My nephew is gonna be on the radio tonight. I'd like to record the stream either from iTunes or from my web browser.
What are my options to accomplish that?
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I tried both streams like you did and at first I received the same results you did. BBC Radio 6 showed up in the music but The Current didn't appear to.
Then, I tried typing "The Current" into the iTunes search box while Music was selected in the sidebar. The result: The Current from Minnesota Public Radio pops up as the first and only search result in the iTunes main menu.
What I believe it that because this radio listing contains a blank album and artist field, iTunes gets a bit confused but ends up placing them "somewhere" amongst your other entries with blank album and/or artists fields. It can appear to be lost there because there doesn't appear to be any particular order those entries are sorted by-default. (I am almost certain you can do something about that if you really wanted.)
IF you are still interested in seeing your music with those streams, I would recommend just creating a smart playlist that excludes them. Try this a the rule to use in the smart playlist (Cmd-Opt-N to bring up its dialog, btw):
"(Kind) (is not) (Internet audio stream)"
Hope this was helpful.
-b
Analog Source over Line-In → iTunes Match: It works! Kind of.
I just ran my experiment. While I don't have a cassette player handy, I did have the means to make a reasonably good quality analog recording to try with iTunes Match, as follows:
I used this old CD player:
And this excellent CD:
I plugged the CD player into my Windows* PC's blue audio input (line in) with this cable:
I recorded the entire CD using EAC's "Record WAV" feature. Then, I split up the resulting single, large WAV file into individual WAV files (using EAC's "Process WAV" menu item.) I judged the track boundaries by eye/ear, and I ended up within a second or two of the actual track lengths reported elsewhere.
I compressed the WAVs into MP3 using EAC w/LAME.
I renamed and copied the resulting MP3 files to my Mac.
I added the MP3s to iTunes, and then added them to iCloud. After a few minutes, iTunes Match finished doing its thing, and 10 of 11 tracks were Matched. Proof:
Summary
It doesn't appear that a strictly digital-sourced (i.e. ripped) MP3 input is required for iTunes Match to succeed (somewhat) at matching. However, I did make sure line levels were appropriate during recording to avoid clipping, and though my recording was analog, the source is high quality.
What I still don't know is if iTunes Match would work with audio cassette, LP, or FM-sourced audio. Does anybody care to run a follow-up experiment? :-)
* (my apologies for using Windows for the recording part of this experiment. I'm not yet familiar with audio recording/editing on the Mac.)
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Best Answer
VLC has an option for listening to network streams, so if VLC is compatible with the stream that you want to listen to it also offers an option for saving that stream to your HD. In the dialog box that lets you enter the stream URL there is a drop down menu by the OPEN button that lets you save the stream.
Of course this does depend on if VLC will open the specific stream you want it to. Many streaming services use special players and DRM to prevent such things. Failing the VLC method Tetsujin has an excellent recommendation in Audio Hijack as it doesn't care about any of that and just records all the audio passing through your Mac.