It’s sad that so often we have to preface cool and useful software with a sort of ‘Get it while you can,’ warning, but this looks like just the sort of thing the RIAA is going to come after with crate full of lawyers. TimeTrax is a $20 piece of software that can turn your $50 XM Satellite Radio XM PCR – a PC-based XM radio, if you didn’t catch that – into a sort of satellite radio PVR-like-thing-but-no-video. It listens to the radio stream you set (and you can schedule shows in the future), then using XM’s song title data converts individual songs into MP3s or WAVs. Now that sounds like Fair Use to me, and fairly useful at that, but we’ll see how long it takes before Valenti draws a direct like between TimeTrax and the dissolution of the very fabric of our culture.
Read – Product Page [NeroSoft]
