Decent program. Does what it claims to. Just wish I'd tried it out before shelling out the bucks for it.
The UI is simple, but not very intuitive, imo. Easy iTunes integration is a plus. Searching for a station could be cleaner.
When you add a station ("Radio") not found in the list, there is an incredibly annoying UI bug that when you type the station information into the dialog, the keystrokes are still acting on the program. Example, Space will pause/play whatever you're listening to, RATHER that putting a space where you're typing. This is very annoying, and totally unexpected for a $30 piece of software.
The next version or two should be pretty good, but I'd keep shopping around.
The technology is oustanding. Even the presets for different speaker types (internal, external, headphone) are fabulous (though my iMac seems to fall somewhere in-between). This is a great investment for anyone wanting to automatically improve the quality of your digital audio and get the most out of your high kbps, without paying hundreds of dollars or more for a state-of-the-art sound system (or, in addition to, why not?).
As for customer service, some have complained about the activation limitations with no customer support. After using iWow for years, I began experiencing activation issues today (I boot externally between two machines), contacted CS, and got a helpful reply TEN MINUTES LATER. They've got my support!
Great little tool, but still needs stabilization. Active tagging ends up stalling if no lyrics can be found, and the program insists on reverting to showing me lyrics for the selected song rather than what's actually playing. It just doesn't switch nicely between view current, view selection, active tagging, and edit text. Also, if no song (or a radio station) is playing, a never-ending array of error dialogues pop up when in active tagging mode. Very frustrating.
All I need is a program that fetches and displays the lyrics of whatever song i'm listening to, and perhaps occasionally find lyrics for a batch of songs. That's all. Get Lyrical seems able to do that much of the time, but there are just too many niggles that keep cropping up.
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Radio Gaga
Cschoolland reviewed on 16 Dec 2009
The UI is simple, but not very intuitive, imo. Easy iTunes integration is a plus. Searching for a station could be cleaner.
When you add a station ("Radio") not found in the list, there is an incredibly annoying UI bug that when you type the station information into the dialog, the keystrokes are still acting on the program. Example, Space will pause/play whatever you're listening to, RATHER that putting a space where you're typing. This is very annoying, and totally unexpected for a $30 piece of software.
The next version or two should be pretty good, but I'd keep shopping around.
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SRS iWOW Premium
As for customer service, some have complained about the activation limitations with no customer support. After using iWow for years, I began experiencing activation issues today (I boot externally between two machines), contacted CS, and got a helpful reply TEN MINUTES LATER. They've got my support!
Get Lyrical
Cschoolland reviewed on 08 Oct 2009
All I need is a program that fetches and displays the lyrics of whatever song i'm listening to, and perhaps occasionally find lyrics for a batch of songs. That's all. Get Lyrical seems able to do that much of the time, but there are just too many niggles that keep cropping up.