How to Copy Songs From Online Radio

Online radio stations such as AOL Radio, Pandora Radio, XM Radio, BBC Radio, Sirius Radio and a lot of free internet radio stations offer us millions of streaming radio channels from more than 200 countries. While you are searching for and listening to your favorite music channels on the websites, would you like to copy songs from online radio for playback on your iPod devices?
If you answer this question certainly, follow suitable instructions provided in the upcoming passages.

Copyright issues apart, to copy songs from online internet radio and save it onto hard disk directly are not as complicated as you have predicted.

Without costing any penny, we still can accomplish this task by the use of free software or get down to using free versions of programs on the market.

Copy songs from online radio with FLV converter

There is an online video to audio converter, which is able to download audio files by pasting related video URL address onto its server. The name is called vixty.net. Whenever you want to convert a music video on YouTube or MySpace, just remember to copy and paste the link address and wait for extracting. Most of the time, it is fast to download an audio file from video in this way.

Install Audacity to copy songs off online radio

But if you just need help to copy songs off streaming online radio, a program which can capture streaming audio is probably what you need. First you need to download and install Audacity on your computer.

Install the program correctly and click mixer toolbar on Audacity and set the input source as stereo mix or wave out. This is very important, if not you can’t record songs rightly.

For copying songs from online radio, go to the radio station website and then play the radio channel. You are allowed to record any part of radio by simply clicking the record button on the interface of Audacity.

Audacity can be used on Linux, Windows, and Mac. But it is a little inconvenient to output audio files into MP3, WMA, etc, as you need to install another Lame program.

Copying songs from online radio to mp3 directly

It is described on the internet that there is a streaming audio recorder which can not only record streaming sound from speakers but also save the audio files into MP3, AAC, OGG, etc.

So you need to find it via browsers and learn how to install it on your computer at first. Find you music and play it online and then go back to its interface to record it via clicking buttons.

A lot of programs with functions for ripping music from MySpace, YouTube, etc could be found on the internet and you can also apply them to rip BBC Radio, if you like to.