Radiotracker 6 Platinum

Radiotracker 6 Platinum makes searching, archiving, and downloading web radio music simple. An innovative audio application, Radiotracker helps users search through online radio stations for their favorite songs, artists, and albums, and easily record the music to digital audio formats, ready to store on their PC.

Downloading music online is becoming more and more risky for P2P (peer-to-peer) software users. With industry crackdowns occurring, intense legal action taking place, and a range of potential viruses invading online sharing software, many users are looking for alternative ways to find their favorite music online.

Radiotracker 5 Platinum is one of the most worthwhile alternatives out there. A web radio searching and recording tool, Radiotracker 5 gives users access to all of their favorite songs, without the risk of downloading viruses. By continually monitoring over 2000 web radio stations, and providing access to over 40,000 online radio stations, Radiotracker 5 can search for, access, and download new songs within 25 seconds.

Of course, there are concerns whenever music is recorded from the radio. Ten years ago users were making mixtape that were no doubt plagued with annoying DJ announcements and blank space at the beginning and end of each song. Radiotracker 5 Platinum wipes out those annoyances by automatically clipping out radio DJ banter and cutting songs off exactly when they finish, all the way down to the last milliseconds.

Offering a variety of different recording and encoding formats, Radiotracker 5 allows users to encode their music in whatever format is convenient for their digital music player or PC collection. Files can be downloaded and encoded as MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, and a variety of other music formats. Audiophiles will be pleased to hear that Radiotracker has full support for lossless WAV audio files.

While tracks are limited to the online broadcast quality, Radiotracker 5 includes a number of options to filter and only encode high quality audio streams. Despite the occasional annoyance of having to sift through low quality online streams, Radiotracker 5 Platinum is one of the best applications available for finding, recording, and collecting online music.

Radiotracker Platinum: What We Liked

Radiotracker Platinum is fast - songs are often found in under 25 seconds, recorded rapidly, and saved in a range of formats.

DJ banter and annoying post-song silence is automatically cropped out of recordings.

Lossless audio encoding formats are available, ensuring CD quality sound and downloads.

Radiotracker Platinum: What We Didn't Like

Users are limited to the quality available from online radio stations. While encoding options can retain the dynamics of high quality recordings, they can't add depth to poor streams.

RapidSolution Support

Basic online support is available through the RapidSolution website, which offers documentation, FAQs, and limited customer support.

About RapidSolution Software AG

A major German software developer, RapidSolution Software AG was founded in 1998 and has grown to become one of Europe's most important audio software companies. Their main product line, Audials, enjoys worldwide support from a large user-base.

     

With Radiotracker 5 Platinum users can supply themselves with music that fits their current mood or the prevailing atmosphere using their own wish lists or lists downloaded from the new "Audials Community". Various favourite lists of web radios can also be compiled and managed based on mood or other criteria. In order to compile its own radio programme, Radiotracker now records additional so called social web radios such as Last.fm, Pandora, Soundclick, Yahoo Launchcast and other stations.

The best from 80 styles of music, 20,000 web radios and 70,000 artists is just a click away
Alongside the new innovations, user comfort has been improved in many respects and in many places. The management of podcasts has been more tightly integrated and developed further. The CD burning function has been improved. Along with the Radiotracker Player, it is now also possible to use Winamp, Apple iTunes and Windows Media Player as alternatives for playing music. The automatic completion of pieces of music with ID3 tags, cover pictures and lyrics, as well as their display, is now more comfortable than was the case in previous versions. An improvement on previous versions is the selection of artists according to recognition and frequency in the database. The portfolio of suggested similar musicians to an artist and music style searched for by a user is now more comprehensive and has been considerably improved in terms of the target precision.

A Filter alone doesn't make a MusicFinder. Only Radiotracker has the original MusicFinder
Only the Platinum Edition of Radiotracker uses a global network to simultaneously monitor 2,000 web radios and then find and record only exactly the desired music. With an average search time of 25 seconds Radiotracker isn't just quicker at locating music, but also finds considerably more of the desired music, which is then perfectly and automatically cut and made available to the user together with cover pictures, lyrics and ID3 tags. Only Radiotracker offers such a unique function.

New AAC audio format for Apple & Co.
The number of web radios in Radiotracker has now increased with version 5 to over 20,000. The origin of the web radios is now indicated with a national flag. New for version 5 are AAC audio format web radios. Music with the AAC file format has a higher quality and smaller file sizes than the MP3 standard and can be played on the current generation of mobile devices, such as Apple iPod, Apple iPhone and the Walkman mobile telephones from Sony Ericsson.

Evolution in the quality of music recording
The quality of recorded music is now evaluated by Radiotracker. Radiotracker cuts, normalises and automatically inserts fading. Music tracks with excellent quality and fully removed voice-overs are labelled with a green tick mark. A dedicated studio is available for rarely required post processing of music tracks. With version 5, the hit rate of the MusicFinder and the recording quality has improved once again.