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Snowtape: best Internet radio app ever?
Snowtape doesn't just play and record, though. It also lets you name, tag and add album art to your recorded audio files, so they'll fit right in with iTunes or your iPod. It has other perks, too, like the ability to schedule a recording using iCal, in case you're worried about missing a favorite radio show. Snowtape makes discovering new favorites easier, too, by building in a directory of stations, and allowing users to add their own stations to the list.
If you need more proof that Snowtape is a really well-thought-out app, check out the integrated editing feature that lets you trim the beginning and end of your recordings. There's even a companion iPhone app! If anybody needs me, I'll just be over here in my rocking chair, listening to Snowtape and reminiscing about what a pain it was to edit radio mixtapes by recording silence over the extraneous bits.
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Subscribe to commentsAftabMar 15th 2010 10:30AM
Now we need something to match on the PC side. Any ideas ?
JarasMMar 15th 2010 2:37PM
Well, Spotify for starters, though instead of recording like a caveman, you just pick your music and play ;)
TheOneAndOnlyJHMar 15th 2010 2:58PM
@JarasM
Your comment totally made me think of the Geico caveman. I wonder if he would be insulted? I guess it would depend on if he's an Apple fanboy or not. Imagine if Apple came out with a couple "it's so easy a caveman can do it" commercials.
For what it's worth, Apple confuses the heck out of me. It's like foreign technology; It may be good stuff but I grew up speaking Windows shortcuts, so when I select a program and hit enter it pisses me off to no end that it thinks I want to rename it. WTF?
KevinMar 16th 2010 8:45AM
@TheOneAndOnlyJH...Now who's the caveman? You sound like a Windows fanboy. Foreign technology? Ever hear of Linux? I'd suggest it to you, but it's probably over your head.
bonesApr 2nd 2010 1:36PM
PC side there are:
www.screamer-radio.com
www.radioget.com
www.radiosure.com
diablo0813Mar 15th 2010 7:42PM
I was thinking the same thing. There must be something out there?
theampersandMar 15th 2010 10:37PM
cough cough Stereo Mix
GaelicAUMar 17th 2010 10:56AM
Windows = RadioSure
Freeware and you can run multiple copies at once to you can record many stations streams at one go.
Two main differences to Snowtape is that its interface is less appealing and it also does NOT do album art.
It does save each song as an individual file which is good as.
On the topic of album art, the first song I recorded with SnowTape pulled in the correct artist and the correct title in the name but a different piece of album art (ie another song from the same artist).
Great program but obviously has some a / some small bugs.
GaelicAUMar 17th 2010 11:01AM
Oh, and another thing or two.
a) Even though one is MP3 streaming a station, why does Snowtape record the file as an AIFF. You have to go through a series of clicks to then re-encode to MP3. Very cumbersone and basically annoying - or am I just missing something?
b) Being able to run and record multiple streams (just like RadioSure on the PC) would be the ducks nuts. My ISP allows a whole host of traffic free 128 and 192 kpbs streams so when on Sunday nights, I fire up about 5 copies of the app and let it stream and record overnight. When I wake up in the morning, I have a whole working week of new music to listen to.
A9F4Apr 1st 2010 6:11PM
"a series of clicks to then re-encode to MP3"
Seems like 1 click to me, the "Export to Folder" button. I suppose I hit Command-A once to select all, so perhaps that's one (or two) of your clicks.