I have made the full switch to listening exclusively to Internet Radio stations many years ago. The core reasons? Accessibility while working on the PC, less ads and talking while songs are playing, and better recording possibilities (see our StreamWriter review for an excellent program that can be used for that purpose. I usually use [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Mentor FM is one of those tools that it is pretty awesome and scary at the same time. The Internet radio tunes into your Facebook account to play music that you like. The awesome part is that it usually gets things pretty right in this regard. All you need to do is to give the [...]

Categories: Music and Video

The playlist (.pls) file format is without doubt one of the most popular formats when it comes to Internet radio stations. All it takes to tune into a radio station is to open the .pls file in a compatible player. Whenever I try to load a playlist file on my system Windows makes the suggestion [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

I have not looked at Pandora Radio ever since the service closed down its international access. Before that, I published two guides on saving Pandora music. That was back in 2006; Five years later and the situation has not changed a lot. Pandora is still only available for US Internet users and those who use [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Recording Internet Radio streams is without doubt one of the best ways to increase a music collection legally. While I cannot vouch that recording the music is legal in all countries of the world, I know that it is in many. And instead of just recording one stream and thus one song at a time, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the easiest ways to obtain music legally is to record Internet radio. Tools for the job have evolved a lot over past years, from command line applications to powerful programs that can record dozens of Internet radio stations at the same time. StreamWriter is such an application. The program has a lot to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Sometimes all you want to do is to play Internet radio on your computer. Most music players support Internet Radio, some offer in-program browsing and searching of music, others can play what the user selects on a website or loads from the local system. Tapin Radio has been designed to be an easy to use [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Back in 2008 I reviewed a small application to download music from Deezer, a popular free music streaming service at that time. The application used back then has not been updated since that day and is no longer working with the latest public version of Deezer. Reason enough to look a second time at the [...]

Categories: Entertainment, The Web

One of the easiest ways to increase a music collection is to record Internet radio streams. Just like recording conventional radio, recording Internet radio is legal in many countries. Putting legalities aside, it is also one of the fastest and most comfortable option. But it has its drawbacks as well. Since it is only possible [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows