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Stream Ripper... Creeping me out

M

Mid West Clubber

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Someone in Italy has been recording my stream for the past 12 hrs... What do you think their motive is... Get me in trouble,,, steal my music for their own station... Should I ban this listener,, isnt stream ripper illegal?
 
Nevermind,, they dropped off and went to bed finally.
 
My station is a Hard Rock / Metal station and for whatever reason I get a huge following of listeners from Thailand, not sure why that is but for total minutes they are 3rd right behind US & UK....

A lot of times service folks will track down streams from home and use Ripper to archive the stations for playback when they are in the field etc...

I wouldn't freak out about it after all at least they are listening =)
 
Mid West Clubber said:
Someone in Italy has been recording my stream for the past 12 hrs... What do you think their motive is... Get me in trouble,,, steal my music for their own station... Should I ban this listener,, isnt stream ripper illegal?
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You can spend a lot of time and effort chasing down stream rippers and quite frankly it's not worth the effort. A lot of them are disguised and their user-agent appear genuine, they come in and out for a few hours etc. Most of the time the long listeners either have gone home and left iTunes running or turned the volume down and forgotten!

However you can make it difficult. I rotate my metadata, obfuscate it and don't send on a song change. That way if you do stream rip, you get minute files, not clean copies of the full song. Yup, there are ways round it, but at the end of the day you'll never stop 'em!
 
I use the Stream Ripper to record online stations so I can listen to them on my iPod. I have it rip the whole stream for hours and make one big file, not break it down to separate songs. I prefer hearing music in the form of radio stations than individual songs as what most people with iPods like. I don't like dead air between songs and unprocessed audio and I don't like hearing more than 3 songs by the same artist in a 3 hour period (I wish the iPod shuffle feature followed the DMCA law about that) and most of the songs I like are released as singles, not part of full albums. I don't like the random shuffle with equal rotation for all songs, I prefer the way radio stations are programmed with the hits getting more spins and the golds getting fewer spins. It also helps that my music taste follows the dance charts that most online dance stations also follow.
 
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