Listen to (and Record From) Streaming Internet Radio

It’s time to get your groove on, folks. Time to listen to some cool sounds while you surf the web and update your Facebook status. Time for the magic of streaming Internet radio.

But you don’t want just any streaming Internet radio. You want a small, free, lightweight player that sounds good and doesn’t use a lot of memory and system resources. You also want a player free of adware and spyware. In short, you want the Screamer Radio player.

Step One – Get the Screamer Radio Player

Download the Screamer Radio Player here, and install it. It’s very easy to set up. After installing it, run the program. You should see a very small, non-bloated window that looks like this:

You can click on the Presets menu to listen to a pre-loaded station, or you can use the File / Open URL dialog to listen to a station of your choosing.

Screamer Radio will also record, in MP3 or OGG format, the songs you’re listening to, placing each track into a separate file. You can use the Settings menu to tell the program the name of the folder in which you want it to store the recorded tracks.

Step Two – Add Some Cool Stations to Your Favorites

To get started, may I recommend two great streaming radio stations: Radio Paradise and SomaFM’s Secret Agent.

To add these stations to your Favorites, do the following:

Select "Open URL" from the File menu:

 

Then, put in the URL of a stream. Here are the two URLs for the stations mentioned above:

• http://somafm.com/secretagent.pls
• http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128xx.m3u

If these streams don’t work for you for some reason, visit the SomaFM or Radio Paradise to find several alternate URLs.

After you get a stream playing, add it to your Favorites by selecting "Add current station to Favorites" from the Favorites menu:

And remember – if you find that you like Screamer Radio as much as I do, don’t forget to make a donation to keep the project going!

Why to use Screamer Radio

• It’s easy to use
• It’s not bloated
• It’s ad free
• It has no spyware
• It has a huge database of radio stations
• It has a cool peak meter
• You can easily record what you’re listening to
• You can hide it in the system tray
• You can play back on multiple soundcards
• .. and it’s free!

Supported Stream Types

• Shoutcast and Icecast MP3 Streaming
• Icecast OGG Vorbis Streaming
• WMA Streaming
• AAC Streaming

Recording Features

• Recording buffer: start recording in the middle and still save the entire song!
• Direct MP3 Audio stream saving, no loss of quality!
• Direct OGG Vorbis stream saving, no loss of quality!
• Or encode OGG Vorbis as MP3 using Lame
• Encode WMA or AAC to MP3 using Lame