radiotracker Grabs MP3 Music from Internet Radio

Overall, this is truly useful and easy to use program. It automates the search for your music and can literally save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars in music downloads.

RadioTracker comes in two versions: Platinum and Premium. At this writing, the Premium version is $24.90 and Platinum with MusicFinder is $36.90. A free download trial version is available at the RadioTracker website: www.RadioTracker.com

According to webopedia, "The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act...deems copying of copyrighted music (with the exception of making a copy for your own use) as illegal."

And that is the premise RadioTracker operates under to allow users to stream practically any Internet radio station and automatically grab the music and write it to mp3 files for your iPod or any other digital player.

RadioTracker "rips" the music as it "listens" to the stations you choose either by: Genre, or your "Wishlist".

Finalized cuts are placed in separate folders by genre, artist, station if you choose or all in your main music directory.

MP3 Usability Test

Because there are variables between Internet streams, radiotracker won't always record every song perfectly. In my test, I created a wish list and let it run for 10 hours. Out of 57 songs it downloaded for me, 15 were what I categorized as "excellent" with no clipping. I would readily add those to my collection.

10 songs were "not bad" and had a very slight audio annoyance at the front - like a fast fade in.

27 songs were definitely "clipped" at the front and I would not add to a collection.

Finally, 5 songs were not rated for other reasons such as if I wasn't completely familiar with the beginning of the song to rate it or the recording had errors like silent passages, etc. (not necessarily the fault of radiotracker.)