This is the quick and dirty HOW TO for the Winamp plug-in of Streamripper. The following steps should get you going to ripping a stream.

1. Install Streamripper for Winamp.
2. Go to shoutcast.com, icecast.org, or live365.com, and click on a stream
3. Winamp AND Streamripper should come up.
4. The stream should be playing in Winamp, if it's not, click Play
5. On the top of Streamripper, notice it says "Press start to rip http://something:port
6. Click "start". Hope it works.

If you don't have a fat pipe (cable modem/dsl, T1, etc..) you'll want to use Streamripper "relay server". If you don't use this, Streamripper will make another connection to the stream you're listening too, effectively doubling your bandwidth usage. This is a feature that allows you to listen to the stream you're ripping through Streamripper.

To setup a relay server follow these steps.

1. Click on Options.
2. Check "Create relay stream" [note: as of 1.2 this is on by default]
3. Click ok
4. You'll now notice a link that says "Add relay to playlist" on the Streamripper window
5. Start ripping the stream as normal
6. Once the stream has gotten past the "buffering" stage. Click on "add relay to playlist". Winamp should now have an entry for your relay server in its playlist.
7. In Winamp double click on the relay, which should be labeled something like "localhost:8000" or something similar.
8. Winamp will now be playing "through" Streamripper

I hope this works out for you, if not drop me a line at jonclegg@yahoo.com