Want free, high quality, legal music without DRM?


(newest version is v1.6, updated 6/10/09)

It is possible with SimpleRipper in 3 simple steps. According to Applian's Legal FAQ, recording internet radio for personal use is legal and the RIAA will not "come after you".

Do NOT share the music you obtain by recording internet radio with anyone -- you do not have the rights to distribute copyrighted music. You are only "timeshifting" the streaming music by recording it to listen to later. However, I am not a lawyer and it is your sole responsibility to make sure you are using this application and the music you obtain from it for only legal uses.

This program cannot be used to bypass any DRM schemes, as it was designed to only record music from unencrypted streams such as shoutCAST and icecast using StreamRipper.


This program is completely free, and has no limitations on the number of songs or stations you can record from. This program contains NO spyware or malware. I notice that a Google search for "SimpleRipper" comes up with many spyware/malware results, but this SimpleRipper tool is not it!

Download for Windows here: SimpleRipper-v1.6.zip

Download Visual Basic 2008 Source Code Here: SimpleRipper-v1.6-Src.zip

This program requires Windows Vista or XP, StreamRipper, and the latest .NET Framework.

This program is free, but if you like what I do, I highly appreciate donations ($1 is great!) :)


Creative Commons License
SimpleRipper by Jeremy Vight is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at simpleripper.phr00t.com.

Contact me and see my other projects @ www.phr00t.com