The ex-architect from my group here at MSN has now released a beta for v1 of his new venture – SnapTune. To quote the website – “Snaptune One downloads songs, talk shows, interviews and live sessions directly from an FM radio to your computer automatically. Snaptune records what you want to hear to your hard drive – just the music with no repeats! It shows you a list of the songs playing on the radio as it finds them. Sort, play, write, burn*, or transfer to your iPod* or other media player.”
Basically, you can hook up either a USB FM receiver, or plug the audio out of your FM radio into your line-in on your soundcare. SnapTune will then “listen” to the radio stations you choose, and pick out the individual songs to save to your local machine. The software will then show you a bunch of information about each song it has saved, including Amazon reviews etc.
I love the idea, but I haven’t managed to try it yet (I don’t have a radio near my computer that I can plug in), but hope to give it a go soon. Leave me a comment if you try it, let me know what you think!
