SiriusXM has on-demand capability with its app, but not all of its shows are posted afterwards, so live recording is a great feature for listeners who want to record live material, keep personal collections, or put together personal playlists from streamed items.

In this guide, we'll walk through how to record SiriusXM in 2025, including modern tools, mobile apps, and even hardware solutions that let you keep what you hear. No jargon, no outdated methods - just plain talk and real-world advice that anyone can follow.

1 What Is SiriusXM Anyway?

Let’s start with a quick overview for newbies. SiriusXM is the big dog of satellite radio. It has hundreds of channels, exclusive shows, live DJ sets, rare interviews, and even original content you won’t find anywhere else. Unlike regular FM or AM radio, SiriusXM isn’t free. Buying a subscription gives you access to in-car bundles, standalone plans, or streaming.

I’ve been riding with SiriusXM since the days when I had to use a physical receiver and an old PC sound card to record anything at all. Now, in 2025, things have changed. Most people stream it through apps on their phones or laptops, but the problem remains the same: how do you save what you’re hearing without it crashing or locking up midstream?

So yeah, if you want to save something cool, read on. Because I'm going to show you several ways to record SiriusXM streams on your computer, smartphone, and even satellite broadcasts on a hardware recorder.

2 Difficulty Recording Satellite Radio

To be fair, SiriusXM wasn’t built for local recording. Their entire business model is based on streaming access only, meaning that if you cancel your subscription, you lose everything.

They offer on-demand episodes of certain shows, but not every track or mix is archived. Some things just play once and disappear, like a ghost in the digital ether. One day they were there. The next day they were gone forever.

Also, unlike regular radio stations or podcasts that offer MP3 streams, SiriusXM uses secure streaming, meaning you can’t just save the audio stream to disk.

As of late, podcasts and some on-demand shows are available for download for offline listening. Episodes with music content are NOT available for download, and they are not available in the web player. All saved downloads are available in the library and cannot be transferred to another device.

So how do you get regular audio files? It looks like you need to resort to the good old solution of writing down what you hear.

3 Capture SiriusXP using Audio Recorder

If you're using a Windows computer, you can listen to SiriusXM via the desktop app, web player, or browser. In this case, i-Sound Recorder offers the most functionality. It records everything your system plays, and the SiriusXM stream is no exception.

The recording process is as follows:

• Open SiriusXM in your browser or desktop app, log in, and load the channel.
• Launch i-Sound Recorder and make sure it's set to capture from "Speakers" rather than the microphone input.
• Select an output format, usually MP3 at 160 kbps for a good balance between quality and file size.
• Turn on VOX mode to skip silence during commercial breaks or downtime.
• Click "Record", start playing the stream, and boom, you've got an audio file saved locally.

This method stands out for its ability to bypass dynamic URLs and DRM blocks, meaning you don’t have to worry about links expiring or formats changing while recording.

No complicated steps, no command line scripts – just install, play, hit record and that’s it. And you don’t have to fiddle with virtual audio devices or find a sound card with Stereo Mix support.

Add to that an advanced recording scheduler, music recognition and easy management of your recording library with the built-in editor. Am I missing something?

4 Record SiriusXM with Mobile Apps

Almost all streaming platforms have already added a recording blocker on mobile devices. SiriusXM has not done so yet, but I think this loophole will be closed soon.

To record SiriusXM stream on Android, you can use the built-in screen recorder, which depends on the device/manufacturer

• Swipe down from the top to open the Quick Settings menu, where you can see the screen recording option. Make sure the SiriusXM app is open and the content you want to record is ready.
• Tap the Screen Recording button, then turn on some recording options to start screen recording on Android. Once you are done, swipe down from the top and then tap Stop to finish.
• The recorded SiriusXM is saved to your device's gallery.

Similarly, on iPhone, use the built-in screen recorder:

• First, open the SiriusXM content on your iPhone. You can use the native app or open the web version.
• Then swipe down from the top-right corner for iPhone X and later, or swipe up from the bottom corner for older models, to open Control Center, where you'll see more actions.
• From there, tap the Screen Recording button to start recording SiriusXM on your iPhone. Later, tap the Red Status Bar at the top and select Stop.
• Screen recordings are automatically saved to your photo library in the Photos app.

Either way, recording on smartphones isn't exactly the most convenient. And considering the battery drain that it causes, I'd consider this a last resort.

5 Hardware Hack for SiriusXM

What if you didn't need a computer or internet at all? Well, that's a thing, and it's been around for over 20 years. Delphi XM2GO MyFi Portable SiriusXM Recorder can be found on eBay for a few dozen dollars, and it's the closest thing you'll get to a voice recorder made specifically for SiriusXM.

It looks like a cross between an old cell phone and an early 2000s MP3 player, but inside it has a dedicated SiriusXM tuner that records directly to flash memory. I don't have one on hand right now, so I'll just describe it from memory.

It's more like a DVR in operation. You just have to connect it to your SiriusXM account. You can then schedule the MyFi to record a few hours of audio to local memory, then listen to it later. When listening to the recorded content, you can easily skip to the next song (the recording retains the metadata). That was cool before your phone could play Spotify.

The big advantage of the XM2GO was that it recorded directly from the satellite (when connected to an external antenna), meaning it wasn't dependent on Wi-Fi or buffering.

It also had better fidelity than most loop captures - because it didn't record what the app was playing, but captured the signal directly from the satellite feed (like modern downloaders).

But frankly, unless you're into antique collecting, it's a bit overkill, especially when the software tools work just fine.

6 Some Interesting Facts

Not All Streams Are Equal – Bitrate Varies by Device

I noticed that the audio quality from the desktop app was slightly better than from the mobile app - probably due to different encoding paths.

Ads Can Ruin Clean Cuts – Silence Doesn’t Mean Nothing

Sometimes, ads come in as pure silence or with ultra-low volume - which messed with my VOX settings. Eventually, I learned to tweak sensitivity so it wouldn’t stop recording during soft vocal lines or ambient instrumentals.

Some Shows Get Removed Forever - No Archives, No Repeats

A few exclusive shows drop once and vanish - no on-demand, no repeat broadcasts.

7 Conclusion

SiriusXM is not a streaming service from which music is usually recorded. However, the volume of unique content is so large that it will always find its listener. And therefore, there will always be people who want to save it for their personal archive.

Thanks to simultaneous broadcasting via the Internet and satellites, SiriusXM provides many more recording options. And some of them are unique. I considered most of them and settled on i-Sound Recorder, since I regularly surf the Internet and listen to recordings in the car from a flash drive. It was also great for recording iTunes Radio. Well, which option is more suitable for you - decide for yourself.

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