Even tho the interface is quirky, radiolover works effeciently once you get the hang of it. The main draw of this application is the fact that you can record lots of stations concurrently. If you are doing one thing at a time you can get better control with the other two apps - audio hijack and wiretap.

1. drag a few radio stations from itunes onto the main window. This is what hung me up for awhile.
2. click the listen icon on a station to determine when you want to start recording.
3. click the start recording to begin recording a station. Radio lover then tells itunes to open a stream. This stream will work independent of what you may be listening to in itunes.
4. Start as many recording streams as you want up the limit of six or whatever it is.
5. Listen in to the stations you are recording either from Radio lover's interface or from itunes. The listen icon is a toggle and seems to get confused, but it works fine dispite it's appearance

I have a folder of radio stations in itunes that I use so I can switch between itunes and radio lover to keep track of what's going on.

Radio lover is pretty good at spliting tracks if the radio station sends the data. Some stations don't so with those you end up with one long recording. I use mp3 trimmer to go clean them up as well as the DJ and commercial junk that gets added to split tracks.