Ripping last.fm radio to separate mp3 files on Windows

(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.

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10 thoughts on “Ripping last.fm radio to separate mp3 files on Windows”

  1. You could always run them through musicbrains to get your ID3. Can you automate that for me too? 😉
    -leff (I can never remember my blogger login)

  2. 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.

  3. I’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.

  4. … 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…

  5. thanx 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…

  6. lmao at the subtitle in parenthesis, so true, so true.

    That’s how I got here

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