Ripping last.fm radio to separate mp3 files on Windows
September 6th, 2006 by 
Phil
(And if that’s not a title to reel them in from Google, I don’t know what is.)
Step 1) Install and download the last.fm proxy (requires Python)
Step 2) Follow the two-step configuration in the README
Step 3) Start the last.fm proxy and configure a radio station to listen to
Step 3) Download and start StreamRipper
Step 4) Configure the output location for your files
Step 5) Put http://localhost:1881/lastfm.mp3 into the URL box
Step 6) Click “Rip”
You will soon have a directory full of correctly named (but ID3-less) mp3 files.
You could always run them through musicbrains to get your ID3. Can you automate that for me too?
Posted by Anonymous on September 6th, 2006 at 10:31 pm-leff (I can never remember my blogger login)
same “fun” with pandora.com :
Posted by Anonymous on September 7th, 2006 at 8:40 amhttp://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_tips1391.html
leff – have you got more details on how to do that? I was trying a couple of days ago and failed miserably. If the files are named correectly then what I tend to do is use MediaMonkey to sort out the tags, however I also have some unnamed songs which I’d like MusicBrainz to sort out for me.
Cheers for the Pandora ripping link, Anon – the other alternative I’ve seen is http://pyrcast.com/index.html but I’ve not used either of them.
Posted by Pip on September 7th, 2006 at 9:33 amI’ve been doing a fair bit of Pandora ripping. It’s hardly ripping though, it’s copying a file from one directory to another before it gets deleted when you close the app.
There’s that Java-based thing, Pandora’s Jar, which can automate some of it but I found it was getting far too many songs named incorrectly – especially if I swapped channels – so I went the manual way and kept an eye on the files being downloaded.
Posted by Irregular Shed on September 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pm… but now I know about Pyrrha, I’m going to give that a go. Meant to say that but didn’t. Blimey, it’s hot for September…
Posted by Irregular Shed on September 7th, 2006 at 12:40 pmthanx for the article, though this message is abit late.. it was a big help, though i don’t that streamripper, i like the orignal console based version http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/
and i prefer to do it in linux with quite a few terminals open.
wget http://localhost:1881/skip
wget http://localhost:1881/ban
wget http://localhost:1881/love
wget http://localhost:1881/np < --refreshes
using the /rtp and /nortp and the end there will turn on or off the record to profile..
and thanx for your compliments on the pandora.jar we spent alot of time working on it…
Posted by joe wilson on November 19th, 2006 at 6:51 pmGreat, earlier i am use soundforge to cut different files =)
Posted by Dmitry on March 28th, 2007 at 9:25 amOr even better, just download StationRipper – http://www.stationripper.com which just will directly record/download last.fm!
Posted by Greg on March 20th, 2008 at 11:48 pmOr use LFMPlayer – http://www.indiji.com/lfmplayer – Player, Ripper, Slideshow, Lyrics, Naming, ID3-Tagging,..
Posted by Pascal on March 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pmlmao at the subtitle in parenthesis, so true, so true.
That’s how I got here
Posted by Taylor on June 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am