Radio music ripping ||This article needs additional citations
for verification. (November 2008)| The term ripping (slang term
for digital media extraction) can also apply to radio. New
software, techniques and cloud services now makes it possible to
extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on
separate audio tracks. Available techniques make it possible to
rip the music from Internet radio broadcasts, satellite radio
broadcasts and FM radio broadcasts. Ripping is more than simply
recording the audio. The key aspect of ripping is
disambiguation. When ripping songs from any source, the songs
should be split into separate tracks or files, and the songs
should be tagged. Otherwise, you are simply recording or dubbing
the audio. Internet radio  Popular audio formats for internet
radio include AAC, AAC+, and MP3. Many AM/FM stations simulcast
online use the more efficient AAC format while internet only
stations more typically use MP3. The Shoutcast database featured
34,281  online radio stations