Filed under: iPod Family, Software
Griffin Technology announces iFill for iPod
The folks at Griffin Technology seem to come up with one great product after another for the iPod. Today I discovered iFill, a very nice looking application that streams and records mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to
your iPod. You can even capture content from more than one station at a time. Until now, I've been recording internet radio with a convoluted system of iCal events, Applescript and Ambrosia Software's WireTap. If iFill can get all of this done for me, I'll be a very happy camper. iFill requires Mac OS 10.3 or better and costs $19.99 USD.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Baumi said 8:44AM on 6-20-2005
If iFill doesn't suit you, you might also try Audio Hijack - it can record audio from any OS X application and has a built-in scheduler. I've been using it for quite some time to catch web radio in all kinds of formats.
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Dave Schultz said 10:19AM on 6-20-2005
Hats off to the smart people at Griffin. Still, I think this isn't the best solution to recording streams. I'm with Baumi -- Audio Hijack rocks for time shifting audio streams. There aren't enough hours in the day for me to listen to all the spoken word content I have for my 'pod.
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Twist said 3:56PM on 6-20-2005
If you are just wanting to save mp3's from internet streams I suggest iNet Stream Archiver.
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Dan Sandler said 11:00AM on 6-20-2005
I've always been very happy with Oleg Kibriev's RadioRecorder[1].
[1] http://u1.netgate.net/~snowcat/RadioRecorder.html
The UI isn't as slick as Griffin's, but RR is pretty flexible, allowing you control over whch days to record, what playlist and genre will receive each recording, etc. (It's also open-source under the GPL, which allowed me to discover[2] some tricks for the settings interface.)
[2] http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2004/11/17/radiorecorder-track-prefix-tip
RadioRecorder doesn't include any kind of "program guide", so you'll need to know what to record and when (and from what stream). I find PublicRadioFan[3] invaluable for this purpose.
[3] http://www.publicradiofan.com/
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Greg said 12:11PM on 6-20-2005
So I downloaded the trial version of iFill. It looks nice but doesn't really work. When I try to "preview" a radio station it says "fetching playlist" and then "No streams available".
But I know the station is up and running. Tried many stations through their main webpage and it always worked.
Any idea anyone?
thx
Greg
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umijin said 8:16PM on 6-20-2005
But dude, Radio Recorder is FREE and all you need to do is select an iTunes radio station or a URL of the radio feed to use it.
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christian Hieber said 4:41PM on 6-20-2005
@greg
If you use a proxy, try without it. I've heard other people with similar problems, on my machine it works fine.
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DF said 4:56PM on 6-20-2005
Dave:
Another good one is RadioLover:
RadioLover (a descendent of the popular StreamRipperX) lets you record MP3-based Internet radioboth those stations listed in iTunes and those you enter manuallyand then add the resulting recordings to iTunes. You can record multiple streams simultaneously, schedule recordings, and opt to automatically split recordings at set intervals. If the stream includes track information, RadioLover can even split recordings into individual tracks and then tag those tracks automatically.
(Blurb taken from article linked above.)
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Kevin said 10:34PM on 6-20-2005
I'll second the recommendation for radio lover, I've been using for almost 2 years and I love it.
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