Is StreamRipperX legitimate and OK to use?

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Is StreamRipperX legitimate and OK to use?

I got the email below from a friend. Can anyone here verify that this program works and causes no problems? I would like to download songs as MP3 files and them put them into my iTunes. — Lorna in Southern California

Here is what my friend sent to me:

"StreamRipperX" is The MAC Internet Radio Recorder that lets you Record songs from your favourite Internet radio stations as individual MP3 files. ...
radio.about.com/od/macsoftware/

17" flatscreen iMac, 1 GHz Power PC G4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) LaCie external hard drive, 111 Gigabytes

Posted on Feb 13, 2006 12:16 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 13, 2006 12:21 PM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

Such applications (you might also take a look at audio hijack) will work - but they won't download anything - they will record in real time like your old tape recorder.

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Answer 2

Feb 13, 2006 2:53 PM in response to Kay Marczoch

Such applications (you might also take a look at
audio hijack) will work - but they won't download
anything - they will record in real time like your
old tape recorder.

You are saying that they do NOT download as an MP3 file?

-Lorna

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Answer 3

Feb 13, 2006 3:23 PM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

They will record a source and save it as e.g. mp3.

But they will work in real time: i.e. it will take 60 minutes to record 60 minutes of a - let's say - radio stream.

Those application really work like a tape recorder - as I said - without a tape, without any cabling.

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Answer 4

ojsebi

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Feb 14, 2006 2:21 AM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

I use RadioLover which is a more advanced version of StreamRipper X ( not free). Its just fantastic and only getting better.

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Answer 5

Feb 14, 2006 8:56 AM in response to ojsebi

I use RadioLover which is a more advanced version of
StreamRipper X ( not free). Its just fantastic and
only getting better.

Dear Kay and Axxil,
Thank you very much for your replies! I now feel better about giving StreamRipper X a try. My purpose for using this is that is that I want to put the MP3 files into iTunes so that I can use them in my little iMovies.

Axxil, I will tell me friend about RadioLover. 🙂

— Lorna in Southern California

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