IGetMusic Helps You Find, Record, and Save Music

IGetMusic ($40; ten-day free, feature-limited trial) is an interesting app that listens to Internet radio stations for you and turns their streaming music into numerous portable M4A files, which can be played on most MP3 players. iTunes or other music apps can convert these into MP3 files, if you wish, for total portability. Unfortunately, this isn't one of those easy-to-use, launch-and-go apps.

Configuring iGetMusic is a massive pain. First, you have to modify the Internet settings of your browser and add a proxy, which allows the app to capture the specific Internet music Web sites that iGetMusic supports. Then, you have to restart your browser with the new settings. Then, start the iGetMusic app and choose a folder--but folders like "iTunes Music" will trip up the app as it can't handle spaces in folder names. (If you try, it'll instead create a new folder and truncate the rest--in this case, a folder named iTunes.) Also, you have to type in a genre of music that matches the station to which you'll ...

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Steve Horton