Record Shoutcast Streams in Winamp

Here are some instructions for recording winamp audio streams and internet radio streams into an mp3 file.

Steps

  1. Go to www.winamp.com
  2. Click the Plug-ins drop-down arrow box. Hover your mouse to "Browse Plug-ins".
  3. In the search bar, type the word "Lame".
  4. After you've found the Lame plug-in. Click it and download it.
  5. Install lame.
  6. Configure winamp under preferences. Click the small icon first at the top of Winamp menu and point your mouse to "Options" and click "Preferences".
  7. A preferences window will pop-up. Find "Plug-ins" and click on "Output". Find your installed Lame plug-in and click configure.
  8. Configure lame output dir and click OK.

  9. Click on the stream.



Tips

  • -> The latest method with Winamp5 is to use STREAMRIPPER (plugin) as it rips to single files, using post and pre-capture buffering/caching and uses the ID3 to create titles and proper sub-directory partitioning. You can set it to stop after x megabytes, a set-and-forget program and its free for WinAmp5 (2006/current load).

Warnings

  • Tends to default to c:\
  • LAME re-encodes the files resulting in a somewhat reduced quality.

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