ChiliRec allows anyone to record songs from any of hundreds of online radio stations, organize them for later use and download them to a computer or portable audio device. Anyone who is familiar with the old school method of taping songs of of FM radio is familiar with the concept, although they never had it so good as this.
After waiting for a five minute buffer to load, you're ready to start recording. But unlike the old FM/cassette method, there's no need to record the beginning of every single song manually, or even to select a specific channel to record from with ChiliRec. The site takes care of all that stuff, leaving you to enjoy (and capture) the music piping through over 350 online music webcasts. No downloadable application is required.
ChiliRec records everythingthat's playing on all of your selected channels (it's worth honing yourchannel selections as you go so that you're more likely to want thesongs that are getting pulled in). Watch the list of songs in the upperright window and double-click or drag-and-drop anything that looksgood. Those appear in the lower pane and begin playing immediately,
right from the beginning. Don't like how it sounds? Delete it and dropin another.
Once you have a decent playlist stored up from the songs you'vecherrypicked and approved, you can save it for later playback. Or, byclicking the disk icon next to any recorded track, you can download itto your computer in the MP3 format for later listening or syncing to adevice. The sound quality can be pretty decent, depending on thestation (we ended up with 128 Kbps MP3 files). All of recordings are searchable by song title, artist orgenre.
All of the above stuff can be done without even creating a user account, butif you want to be able to access your recordings and playlists fromanother computer, you'll need to register. Once you've been using itfor a few days, certain songs will show up in personalized charts –
these are the songs that are played the most on the channels you'veselected. After a brief test period, I'm pretty impressed with ChiliRec.
(Thanks, Kyle)
