lavatory breakthrough
The other day I was in the office lavatory sitting on the toilet bowl and staring at the partition door when an idea hit me. Yeah, great ideas come at most unexpected times!
You see, the night before I went prowling the Internet again, this time looking for nice podcasts to tune to on my way to work. Podcasts are all the rage now, although I can't exactly comprehend why. The problem, as far as I'm concerned anyway, is that most podcasts are talkshows with little or no music. Those that do have are largely from the underground indie scene, meaning no record companies will coming suing for copyright infringements. So you'll never find any proper radio shows, let alone top 40 chart shows like Rick Dees, on podcasts. At least not for now anyway. Yeah, as they say, it royally sucks.
So back to the toilet cubicle where I was. Bad odours aside, there was nothing much to contend with. That was when I began thinking about how nice it'd be if I could get Internet radio on my mp3 player, especially my beloved Launchcast. And that's when the idea struck me! Won't it be great if I could record streaming audio into mp3 and load it into my player? (Okay, granted, it's not exactly some ground-breaking idea, but it's still inconceivable how such a thing didn't occur to me earlier.)
Would you believe it? As I discovered later, there're literally tons of websites teaching you how to accomplish that, using the dozens of software out there with such recording capabilities. Talk about Johnny-come-lately! They can even skip the commercials and split up the songs for you!
Check out Replay Music. It's not only able to record Launchcast streams (plus many others), but can even identify the name and artist of each song after recording (although as I found out, most of the time it can't identify correctly).
With a bit of tweaking here and there of the settings, the output tracks are not bad at all. Though not exactly CD-quality, they're certainly on par with what you get on radio, whether on the Internet or through the airwaves. Check out this song I recorded at 128kbps:
-- Third Eye Blind, Jumper
Not bad right?
And here's a bundle of ten consecutive songs straight from my very own customized Launchcast station. I've merged them together at a lower bitrate to reduce the size (17MB).
Anyone who can guess all ten songs correctly gets a treat from me. But you'll have to convince me that you didn't cheat by googling, ha! :D
You see, the night before I went prowling the Internet again, this time looking for nice podcasts to tune to on my way to work. Podcasts are all the rage now, although I can't exactly comprehend why. The problem, as far as I'm concerned anyway, is that most podcasts are talkshows with little or no music. Those that do have are largely from the underground indie scene, meaning no record companies will coming suing for copyright infringements. So you'll never find any proper radio shows, let alone top 40 chart shows like Rick Dees, on podcasts. At least not for now anyway. Yeah, as they say, it royally sucks.
So back to the toilet cubicle where I was. Bad odours aside, there was nothing much to contend with. That was when I began thinking about how nice it'd be if I could get Internet radio on my mp3 player, especially my beloved Launchcast. And that's when the idea struck me! Won't it be great if I could record streaming audio into mp3 and load it into my player? (Okay, granted, it's not exactly some ground-breaking idea, but it's still inconceivable how such a thing didn't occur to me earlier.)
Would you believe it? As I discovered later, there're literally tons of websites teaching you how to accomplish that, using the dozens of software out there with such recording capabilities. Talk about Johnny-come-lately! They can even skip the commercials and split up the songs for you!
Check out Replay Music. It's not only able to record Launchcast streams (plus many others), but can even identify the name and artist of each song after recording (although as I found out, most of the time it can't identify correctly).
With a bit of tweaking here and there of the settings, the output tracks are not bad at all. Though not exactly CD-quality, they're certainly on par with what you get on radio, whether on the Internet or through the airwaves. Check out this song I recorded at 128kbps:
-- Third Eye Blind, Jumper
Not bad right?
And here's a bundle of ten consecutive songs straight from my very own customized Launchcast station. I've merged them together at a lower bitrate to reduce the size (17MB).
Anyone who can guess all ten songs correctly gets a treat from me. But you'll have to convince me that you didn't cheat by googling, ha! :D
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