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Softpedia Editor's Review for Online Radio Tuner
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Tune in and record online radio stations and record
Written by Bogdan Popa on December 13th, 2011
Nowadays, most audio players available out there come with dedicated tools to allow users listen to online radio stations, so why use a separate application just for this purpose?
Well, mostly because Online Radio Tuner has so many great things to offer beside the main tool to tune in your favorite radio station.
The application has a very simple interface that shows the name of the station and the song you're listening to, along with the album art if that is possible. Plus, there are the common song control buttons to play and stop the music, but also a dedicated tool to record what you hear as MP3.
And the recording utility is one of the most useful goodies of the app because it's able to track the content you are listening to and, if you wish, start the recording per se at the next song change.
Of course, it can also stop the recording when the song comes to an end, so it's quite easy to save your favorite songs on the local disk.
There's a rich presets menu that includes tons of radio stations from all over the world. All entries are grouped in three different categories: broadcast networks, genre and region, so it's quite easy to find the one you like. In addition, there's also a search tool to make things even easier.
As for configuration, Online Radio Tuner has a comprehensive options menu that comprises settings for auto updates, network settings, recording profiles, scheduling and hotkeys to control the app without even opening it.
The best thing about the application is probably the recording tool that worked flawlessly during our test and may really come in handy to many of you. On the other hand, the downside is the fact that the user cannot add his very own stations in the list, so in case the one he likes is not in the built-in list, there's no way to include it.
Overall, Online Radio Tuner is a pretty good solution to listen to your favorite radio stations, but paying that much for this kind of application might scare some of the users.
Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Online Radio Tuner
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Online Radio Tuner description
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Here are some key features of "Online Radio Tuner":
· Playlist support: PLS, M3U, ASX, WPL, WAX, WMX
· Audio format support: MP3, WMA, OGG and AAC(+)
· Arrange the layout of the application
· Many presets available from start, over 800
· Presets updateable from central server
· Save your favorite radio stations and manage them easily
· Minimize to the System Tray
· Notify song changes by balloon tip or MSN-like notifier.
· Show others what you are listening to in MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger
· Record what you hear as MP3's
· View the album art of the song currently playing*
· Each user has its own favorites/settings
· Startup parameters to record your favorite station, making it easy to schedule a recording
· Free Email support
· Global hotkey support
· Scheduled recording
· Color schemes supporting the new Office 2007 colors
· Writing ID3 v1 and/or v2 tags to the recorded files
· 5 Quick Favorite buttons
Requirements:
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
· Internet Connection
Limitations:
· 30 days trial What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· You can now only report non-working presets using the latest Preset DB
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