New software, techniques and cloud services now makes it possible to extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on separate audio tracks.
Many AM/FM stations simulcast online use the more efficient AAC format while Internet-only streams more typically use MP3[citation needed].
The Shoutcast database featured 34,281[1] online radio stations covering almost every conceivable music genre.
The device itself is simple enough: an XM "can" (the actual receiver and decoding hardware) is enclosed in a box with a USB interface chip and audio connector.
Notably, TimeTrax went on to extend its technology in a seamless package for FM radio, and further, any music source.
audio disambiguation, ripping and tagging, de-aggregation) for the three largest and widespread music distribution methods: satellite radio, Internet streaming and traditional broadcast.
Its popularity resulted in a corporation and formal management team along with funding focused on MacLean's work.
This data provides artist and title information that can be shown on the display of a compatible FM receiver.
This process can be tedious and time consuming, but has the advantage of being the only truly reliable way to ensure that the song is captured as accurately as possible without cutting off the beginning or end of a track.
The European Union passed in May 2001 the Information Society Directive which has since then been transposed into the national laws of most of the Member States.
Article 5 – 2/b of the directive states that "[Member States may provide for exceptions or limitations to the reproduction right provided for] in respect of reproductions on any medium made by a natural person for private use and for ends that are neither directly nor indirectly commercial, on condition that the rightholders receive fair compensation which takes account of the application or non-application of technological measures referred to in Article 6 [ie.
In case of a lawsuit against radio music ripping technologies, the whole debate will be about the meaning of the term "fair compensation".
Moreover, in an increasing number of EU member states, importers are charged a private copying levy on the purchase of recordable media (MP3 players, writable CDs or DVDs).