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Earbits Radio Mixes Local Music With Online Recommendations On Android

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Music has been with mankind for as long as the recorded human history itself. Since music industry has grown into an incredible size, so has the ecosystem of apps and related services intertwined with it. For the past few years, services like Last.fm, Spotify, Pandora etc. have become among the top choices of most users for listening to streaming music on almost every mobile and desktop platform. Though that doesn't stop new entrants to hop onto the bandwagon and provide something fresh. Earbits Radio is an engaging music discovery app for Android and web, and lets you listen to music that is stored on your local storage as well as stream it off the internet. The service is aimed at independent artists and labels who want to promote their music without much effort. It allows them to place bids and get discovered by users who use Earbits on the platform of their choice. More details after the jump. Read More

Pokki Gets A Full-Featured Pandora App With Desktop Notifications

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Many of us get tired of our daily hectic work routine, and listening to music is a great way to keep oneself going all day and replenish that relaxation meter again. Speaking of music, there are countless number of services that let you listen to your favorite tunes. Services like Spotify, Last.fm & Pandora offer fascinating solutions to stream music off the internet at zero charge. If you’re an avid Pandora listener, Pandora for Pokki is a great app to use the service without firing up its webpage. This gorgeous app enables to sign in to your Pandora account to access your profile, playlists, radio stations and then some. Read More

Official 8tracks Radio App For Windows 8 Impresses With Great UI & Music Discovery Options

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Being an avid music listener, I love fiddling around with different radio apps. After trying out services like Pandora, Last.fm and Spotify, I recently stumbled upon 8tracks and found it to be pretty amazing to say the least, especially with all its social networking and mood-based music exploration features. After enjoying critical acclaim on iOS and Android platforms, the app has finally landed on Windows Store. 8tracks radio allows you to listen to user-curated music playlists and follow other 8tracks users (called DJs) in order to stay updated on their music collection. Read More

Discover Music People Are Listening To Nearby With Soundtracker For Windows 8

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Listening to online radio is one of those activities that we enjoy the most during our work hours. For many of us, listening to music apparently keeps us coping all day with a hectic work routine. Spotify tends to cover all my music listening needs most of the time, but that doesn’t stop me from trying out new similar apps for myself as well as our readers. The latest such app to come across my way is Soundtracker for Windows 8 and RT - an online radio service that makes listening to music more engaging, thanks to its Foursquare-esque location-based concept. The app lets you discover music that’s being listened to and shared by folks in your vicinity. You can browse other Soundtracker users’ profiles and befriends those who share the same music taste as yours. Read More

Schedule Auto Song Recording From Multiple Radio Streams With streamWriter

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Even though you can listen to radio stations and music from all over the world using various web services such as TuneIn Radio, Last.fm and Pandora Internet Radio, there are times when you are not connected to the internet, for instance when going on vacation to a place where there is no internet service available. In such cases, you need to rely on an offline playlist to get your fill of music. Stream recorders are a great way to capture new content and save it to your hard drive. Yesterday, we covered a radio stream recorder called ESFSoft Radio Downloader that allows you to download radio streams from Shoutcast.com. Today, we bring to you another, much bigger, application for recording radio streams. streamWriter is a feature-rich utility that allows you to record music from multiple internet radio stations at a time. You can maintain wish lists for automatically recording your required songs whenever they are played on a station, schedule recordings to capture a station between a certain time slot, and even automatically skip ads from the recordings. More on streamWriter after the jump. Read More

aTunes Is A Music Manager With Support For Lyrics, Last.fm & Online Radio Streaming

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Apple’s marquee iTunes application has earned a lot of reputation as well as notoriety, depending on your requirements and stance on bloatware. The app works great with iOS devices but for most others, alternatives like MediaMonkey and Winamp are still among the top choices. Recently, I reviewed a light-weight music player for Windows called GOMAudio that is built with minimalism on mind but today, I have a feature-laden audio manager for music enthusiasts called aTunes. No, it's not another iTunes rip off, but the application does look cool. This open-source cross-platform program holds tons of features under the hood, boasting incredible skin customization options and stellar playback performance, streaming & Last.fm support, automatic lyrics downloading, syncing with portable media players, and a lot more. Let's take a look at the player and its features in detail after the jump. Read More

Download Songs From SHOUTcast Stations With ESFSoft Radio Downloader

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Many of us listen to online music streams while doing several other activities like work, exercise, commuting and what not. While there are countless streaming services available that offer something for everyone's taste, a times you just need the music to be available offline in order to listen to it on the go, especially in areas where you don't have wireless broadband, or just to cut down on your data connection bills. Also, at times you are listening to a radio station and on comes a song that you like instantly. You keep waiting for the presenter to call out the name of the song and artist at the end but it doesn't happen, and you are left wondering which song that was. You can search for it using different methods such as Googling its lyrics, but that in itself can be a bit too much trouble, especially in case of less-known indie music. ESFSoft Radio Downloader helps you with that by allowing you to download radio streams from Shoutcast.com and automatically save them to your computer. The application downloads each song in a different file, letting you easily create a complete playlist. Read More

Radio Tuna Is A Neat, Compact Desktop App For Online Radio Streaming

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Listening to online radio is probably the best way to stream music for free. Online radio services like Last.fm, Spotify and Pandora have long been fairly popular and are used by millions around the globe but due to their limited availability – Spotify being available only in selected regions for instance -  many of us are left in the dust. Previously, we have covered various radio applications for Windows that doesn’t put any regional or country constraints on their users such as RarmaRadio, InLight Radio and RadioZilla. Today, we’re bringing you another such app called Radio Tuna. The application houses a massive number of radio stations and lets you stream thousands of streams ranging from Rock and Rap to Pop, HipHop, Classic and so on. Read More

Listen To Your Favorite Radio Stations In Windows 8 With TuneIn Radio

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When radio was invented, it instantly became popular among the masses. Then came the television, which replaced radio as the most popular electronic gadget and had a good run until the invention of the internet. Even though the internet is now used to fulfill a lot of our entertainment needs, radio and television are still used by a lot of people. However, like all things, these two have also evolved over the years and now you can listen to a radio station or watch a television channel without leaving your computer. Radio streams allow us to listen to the stations, related to different categories, such as News, Music, Comedy, Discussions etc., from all over the world. TuneIn Radio, a fairly popular radio streaming app for Android and iOS, is now available for Windows 8. It allows users to listen to a variety of radio stations broadcasted from different corners of the world. You can browse for different channels, set them as favorites, and create tiles for frequently accessed stations to launch them directly from the Start Screen. Read More

RadioZilla: Listen To Internet Radio & Download Streams To Your PC

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Listening to music is a good way to relax while working. However, in order to listen to music, you have to have some good songs stored in your computer. Even though there are lots of online services available that allow you to listen to music without downloading it, some good songs should be available in your hard drive in case you lose the internet connection. You can download songs to your computer from various sites, but how do you know which track to get? Randomly downloading songs hoping to find something good is obviously not the way to go. To find good new songs, what you can do is listen to the radio, and then if you like a song, download it to your computer. Again, listening to a song on the radio, searching for it on the internet and then downloading it seems too much trouble to just create a playlist. Today, we have an application for Windows called RadioZilla that allows you to, listen to a wide variety of radio stations, and directly download the currently playing songs, without having to use any third party application to complete the process. Keep reading to find out more about RadioZilla. Read More

Mentor.Fm: Streaming Internet Music Based On Your Facebook Likes

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Mentor.fm is a web service that attempts to provide music tracks using the internet and your Facebook music preferences. It detects your music taste from your Facebook profile, and delivers tracks based on your likes on the social networking giant. Mentor.fm creates a playlist of 10-15 tracks based on the artists you have liked on your Facebook profile, and other similar artists that you may like. Once the the last song has been played, Mentor.fm re-starts from the first, or you can load a new playlist for new songs. Read More

Radio Tray: Minimalist Internet Radio Player For Ubuntu Linux

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Radio Tray is an open source streaming radio player for Ubuntu Linux that provides streaming via an app-indicator menu applet. Radio Tray comes with support for bookmarks, PLS, M3U, ASX, WAX and WVX playlist formats, and multiple plugins. It can play a number of media formats, which are based on the gstreamer libraries. The aim of this application is to provide internet radio streaming with a minimalist interface, along with the option to add multiple radio streams via internet radio URLs. Read More

Search And Record Live Internet Radio Streams With Antenna

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Antenna is an Adobe AIR application that lets you find and tune into hundreds of online radio stations according to Country and Genre. Antenna has quite a unique user interface, as it comes with an integrated map, which displays the radio player showing where the stations are located. Using Antenna, you can add stations to favorites, rate them, and also download radio streams. Furthermore, Antenna provides station reliability indicators and  a search bar for quickly locating radio stations. Read More

PianoPub: Stream Music From Pandora & Manage Stations On Desktop [Mac]

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Music junkies are always looking for something new to listen. Even if you’re very particular about what music you like and what you don’t, searching for a certain music genre is most probably how you find new music. Regardless of tastes, internet radio in general, and Pandora in particular, is a good way of discovering new music. The new Pandora HTML5-based interface is, of course, excellent, but if you might not want to search among tabs and windows when you want to change stations or skip songs in Pandora, PianoPub is a Mac app that puts a simple music player on your desktop. It allows you to listen to songs from Pandora, add or remove stations, skip songs and rate them as good or bad. Read More

Download Music Tracks From Internet Radio Stations With streamWriter

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streamWriter is a portable tool (also available as an installer) which provides the utility to record and listen to MP3/AAC-streams broadcasted by internet radio stations. It has an ability to easily sort out radio channels by genre and bitrate. You can quickly save songs and create groups for easy sorting and management of internet radio streams. Filters can also be applied to exclude certain channels. It also allows creating your own playlist, as well as adding third party internet radio streams in a snap (by entering the URL of the stream). It has a unique functionality of skipping ads, which works with most internet radio channels.  You can even restrict disk space usage for saved files to ensure that the disk usage will not exceed a minimum defined size. Read More

UMPlayer Is MPlayer With Loads Of Additional Features And YouTube Integration

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For long I have relied on the open source VLC and the Windows 7 default Windows Media Player 11. It is not often that we come across a media player so comprehensive that it can match the quality of such robust players. UMPlayer or Universal Media player is a cross platform open source media player that can fulfill all your needs with over 270 built-in Audio and Video codecs. It uses the famous Mplayer engine with more integrated features. It can play almost any media format with support for 270 Audio and Video codecs. These include widely used  codecs such as AAC, AC3, ASF, AVI, DIVX, FLV, H.263, Matroska, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, QT, RealMedia, VOB, Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMV, XVID as well as audio support for  CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, as well as TV / Radio cards, SHOUTcast Radio streams. It can even play incomplete or damaged media files. It also has a built-in YouTube and SHOUTcast search integration which allows searching and streaming content from SHOUTcast and YouTube within UMPlayer. Read More

Listen To Radio Stations From Any Country In Your Default Media Player

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A while back we reviewed Nexus Radio that allows to search and listen to radio stations by genre. OPENwebRadio is another portable application that allows searching and playing radio stations by a select country and genre. Unlike Nexus Radio, this application makes it easier to identify and listen to radio stations by both location or taste preferences. This simplifies the task for a listener to find his/her favorite stations from any part of the world without coming across channels that may not be in the desired language. Read More

Stream And Record Tracks From Online Radio Stations With Tapin Radio

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Tapin Radio is a miniscule application which offers access to hundreds of international internet radio stations with an option to stream and record the track which is being played. Comparing with previously covered applications like Musicy, Nexus Radio, and Hi-Q Recorder, it offers a dead simple interface with just two options for playing and recording the stream, you don't have to mess around with audio configurations, recording settings, and other media streaming options to set it up. Search bar is also available on the main interface to filter radio stations by music artists, cities, music genres, and so on. Read More

Clementine Music Player Is Alternative To Amarok [Review]

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The digital music industry is witnessing a significant growth, there's no denying it. And with any sector that develops at such rapid pace, there's always an increase in the level of competition. Hundreds, if not thousands of digital music tools and gadgets are hitting the market, all promising to enhance users' experience of organizing, listening to or sharing digital music. But there's just one problem with most of the digital music products that we witness--they're too complex for the average computer user to comprehend. In a bid at differentiating their product lines by adding more and more features, companies lose track of one significant parameter--simplicity. And this is precisely what distinguishes Clementine, a simple cross-platform music player that enables users to enjoy music and Internet radio. Read More

Musicy: Listen To Radio And Rip Streaming Music

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As radio stations are contrived for different music genres and distinctive in terms of jazz, rock, metal, heavy metal, grunge and so on, listeners keeps on changing tracks. Tools for recording radio streaming are not sufficient and does not provide full scalability. Musicy on the other hand, targets those music junkies who frequently listens to different radio stations for keeping tab on particular genre. Besides being a radio streaming utility, it also let users instantly rip and download the track which is being streamed. Read More