(Good things happened to Radio and for Radio listeners during 2007. Around this time of year, Santa takes credit for all of it. So, here is Old Saint Nick's list of 10 gifts he gave Radio during the past year - in no particular order. Of course, this is only his opinion and you may disagree - at the risk of getting coal in your stocking.)
A Swedish company created a device called PopCatcher and described it this way: "PopCatcher captures individual songs from a radio broadcast, without commercials or speech. It thus addresses the main problem of mp3-players today, i.e. the time consuming task of locating and downloading songs from the Internet. Providing a radio with a PopCatcher functionality provides the user with simple and direct access to each song played on the radio, without violating copyright or other laws."
The PopCatcher technology "...distinguishes between music, speech and commercials in radio broadcasts."
Website: www.popcatcher.com


