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Here's a program some of you might enjoy. Suppose you're listening to your favorite Shoutcast stream (such as Groove Salad or SmoothJazz), and you hear a song you really like, and you'd like to save that song to your hard drive, so you can replay it until you buy your own CD.

What you want, my friend, is StreamRipper 32: an Open Source program. (Open Source is better than free). I tried it and it really works. Except, by the time I downloaded and installed the thing, the song was over. =(

Configuration is simple. Click the little button beside the Destination box in order to tell SR32 where to save your streams. Click the little down-arrow beside the Genre box and select your favorite genre. Then click the Refresh List button. Everything else should be self-explanatory (e.g. Start Rip and Stop Rip).

If you'd like, you can also convert these MP3s to WAV files and burn them as an ordinary CD audio disc. You might also find this link helpful. Every good geek should have a copy of StreamRipper in his arsenal. If this kind of info interests you, you might also enjoy the world-famous (infamous) Radified Guide to Ripping & encoding CD audio, which will show you how to creeate MP3s of much higher quality than you can download from Shoutcast.