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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
"if your appetite for music is insatiable"
Pros: You can rip song by song, or rip a station for x amount of time into a file. I put the songs or timed file on my mp3 player and listen wherever, whenever.
It's a great way to find music you want to buy or find out you don't want to buy something. Screening music, in other words.
If you rip, say, an hour of a radio station and listen to it on your portable player, you have portable commercial-free radio! Nice. (Or rip a bunch of hours. Just start the ripping and let it go.)
Cons: Some petty stations screw with the signal and mess up the ripping, but these are few and you have thousands of stations to choose from.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
Pros: I Dislike
Cons: Is Not complete
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
Pros: I don't like anything about the software.
Cons: It looks like it would be easy to use, but it certainly isn't. Nothing is intuitive. The online help is worthless (it doesn't even look like it's describing the program that I downloaded.) Whoever developed this software wasn't thinking about the user. I'm sure it's all clear in their mind, but none of that clarity get communicated to the user. Sorry I think this is a piece of crap.
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: StationRipper 2.25a
"Tons Of Free mp3s - LEGAL!!!"
Pros: First of all, this IS free. I've used it a ton (4,000 mp3s) for about one year, never paid (I don't know why it says you need to buy it-you don't). Download it from their website if you are asked to buy it here.
OK. Basically you search for music by genre/etc from a huge library of stations, pick up to 2 stations that sound good, and download the entire station. Leave this program on overnight. Some stations don't cut off the song ends properly... so find a station that does and stick to it. You can actually make the songs download extra material for the beginning/end to ensure you get the full song, but then you must manually cut the ends, which is time consuming.
As far as I know, this is the best legal way to get mp3s for free (maybe even the best, period). You can find popular songs, as well as rare songs.
Cons: As discussed above, the songs don't always begin/end at the correct point.
I would recommend leaving it on a single station for about a week or two, to make sure you get ALL the songs from that station (it gets about 80% of the mp3s the first pass, another 80% the next pass, and so on. Do the math.)
It is difficult to search for a single song. Use this program to get a lot of songs, then keep the ones you like.
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