Four easy steps to rip some streaming music to your mp3 player

To start with, I have no idea if this is legal or not, I think it is, but you do this at your own risk. Sorry, this is Windows only- I have a Mac but it’s an old one and a bit rubbish so I only use it for checking websites on.

 

First, go to http://www.foobar2000.org/ and download the Foobar2000 player- it’s free and can play loads of file types without overloading the system.

 

Second, go to http://www.somafm.com/, scroll down to ‘our stations’, right-click on the title of the station that you’re interested in- I recommend Drone Zone for ultra-ambient or Cliqhop Idm for nice electronica- and choose ’save target as’ or equivalent.  This will save the playlist to your hard drive.

 

Find where you downloaded the playlist, right-click on the .pls file and choose ‘open with’, then when the box pops up asking which program you want to open it with, choose Foobar (you might have to Browse for the program if it’s not in the list). Tick the box which says ‘always use this program for this type of file’.

 

The playlist will open in Foobar provided you are connected to the internet- the cool thing about this is that you can use Foobar to rip the music and listen to it on your mp3 player- you do this in Foobar by right-clicking on the name of the track that’s playing and choosing ‘convert’ - if you want to rip it to mp3 you might have to download the LAME encoder- grab it here - and tell Foobar where the Lame.exe file is when it asks. It will convert the stream into an mp3 for as long as you’re listening to it; you can then copy this over to your mp3 player. Nice eh?