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Note: While Radioshift has been discontinued, it is still available to download for users that already hold a license.
Radioshift lets you listen to and record internet radio.
Like a personal video recorder (PVR) for radio, Radioshift enables internet and AM/FM radio to be recorded automatically and listened to at any time.
Radioshift can be used to explore and listen to over 100,000 radio listings from around the world. Audio can be subscribed to and automatically recorded. As well, users can listen live to thousands of RealAudio,
Radioshift lets you listen to and record internet radio.
Like a personal video recorder (PVR) for radio, Radioshift enables internet and AM/FM radio to be recorded automatically and listened to at any time.
Radioshift can be used to explore and listen to over 100,000 radio listings from around the world. Audio can be subscribed to and automatically recorded. As well, users can listen live to thousands of RealAudio,
What's New
Version 1.6.7:
- A bug, introduced in Radioshift 1.6.6, where old versions of Radioshift Helper were not properly removed from Login Items has been corrected.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:27,638 |
| Version Downloads:3,523 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:13 Sep 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $32.00 |
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Note: While Radioshift has been discontinued, it is still available to download for users that already hold a license.
Radioshift lets you listen to and record internet radio.
Like a personal video recorder (PVR) for radio, Radioshift enables internet and AM/FM radio to be recorded automatically and listened to at any time.
Radioshift can be used to explore and listen to over 100,000 radio listings from around the world. Audio can be subscribed to and automatically recorded. As well, users can listen live to thousands of RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, and MP3 streams, all in one player.
Radioshift lets you listen to and record internet radio.
Like a personal video recorder (PVR) for radio, Radioshift enables internet and AM/FM radio to be recorded automatically and listened to at any time.
Radioshift can be used to explore and listen to over 100,000 radio listings from around the world. Audio can be subscribed to and automatically recorded. As well, users can listen live to thousands of RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, and MP3 streams, all in one player.
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http://www.rogueamoeba.com/radioshift/
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Just-Mac reviewed on 26 Aug 2011
Radioshift User Interface is just so bad, not worthy to be called a Mac App, it's clicking hell! (read another comment to explain the details, I am not going to go through that).
I recently found another Radio app, SNOWTAPE, which is a pleasure to use in comparison to Radioshift, and full of functionality as well!
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You are not understanding the complaint, it's about the UI! Like... this silly paginated presentation of results, a native app that wants to look like a web page. And the window content that does not resize with the window, (why do I have a big screen?). And the absence of Right-clicking to make a station a favorite from the search results (need to access the station details first, then back-out of it for the next station). And the space bar that does not pause the audio like ALL other audio app I have come across (like iTunes), etc… etc…
A clicking hell, as I said!
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However, as the list doesn't resize with the main window, it's still a bit annoying. It's as if the developers built this app on a tiny laptop and want everyone else to use it that way.
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Just-Mac reviewed on 26 Aug 2011
I recently found another Radio app, SNOWTAPE, which is a pleasure to use in comparison to Radioshift, and full of functionality as well!
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How does one go about editing one's post here?
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Broksta reviewed on 30 May 2011
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 26 May 2011
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Evolut reviewed on 27 Nov 2010
The UI is a mess, absolutely awful! This app is in love with paging and clicking… lots of it!
What's wrong with an iTunes-like User Interface? Apple, and others, have thought through many usability issues, so why that desire to imitate the mess of a badly designed web site instead?
For instance, RadioShift has a great ability to find radios, but the results are useless because of the UI:
Let's say I search for "Jazz"… I get 629 results. This sounds great, right?
But wait! The results are shown in pages of 10! So I need to painfully browse 63 pages!!!! Click, Click, Click, Click…. . This is INSANE!
What wrong with scrollable lists, spreadsheets with rows and columns that I could scroll quickly with the mouse wheel/trackpad/magic mouse??? …with meaningful columns that I could sort by, with a filter to tune-in within the search results, etc, etc…?
And to view the details of one particular station, I have to click on it, and I get to another page to read it, and then page back to the list (and the animations are making it even slower) and then carry-on clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking… What's wrong with an Info panel that details whatever is selected in the list. No! This application can't show the list together with the details of the selected station.
Now… you can elect favorites… Great! you may think… But wait! You cannot simply right-click on a station and add it to Favorites, you have to page to the details, select Favorites, and go back to the list in search of another station.
And there is only ONE list of favorites! What's wrong with multiple collections like iTunes' playlists?
And the favorites are also painfully shown as pages again. My initial stations searching lead with 74 favorites (the search was so painful that I put many in favorites for checking later, to avoid repeating the search). Well… that meant that I had to pages through 8 pages of favorites! And I cannot reorganize them. Let's say I want to compare a station in page 1 and page 6 to see which I prefer? Click, Click, Click, Click…
Again, please look at iTunes and learn how to do a functional and simple UI! Besides, it would be familiar to everybody…
Very usable UI concepts have already been discovered for the kind of issues Radioshift has to deal with, the flagship being iTunes. Why go the opposite direction, and go for the look of a fancy, glitzy and mostly useless web site?
What a pity to have Radioshift and all its great underlying functionality put to waste by an insane User Interface!
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But no! This is not a PVR! It will not let you Pause/Rewind, at anytime, what you are listening. It can only record what you have (painfully) set up in advance for recording.
So forget about rewinding to try and catch the title of a song you found nice, what was said before the song when you were not paying attention...
Calling it a PVR for radio is very misleading! It is not.
So please Developer... a PVR for radio is a great idea, but implement it first before advertising it.
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Look at screenshots of Radioshift's UI and it all seems nice, but it is all fluff, very anti-Mac.
Trying it is a different story, it's "Clicking Hell"! Or else your needs are very limited, maybe just finding your few favorites stations and you're happy... I just don't know how one cannot be frustrated against Radioshift's UI.
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The negatives were thoroughly explained and spot on! And please note that they essentially relate to the user interface. Radioshift may do its job if you are willing to suffer through its user interface, and that might be fine with you, but it does not deserve to be a Mac Application.
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Taaminator reviewed on 14 Nov 2010
OUTSTANDING!
RadioShift makes recording internet audio streams absolutely simple.
The basic idea is to "subscribe" to a stream according to start time and length.
Manually, you must provide a streaming audio source, add any optional information (title, artist, genre), and schedule (date, time, length).
Automatically, select Radio Guide, look for station or artist or subject, choose one, select "Subscribe", and, the title and schedule are instantly entered into a new RadioShift Subscription.
RadioShift's Radio Guide and Subscription automatic scheduling is quite possibly the easiest subscription in software, today.
RadioShift developers at Rogue Amoeba are superior and work constantly to improve RadioShift.
Wishlist
It would be nice to change RadioShift's naming convention of the saved audio files.
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Dana Sutton reviewed on 23 Jan 2010
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