BroadClip.com - Finds and Delivers Music to Your iPod

You could call BroadClip's MediaCatcher Tivo for your music. This crafty, yet potentially legally questionable app actually lets you capture music from online music stations and transfer it right into your iPod or any other portable player. All you've got to do is enter the type of music you want into the search box. Give MediaCatcher 24 hours to search for your goods. Afterwards, clip the music you want to save from the Active Searches page and MediaCatcher will pop open iTunes and deliver the tracks straight to your iPod. Basically, BroadClip offers 'legal' stream ripping (they claim the RIAA is totally fine with the service). They'll scan over 20,000 radio stations to find the kind of music you want and tell your computer to record it to your hard disk.

"Right now,music you want is playing on some of the 18,000+ radio stations on the Internet. But it's impossible to sift through the endless choices looking for your musical nirvana. BroadClip's free MediaCatcher software lets you easily find and enjoy this music on your iPod, Cell phone, or other portable media player."

This time and place shifting concept for internet radio sounds pretty neat. BroadClip will actually go on and find the music you want and deliver right to your mobile listening device—other sites don't do this, or they do but it's not free. Unlike sites like Last.fm, you can specifically request songs, and you aren't tied down to a highspeed internet connection.

BroadClip is cool enough, but there are plenty of legal issues that the app seems to gloss over. They say its like Tivo for internet radio, however stream ripping tech steps into murky waters—the RIAA wants it blocked. Will BroadClip survive intact?