TimeTrax: Record MP3s from XM Radio

Posted on August 13, 2004

It was only a matter of time: NeroSoft TimeTrax is a new app that lets you rip songs from the XM-PCR XM radio adapter for your PC into MP3 files. $20 to register.

Now, from a technical perspective this is no great feat — as I’ve written before, there are lots of third-party software clients for the XM-PCR, and the only thing stopping any of them from adding recording (since they all have access to the audio bitstream) has been a kind of gentlemen’s agreement between XM and the PCR hacking community that the hackers wouldn’t make life complicated by doing something that forced lawyers to get involved. But the yahoos behind TimeTrax seem not to have gotten the memo on that, so if you have any interest at all in this program, I advise you to get it now before the hordes of attack attorneys swoop in…