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Record individual radio songs to MP3 player

Traxcatcher

Engadget published a short writeup I filed today that broke some pretty interesting news:

TimeTrax, the company that lets you record and time-shift your XM or Sirius Radio satellite subscriptions, announced the TraxCatcher, a device that lets you record over-the-air FM radio, capture songs as MP3s, and create a free music library. It should work for talk radio programs as well.

This will be the first device that lets you record over-the-air FM radio and capture individual songs.

The RIAA may not like it, but given the long history of people recording over-the-air FM broadcasts onto cassette tape, it's hard to see Congress stepping in and making the practice illegal.

Cross-posted to New Media Musings.

January 6, 2006 at 04:21 PM in Digital rights & copyright, Music | Permalink | Comments (0) | Bookmark this entry on del.icio.us | blog comments on this post (0)

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