Radio Downloader
Radio Downloader is a utility to allow people to easily download radio station content.
It brings Podcast-like abilities to stream downloading, as well as handling Podcasts. This gives you the convenience of being able to subscribe to regular downloads of your favourite programmes, which you can then listen to on your pc or mp3 player.
Radio Downloader is supported on Windows XP, Vista and 7, and requires the .Net Framework 2.0, which you can get via Windows Update, or download from microsoft.com.
Radio Downloader is freely available for your personal use under the GPL.
or Download the Source Code
(Visual Basic Express 2008, Zip Archive).
Provider Support
Radio Downloader supports different types of content via plugins - the following plugins are currently included:
- BBC Radio
- Allows you to download radio programmes made available via the BBC iPlayer.
- Podcast
- Allows you to download files made available as attachments to RSS feeds.
Latest News
Radio Downloader 0.10
Today I have released version 0.10 of Radio Downloader. This release removes the final dependencies on the BBC's Real Audio streams by implementing re-encoding MP3 streams to different bitrates, and falling back to encoding AAC streams to MP3 if there are no MP3 streams available (such as currently for a number of episodes for users outside the UK).For full details of what has changed in this release, please see the changelog.
Radio Downloader and BBC Radio
I've recently become aware that most recently broadcast BBC Radio Programmes do not have either Real Audio or MP3 streams available for international users. This means that Radio Downloader is unable to download these programmes outside of the UK.I'm currently working on a solution, and I hope to release an updated version which will fix the problems for international users in the next few weeks. This issue doesn't affect UK based users.
Acknowledgements
Radio Downloader incorporates flvstreamer and MPlayer for stream downloading and LAME for mp3 conversion.
Questions or Problems?
For more information see the help page, or if you have a question you can check out the FAQ. If you have found a problem then you can report a bug.