Easiest way to record Internet Radio & Shoutcast using wget

Do you want to save or record online radio stations to your hard disk?
Its no need to spend money on commercial software just to record online radio stations & shoutcast.All you need is a free command line download manager - wget,to save online stations on your disk.


Save / Record Internet Radio & Shoutcast using wget

Note: this method doesnt split or tag songs for you,if you just want to save the whole radio program,this one should definitely help you to do your job.



1. First,get wget binary here
2. Now you need to find the streaming URLs using URL sniffers/snoopers
or just search it in the playlist file (.pls) For example:
I want to record the radio from http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=437
download the playlist file and open it with notepad or other text editors,so I get several links out there,anyone of the links work,the one with least listeners are preferred because we can get more bandwidth to record the radio program.Now if I want to record this one: http://91.121.124.91:8006/
3. Execute wget from the cmd,and type

wget http://91.121.124.91:8006/

wget will start to record it,press Ctrl + C will stop the process
The recorded file is a .html file,change the file extension to .mp3 and you will be able to play it on media players.

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