How can I record music streaming from Internet radios to MP3 audio file?
With this step-by-step description you can record music from Internet radios with the web radio recorder for your personal use as MP3 file for PC, smartphone, tablet, apple iphone and ipad.
Good to know: No copyright protection is circumvented
Radio streams that can be recorded with Audials do not use any effective protection against recording and output unencrypted audio e.g. on the PC’s sound card. Audials always only records such unencrypted audio data. According to US Copyright Law “No action may be brought … alleging infringement of copyright based on … distribution … or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a … digital audio recording device”.
Download for free the Windows software Audials One without any registration and install it. Start Audials One and switch to the “Radio” section. Select e.g. a music genre. Alternatively, you can enter a search term into the search bar, for example your favorite artist.
Now click on “Mass Recording”. Choose how many songs from how many online radio stations Audials One should record. Then confirm by clicking “Start mass recording now“. The music files that match the genre or the search term you selected will be recorded.
Audials automatically adds ID3 tags, covers and song texts. Once the recordings is completed, the files will show up in the Audials player on the right side of your screen. You can now play them with Audials, edit them or drag and drop them into another application or Windows Explorer to export them.
To fulfill your music wishes perfectly, you can select all radio stations by country, top artists, top hits, genres and subgenres and you can be assured that you get exactly the music you want.
Besides Audials One also Audials One offers all radio functions. Both programs have all that you ever wished for in the radio sector. A database with more than 100.000 radios, 1,450,000 artists, 3,000,000 albums and 12,000,000 mp3 is the fundament to fulfill all your music wishes automatically.
Here you can find a short overview and interesting information about the most important music genres:
1. Start Audials One and switch to the “Music” view.
2. Open the “Wish” tab.
3. Type your wish in the search box, or click through the proposals in “Artist”/”Playlists & Compilations”/”Related artists”/”Music zoom”.
4. Select an album, artist or title and click “+”. The selected item is marked with a magic wand symbol and is added to your wish list. Add more wishes, if you like.
5. Below your wish list, click “Activate list…”.
6. Choose the fulfill settings for your wishlist.
7. Confirm your settings by clicking “Activate wish list”.
Shoutcast and Icecast are freeware streaming servers for audio streaming and by this allow to operate internet radios. In their internet radio directories you can find thousands of web radio stations from different genres Audials has access to. Thus Audials can offer a big amount of different radio stations for every taste which can be recorded at any time.
The Shoutcast directory has over 45,000 radio stations from music, talk and sports from the whole world. By using the integrated radio web player you can simultaneously listen to radios and explore new ones.
Icecast is developped by Xiph.Org Foundation since 2001. The fundamentally changed Version 2 is developped since the beginning of 2004. In November 2012 Icecast announced that they’ve got over 14,800 available radio streams, more than 13,600 in the MP3 format.
In Audials we’ve got many radio stations that originally come from the terrestrial area and that are still broadcasting that way. Nevertheless those radios by now also offer streams over the internet, which allows you to listen to your favourite radio station even if you are not in the broadcasting area. Among those are the most popular English-language radio stations, which can be played and recorded with just one click!
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Music played by online radio stations is copyrighted. Any redistribution of it without the consent of the copyright owners may be a violation of the law in most countries, including the USA. Audials AG is not affiliated with the online radio stations, the music played by them, nor the company that owns the trademark rights to the online radio stations. This page is provided for compatibility purposes only, and in no case should be considered an endorsement of Audials Software products by any associated 3rd party.
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With Audials One you can record more than 100,000 radio stations in different languages. Audials One recognizes the music tracks, cuts them, adds ID3 tags, lyrics and album covers. Try the demo now!
