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“Like TiVo® for radio” is the most common way we hear it described.

We’re talking about the RadioTime online directory, combined with software such as RedButton (Windows) or Rogue Amoeba’s Radioshift (Mac), which allows you to schedule recordings of radio shows for listening later.

As the Random Precision Radio Network expands — five affiliate stations so far — we’ve turned to RadioTime to help us track our growing number of air dates and times for our weekly “Floydian Slip” show in a single space.

The real power of the directory comes when you combine it with one of many software or hardware products that use the directory to allow listeners to schedule weekly recordings of the program.

Desktop recording is just one option. Many mobile solutions allow you to tune in, capture streams and listen later on your cellphone.

We have no affiliation with Radiotime or any of the products it powers, but wanted to give them a shoutout as a great way to make sure you don’t miss a single episode of “Floydian Slip.”

L’Osservatore Romano, the unofficial newspaper of the Vatican, has published a list of its top album picks of all time. Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) made the list.

Also on the paper’s list of desert island discs are: “Thriller,” Michael Jackson; “Revolver,” The Beatles; “Graceland,” Paul Simon; “Supernatural,” Carlos Santana; “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” David Crosby; “Rumours,” Fleetwood Mac; “The Nightfly,” Donald Fagen; “Achtung Baby,” U2; and “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory,” Oasis.

Though the image of Pope Benedict XVI, earbuds in place, chillin’ to “Dark Side” is irresistible, we’re told El Papa isn’t actually consulted on these types of lists and entertainment reviews the paper has recently been publishing with increasing frequency.