RadioZilla

The Internet is giving everyone the possibility to enjoy all kinds of entertainment like music, movies, pictures, games, and even radio stations, which now travel through the information superhighway and are far from being obsolete. In this regard, RadioZilla comes packed with tons of different stations for you to find the favorite one and listen to it for hours on end.

When it runs, the interface might seem a little shallow, with the whole thing built on the classic window design from the last decade. On the other hand, this makes accommodation a walk in the park, with a large area for display, as well as two navigation panels, one for genres, and one for stations.

The first thing anyone does in this situation is take a look at the genre table, with a lot of different types, such as alternative, blues, classical, decades, country, easy listening, inspirational, latin, new age, reggae, rock, and a lot more. If this isn’t enough, some can even be split in more categories. Take international for instance, which bundles up radios almost from all around the world.

Whenever a category is selected, all stations are displayed in the list below. There aren’t any kind of built-in filters so you can get rid of invalid ones, nor is there a simple numbering system to remember the favorite one. In any case, if the connection is successful, you start hearing sound shortly after selecting a station.

Oh, the large are for display mentioned in the first paragraph is actually used to retrieve album art whenever possible. It also shows the artist and title, with changes made according to your Internet connection, which can mean really quick. Sadly, you can’t grab any of the album arts.

What’s more, you can press the Save button and make the application record songs for you. Truth be told, the algorithm used to differentiate songs works pretty well, with the recording being interrupted whenever sound drastically changes.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that RadioZilla is a neat application to keep around if you easily get bored of what’s on the radio you usually listen to. Sadly, you can’t add any radio stations, and there’s a high chance a lot of them don’t even work anymore. Overall, it’s worth a try, especially because of the built-in recorder.