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Radioshift

Radioshift - 1.0.5

find, listen to and record internet radio

All Time: (3.0)
This Version: (4.5)
Current Version: 1.0.5
Release Date: 2008-03-21
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 1,267
Downloads (all versions): 5,209
Price: $32

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Product Description:

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 50,000 radio listings from around the world. As well, users can listen live to thousands of RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, and MP3 streams, all in one player.

Best of all, audio can be subscribed to and automatically recorded. When you come back, the audio will be ready for listening.

What's new in this version:

  • Programs selected via a specific station are now recorded from that station
  • Now features preferences to intelligently filter Guide results
  • Improved Popular section in the Radio Guide
  • Improved support for international date formats
  • Fixed a rare crashing bug when recording to MP3
  • Improved error messages and many other minor fixes

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • none

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This Version:
Overall Rating: (4.5) Features: (5.0) Support: (4.5)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (3.0) Price: (4.0)
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Radioshift ReviewBuyer Beware!! - Version: 1.0.5, 4/22/2008 09:41AM PST

misterstimulation
If you want a program that will record streaming content available on the internet, buyer beware. If you want to schedule these recordings and retrieve them at a later date, buyer beware. This software is extremely buggy.

Radioshift is a nice idea, but nothing more. As a happy Rogue Amoeba customer (disclosure: I own and love Airfoil), I'm extremely disappointed. Radioshift is supposed allow you to record and/or listen to streaming content on the internet. However, it does not work consistently at all. you can listen to streaming content, but the drama begins wonce you try to record programming and/or schedule recordings. In addition, support for this program is poor. All the issues I've described below have been sent to their support team and the only solution they offered me was a download of their latest development build. According to their site, the dev build is "almost certainly stable, but may contain bugs or a lack of polish." -- BUT.. I didn't pay $32 for a dev build.

The program has had issues with the following:

- Scheduled shows did not record. Example, I want to record a weekly show that airs every Sunday at 4pm. I check my machine on Monday. The program shows that nothing was recorded, but there were no error messages. Radioshift creates a folder for all shows and places the recorded audio file in that folder. No folder. No audio content. (I searched my machine)

- Shows being recorded were lost. At the end of the show, the program did not seem to stop recording even after clicking on the "Stop Recording" option. It displayed the rotating pinwheel. Once the program stopped (about 5-10 minutes later), the audio for said show could not be found anywhere on my computer. Once again, Radioshift creates a folder for each show you record. No folder or audio content could be found my machine.

- Periodically, the program seems to stop recording for no reason. Example, a show is about two hours long, but forty minutes into the show Radioshift stops recording. While recording, the program displays a count down. In this example, the count down would display two hours (120 minutes). Well, periodically the countdown stops counting down and it is apparent that my content is not being recorded.

I would not recommend this version of the program at all. I feel like I've been conned into spending $32 on something that is still in development. I would suggest they pull the product. Based on my experience it DOES NOT function as advertised (consistently).
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Radioshift ReviewFantastic concept, still buggy - Version: 1.0.5, 3/26/2008 10:12AM PST

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prenault
This feels like the beta version of a killer app. Great idea. Looks good. Works OK most of the time. But still BUGGY! Too many crashes, lost audio files, recordings that either fail to start or stop.
Would be well worth the price if they only could make it less buggy.
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Radioshift ReviewIf you like radio in the car, now you can have it at home. - Version: 1.0.5, 3/21/2008 11:16AM PST

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iJak
Here is the good, for me. It works without problems and it sounds good for every station I tried, worldwide.
Here is the bad. The internet does not stream all stations.
I am lucky, my favorite radio station is streamed. ... I actually think most are streamed now, but just in case yours is not. ... Remember, you can actually expand your horizons. ... There is a great search and find through a map, text, genre, even subsets of a genre. ...

I bought the family pack and put it on the five computers I have all over the house. ... It is pretty amazing. ... I have even subscribed to some specific programs that a weird friend in another state always listens to and tries to get me to listen to the same program a few days later on my local station. ... Now I can listen to his requests on my time. ... Pretty funny.
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