I was up too late playing with this new toy, an app called Raima Radio.
You can record internet streaming radio stations from around the world to mp3s. The interface it pretty intuitive and easy to use. I have XM radio's Delphi, and I like it, but it is too heavy to carry on rides. So, I do the mp3 to iPod shuffle cycling music thing. But I need some new tunes. Raima Radio has come to my musical rescue.
You may have to click on a bunch of different stations, since many do not open for some reason. But if you are patient, you can find a good one, and you can record immediately or schedule recordings of anything playing on the internet radio stations in the search results. There is a drop-down menu for different types of searches, such as station name, genre, country. If you right and left click your mouse buttons, you should be able to figure out how it works. Click on the Wrench to see or change the default settings or the directory where the newly recorded mp3s are routed.
I went on the Raima Radio user forum and poked around, and I get the feeling the whole app has been created and iterated by one or maybe a few people who are really making an effort to resolve any technical issues users might have (firewalls, formatting). So give her, him, them a break. It is free. Good effort. Thank you for not crashing my machine and for letting me listen at 1 am to monster truck pull event announcer voices talking in Italian between trance tracks.
So far, Raima Radio is an easy way to grab some rapid tunes for those of us who pedal better when we are listening to senseless, crazy fast, club, techno, trance, rock, house, funk music stew. (Record some Charlie Parker or Glenn Gould tearing it up for your recovery ride.)
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