Snowtape: Record Internet Radio
Snowtape is an Internet radio app that provides listening, recording and exporting functionality. The interface is pleasing to the eye, and features such as limiting display of stations by bit rate are very useful for those on limited bandwidth. The main feature set works quite well, and it’s much lighter on system resources than Songbird when all I want to do is listen to a radio stream.
It splits songs into individual files when the next one starts, and offers an option to never record ads. Recorded tracks can be exported as MP3 of AAC, with an option to add the resulting songs to iTunes or simply to export them to a chosen folder. It also provides a non-destructive audio editor and allows modification of a number of metadata fields before exporting. Snowtape goes another step further than most Internet radio recording applications and also assigns album art to each file.
It’s unfortunate that Snowtape stores files as AIFF until you click the “Export to folder” button (a 1-click process). It would be much preferred to have them stored as AAC or MP3, especially since they aren’t critical data for most people and therefore wouldn’t need to be exported to a different format other than the one the user has set in their preferences. If there is another reason to keep them stored in AIFF, I’m not seeing it.
Upon checking the Snowtape website, it seems as though the dev is adding features on a regular basis. Recording multiple streams at once would be nice, but it’s not something I’m pining too terribly for.
It costs US$29.00, or US$39.00 for a family pack.