Recording Radio with Snaptune One

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.videoscreencast.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/9/Default.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.videoscreencast.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/9/Default.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Recently a few friends of mine started a new company called Snaptune and developed Snaptune One. The software enables you to automatically record AM/FM broadcasts from your PC. Unlike other software out there that simply records broadcasts to MP3 or WMA, Snaptunes breaks the broadcasts into individual songs and automatically detects the song and tags the file with the proper metadata. The software has a number of great uses. I enjoy listening to new music, but cannot stand listening to local radio advertisements. For this reason I stopped listening to my radio in my car and relied on listening to podcasts and my 80’s CD collection. After a while, it became obvious my music collection needed to be updated. Snaptunes solved this problem. I run Snaptune on my computer at home and the software continuously records from my favorite stations."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/songs.thumb.jpg" /><br /><br />If you're a radio junkie, this looks like a great way to record shows (and songs) for later playback. The auto-tagging feature looks slick! I was never able to get the radio tuner on my <a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html">Hauppauge 500 MCE TV Tuner</a> to work, so I have no radio-equipped PCs.

[leslietroyer]

I use TimeTrax http://www.timetraxtech.com/ to do much the same thing with XM radio. The software works OK, but isn't totally stable. My biggest complaint is that some of the Decade stations feel like they need a DJ to get that feel for the era. They often stomp on either the beginning or end of the song. So you end up having to preview all the songs and toss the ones that have artifacts.


Les