Timeshifted radio

I very rarely listen to music on the radio, or live radio at all. I am usually listening to Old Time Radio, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or audiobooks/lectures in .mp3 format. I also listen to BBC shows downloaded from news:alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc and CBC shows downloaded from news:alt.binaries.sounds.radio.misc.

When I do listen to local radio it is time-shifted: I rip radio shows off the air, encode them to mp3 and listen to them when/where I want to.

What it takes

A tuner of some kind. I am use an ISA-based Radio Reveal 300 card I got off eBay for $10 (including shipping). It picks up a bit of noise; I will eventually replace it with a USB tuner that will be situated farther from the PC.
Tuning software to schedule the recordings. I use the excellent freeware radiator.
A decent mp3 encoder. I use LAME; pre-built binaries are widely available.

I am currently trying to work around some minor problems.

Adjacent/abutting shows: radiator does not handle overlapping shows, and the defaults don't help this situation. Hour-long shows must be taped for 0:59:59; if you do it for 1:00:00 the adjacent show will not record.
Radiator writes to a tempfile, then copies this tempfile over to the output file after recording. This means you've got to allow enough time for the show to terminate, copy the file over, and start taping the next show. I've started ending shows a bit earlier (like 10-30 seconds) to allow for this housekeeping and this seems to work fine. Note that .wav files will be larger than .mp3 files, so leave longer time for those.