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About a month or so ago, I lauded the EMI record label right in this very website for deciding to offer their music without any more digital rights management (DRM) encryption. These tracks would initally be available through iTunes, Apple Computer's trendy music download site. I even singled out Steve Jobs for a job well done insofar as his open letter to the record companies asking them to remove DRM.

I must admit though that even in my sudden show of public affection for a record company, I still felt in the back of my mind that there may still be a catch in here somewhere. As a former program director, I've dealt with record companies enough to know how shrewd and pushy they are when doing business.

Then on Jun 05, I read an Associated Press (AP) news item entitled "Concerns Emerge Over iTunes User Data". The empire may indeed still be striking back.

The nice thing about streaming internet radio stations is that you'll hear a lot of music that you won't regularly hear on commercial radio stations. I enjoy listening to chill music and aside from a weekly syndicated radio show dedicated to this kind of music, there is no commercial radio station playing this form of music. Lucky for me, there are a lot of internet stations playing this.

The problem is when I'm in my car, I don't have access anymore to my favorite chill stations. So what I do is I download (or "grab" or "rip") the stream, save it on my hard disk and burn it onto a CD-ROM which I can play in my car's mp3 player.

If this sounds like something you'd like to try, let me share with you the steps and the free software (for Windows) that I use to transfer the internet radio stream into something I can enjoy whenever I'm mobile.