I seem to recall that I’ve read about some applications for both Mac and
Windows that let you capture a streaming audio source to a file so you can
listen to it later, slice it up, mail an excerpt to your parents, whatever.
Anyone have a clue what kind of software does this, and perhaps a few
pointers to specific applications I could download?

I polled a couple of colleagues for help with this question and here’s what I found out…

Phil says that TotalRecorder will capture anything that plays to your speakers in Windows. There’s also a utility floating around call ASFRecorder that will grab Microsoft audio streams
straight off the net (violating the stream-only rule, I think). I think it violates (and
predates) the DMCA, so it may be hard to find. (Hint: I’ve got it around here somewhere.)
Comes with source code. I don’t know about a util for RealAudio, though. TotalRecorder works for it, but it has
to go through…

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