I also use Station Ripper, I broke down and bought the legal copy.
Unlike the other's mentioned above, it saves the raw MP3 files.
If you right click on the station while streaming, under "file splitting", you can "pad around split point" a few seconds, or delay the switchover (at the top) from when the name changes.
Beware, though, this option seemed to want to stay engaged for me even after I zeroed out the times. I may have done something wrong, but my fix was to uninstall, delete the file directories (saving the songs) and re-install. It certainly is possible there was simply a file that needed to be deleted. If anyone else had this problem and and the fix I'm all ears.
I use this program to decide what music I want to go ahead and purchase, and then delete all ripped files from my hard drive in a short amount of time. I've seen the legality argued both ways. Apparently the law is clear on recording analog content, (you can) which made legal VHS TV and FM recording. But apparently less clear and open to discussion for digital content. If TIVO like devices provided by cable companies record digital content TV shows, why are internet audio stations any different? And why would recording my FM stations (analog) digitized to my sound card be OK, while internet streams not?
Bob
