I love Streamwriter

[Charmonium]

Not sure if maybe this belongs in another subforum but I recently discovered this freeware program and wanted to share.

I like to listen to internet radio and especially like the fact that most stations send out text showing the artist and song that's playing. However what I don't like is sitting through 20 crappy songs to find the one that I really like.

Enter Streamwriter. It senses silences between songs and clips them out with the artist and title in the file name. Then you can just skip through several hours worth of tunes and find just the ones you really like. It's not perfect in terms of how it clips songs, but it's pretty darn good.

It has other features too such as monitoring multiple streams, minimum audio bitrate, song wishlists, variable silence detection and probably a lot more that I haven't discovered yet. If you like music but are picky about what you want to listen to, this is indispensable. And you can't beat the price. Btw, it actually seems to work too - bonus!

 

[Pulsar]

So it's a Tivo. Do they still sell Tivos? Just wait. They'll DRM you into oblivion eventually.

 

[John Connor]

Looks interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Charmonium]

So it's a Tivo. Do they still sell Tivos? Just wait. They'll DRM you into oblivion eventually.

You can't send a DMCA notice to someone you can't find and afaik, internet radio stations aren't in the habit of tracking their listeners. Even if they were, as far as they know, I'm just groovin' to the tunes. There's no way to see that I'm recording them.

 

[sdifox]

Whatever happened to listening to your own collection?

 

[Charmonium]

Whatever happened to listening to your own collection?

Sure, that fine and good but finding new music you like can be bitch. Even finding a station that tends to play things you like can be a drag. I like to listen to college radio because it tends to be pretty eclectic and when they're not playing rap or hip hop, sometimes play some pretty interesting stuff. But they also play a lot of stuff you would never listen to if you were paid to. So you need to have a way to sort through their offerings in a way that doesn't require you to listen 24/7.

 

[Pulsar]

You can't send a DMCA notice to someone you can't find and afaik, internet radio stations aren't in the habit of tracking their listeners. Even if they were, as far as they know, I'm just groovin' to the tunes. There's no way to see that I'm recording them.

That used to be true of video as well - then came DRM built into high-definition components, insuring that the trust-linkage was complete before allowing you to play anything. I just ran into it on Netflix - evidently one of my components (it can't tell me which) doesn't support their DRM so I can't watch high definition. Let us know when your audio starts sounding like AM radio.

 

[Charmonium]

I don't see that happening. The additional expense involved in adding a layer of security that would prevent recording is going to be prohibitive for at least 90% of streaming radio stations. The one I listen to is a little itty bitty college station and there's no way they could continue streaming if they had to worry about DRM bullsh**.

And in terms of the hardware, all that does is make you jump through a few more hoops to get the content you want. Sure, it's enough to shut most people down but not if you're dedicated.

Besides, that still wouldn't stop me. I use a non-logging VPN for all of my internet access. So unless they can figure a way to get my IP address by magically plucking it from the ether, which would sort of defeat the purpose of using a VPN, there's no way anyone is going to track me.