Stream Harvester is a new program that has been released by the developer in an early stage of development. The program currently supports recording the playlist formats pls and m3u if they link to the media formats mp3, ogg or nsv. That covers most of the Internet radio streams on popular services like Shoutcast or Icecast.

The Internet radio recorder offers a semi-automatic approach. New radio stations need to be added to the program manually. One interesting option here is to select different storage locations for the recorded radio streams.

Every radio station that has been added this way is then listed in the program’s main interface which contains the options to manage the recordings.

It is here possible to start and stop the recording of individual radio stations. Stream Harvester can record multiple stations at once, the only limit is defined by the user’s Internet connection and PC.

One interesting feature is the relay option which can relay a stream so that it can be accessed by another application on the same computer system as well.

Stream Harvester is a simple program that can be used to easily record multiple Internet radio stations at once. The software program is compatible with Windows and Linux and can be downloaded from the Google Code project website.

The tools main features are:

Record Shoutcast Audio and Video streams, and Podcasts
Records up to 600 streams at one time
Auto-download Album art

Integrate with iTunes – auto-generate iTunes playlists of songs recorded.
Keeps track of the songs you’ve already recorded, only keeping the songs you don’t already have.

Lots more on the official homepage that I posted above. The authors claim that they´ve been able to download more than 2000 songs in a period of 3,5 hours recording multiple streams at once. Just add your favorite stations from shoutcast.com and give it a try.

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