streamripper will rip the streaming audio to produce an mp3 of 128kbps. 128kbps is good as far a quality, but nothing compared to 192kbps, which is what I rip CDs at. Streamripper does a pretty good job at knowing when to pause the rip at the end of a streamed song and continue ripping at the beginning of another streamed song. The songs ripped from DI radio come out great and the ends are not cut at all.

[RCinator]

You guys need to bounce up to 320 or VBR(100%) for rips directly from CDs - the difference between them and 192 is as noticable as the difference betweer 128 and 192.

[Holden M'Groin Profile]

Yea, 320 is awesome, but when you have a 256MB mp3 player... you gotta make the most of the space.

[RCinator]

Point taken! I love my iPod - single best "waaay too expensive, but I REALLY want one" toy purchase I every mde.

[Holden M'Groin Profile]

You got an iPod!! See now you can upload 320kbps mp3s on that. I want one!!

[RCinator]

To be exact, I can upload 4,322 320KBps files onto it, and listen to them for 8 hours before recharging.