Now that you can become a DJ & start broadcasting internet radio from your home PC, here is a light tool that can help you record & rip songs from online streaming media.

RipShout is a light free software that inludes a built in MP3 player & also rips songs from online streams . RipShout comes in with a few handy functionalities as well.

RipShout was written mainly to rip online songs & online audio from streaming broadcasts . Free Internet Broadcasts like SHOUTCast stream music & RipCast could save the broadcast onto your computer hard drive.

The free online song ripping software has 5 key features:

• rips & saves streaming online music onto computer hard drives as .mp3 files
• extracts IDv3 tags from the internet radio stations’ websites
• could run in Silent Mode & download online mp3 music in the background
• playback mp3 songs with the built in mp3 player
• append songs to WinAmp play list

RipShout is freeware, contains no ads or spyware and required about 3 megabytes of memory while recording. RipShout works with Microsoft Windows OS (Windows 2000, XP, and Vista). It needs the .NET framework to be able to work.

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