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As if there wasn’t enough piracy on the internet, Griffin Technologies is essentially turning your iPod into a tape deck (I wonder what sort of litigation this is going to bring). With its new program, iFill, you can now record your favorite internet radio stations directly onto your iPod.  iFill allows you to determine the number of megabytes to use for recording and then you can choose any number of internet stations that you want to record.

My immediate concern was that I didn’t want to have 1 track that was 3 hours long but do not fear iFill divides up each track and labels them appropriately with the artist and song name.  Some tracks catch the next 3 seconds of the next song playing on the station but it is not that big of a deal.

Too good to be true? Well there are a few improvements that can be made… real-time recording is a huge down-side. No one really wants to sit and wait as their iPod fills up with new songs, but if you are working on your PC, might as well leave it hooked up. Secondly, it allows for duplicates. They could vastly improve this by detecting songs that you already have on your player and not allowing duplicates rather than having to go in manually and deleting them yourself.

All in all, it’s a great idea but can definitely be refined. The one week trial is definitely worth the shot, and if you enjoy it, its only a one time $20 fee! Record away, but watch out because the RIAA might be right around the corner.

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