Griffin Technology has announced their iFill application. iFill records mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod. You can choose several stations at once and select from many different genres. And since iFill goes directly to your iPod, it won’t clutter up your hard drive with extra files. iFill can record several stations at once and fill your iPod in a fraction of the time.
With iFill, you can go to bed while charging your iPod, and wake up to an iPod full of new music, ready to go jogging with you, and without having to search through your record collection, browse the iTunes Store, or rip any CDs.
iFill is available for immediate download for US$19.99 and a temporary license key valid for a full week is available for those who wish to try out the application before buying.
iFill requires Mac OS X 10.3 / 10.4 or Windows XP SP2, an Internet connection, and an Apple iPod, iPod nano, iPod mini, or iPod shuffle.
More info and download link here.
I’ve always wanted an easy way to record creamyradio.com. Yum….
Thanks egarc. I’m checking out creamyradio now and it’s pretty good.
Hopefully its higher than 68kps.
Whoa! Read this little tidbit, under “iFill Features”:
“Fair Play — iFill does not support stealing music!”
No further information is given. Am I to assume that iFill uses iTunes’ FairPlay DRM?
I may be reading too much into this, as there’s a bit near the bottom urging users to be good guys and not redistribute the music, which wouldn’t be necessary if they were using DRM…
HEY, isn’t that the same as stealing downloads. If not then, why I need IFill for, when I can do the old way, swap files.
This looks interesting, but probably records radio streams in one continuous mp3 file, not individual songs. Time shifted radio, so to speak.
I miss Toxic Mindwarp Radio.
Wouldn’t using FairPlay require a licence from Apple? I have a feeling they’re just playing on the words to make a point.
No, no no no no nonononono….
It doesn’t use FairPlay DRM and you can definitely split MP3 broadcast music into separate audio clips. When the song title changes, you get a new file. If the station does fades between songs, the transitions are a little rough. The file data rate is whatever the station is broadcasting, so choose wisely.
yeah…. it rocks! I left it running overnight, and I had 355 songs to check out this afternoon……
nice!