captures the last five seconds you heard, decoded and held in memory.
saved straight from your browser's capture buffer. clearing rights for release use is on you.
radio-browser.info, a community-run directory of tens of thousands of internet radio stations, maintained the way a wiki is. each press of tune picks a random station from it.
the five-second cap is deliberate: enough for a texture or a scrap of speech, which is what the tool is for, and far too short to take a song off the air.
for private sketching and practice, yes. releasing is different: a radio moment can stack several rights at once (the song, the recording and the broadcast), so a recognizable melody or vocal needs clearing like any other sample, and radio grabs are often impossible to trace to a rights holder. unrecognizable texture, like static or distant chatter smeared under a beat, is the traditional and far safer use. clearing rights for release is on you; none of this is legal advice.
no. the stream is fetched and decoded in your browser, the five-second buffer lives in memory, and the WAV is written on your machine when you save. nothing passes through a server of ours.
the radio-as-texture tradition: transmission hiss and half-heard DJs folded into music, the way Burial used them. grab something, trim it, then take it to the slow-downer or pitch shift and work it into a track.