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Product Features
- Finds the MP3 music you want most
- Quickly fill your hard drive with thousands of MP3 files from 77 music genres
- Keeps you up-to-date with the latest episodes
- Sound studio for individualised editing
- Automatically populates lyrics, album cover artwork and ID3 tags
- Station Manager keeps your favorite Web radio stations organised
- Ring tone generator, player and music organiser
- CD burner and mobile device synchronisation
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Product Description
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Find, download and burn MP3 files from 77 music genres & almost 100,000 artists! Simply add your favorite artists to the MusicFinder's wish list and Radiotracker will deliver the selected MP3 file to your PC as soon as it plays on one of over 15,000 Internet radio stations.
Radiotracker Platinum's intelligent MusicFinder finds the MP3 music you want most
Where is your music playing right now? State-of-the-art technology enables Radiotrackers around the world to automatically exchange information about which Internet radio station is currently playing which music. Your Radiotracker is automatically notified when the music you want begins to play somewhere and in the blink of an eye starts recording the songs on your wish list.
Hundreds of your favorite songs in MP3 format with quality levels reaching as high as 320kBit/s - cut, normalized and complete with ID3 tags, album cover artwork and lyrics.
Select your music genre, activate Autorip and Radiotracker starts recording MP3 music tracks in parallel from as many Internet broadcasters as it can given your available Internet bandwidth.
Entertainment bonus: podcasts
Radiotracker Platinum's continuously updated podcast database brings you thousands of audio and video podcasts from around the world, all categorized for easy findability.
Sound studio for individualized editing
Radiotracker Platinum automatically puts the music tracks you record through a professional editing process. Configurable settings let you control the fading at the beginning and end of each track, as well as volume normalization.
Automatically populates lyrics, album cover artwork and ID3 tags
Only Radiotracker Platinum finds the lyrics for your music and inserts these in addition to album cover artwork and ID3 tags into your music tracks after they have been recorded.
Station Manager keeps your favorite Web radio stations organized
Radiotracker's station management control panel categorizes 16,000 stations into 77 music genres and sorts them by bit rate up to 320 kbit/s. Insert the stations you love into your favorites list and blacklist those you don't like. Radiotracker's MusicFinder helps out too by automatically adding the stations that play your favorite music most often to your favorites list.
Extras galore! Ring tone generator, player, music organizer, CD burner and mobile device synchronization
Radiotracker Platinum's industry-acclaimed usability and easy operation is supplemented by numerous extras that make entertainment easy! The Organizer puts order into your collection and the Player lets you listen to recorded music without any additional tools. Use the CD Burner to burn recorded music onto MP3 or audio CDs you can use at home in your sound system or in your car's CD player. And if you're the type who likes to take it with you, Radiotracker helps you intuitively synchronize music to mobile devices like MP3 players, iPods, mobile phones and PDAs.
What's NEW
MP3 editor for changing the track borders and fading afterwards
Shows a preview of tracks that are played on a station
Manage your favorite stations
One click to open the web site of the radio station which gives you more information about it
Export and import of favorites and black list
Community, where the users can share station lists and black lists
Scan your existing music collection to find more songs of your favorite artists with Radiotracker
Community, where the users can share their favorite artists and wish lists
Manage, import and export several wish lists
Filter - Powerful duplicate prevention: Analyses the existing music collection to generate a filter to not record the existing
Play and Sync: Filter and sort options for a better overview
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is an extremely clever bit of software, which claims to be 100% legal. In a nutshell, it scans 1000's of Internet radio stations and rips songs on the fly and saves them in mp3 format to your hard drive.
You can search by artist or track title or indeed both, or select a genre and Radiotracker does the rest. Initially I did a search for The Beatles and within 30 minutes I had nine Beatles songs downloaded to my PC. Next I searched for Prince and within 10 minutes, I had mp3's of When Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy.
Installation is straightforward (albeit unusually via Internet Explorer) and the software is user friendly and it comes with a built-in media player. You can set up the software to search and download for anywhere between 10 minutes and 24 hours. There are some downsides - the mp3's are usually of very average quality (128kbps) and you sometimes get DJ's talking over the beginning and end of songs (although all songs are faded in and out to try and alleviate this problem). However, despite the downsides, Radiotracker has the ability to download 100s (and that's no exaggeration) of songs daily that you can burn to CD or just listen to via your PC for the cost of a couple of CD albums. And it's good fun too - search by 'Artist' and you never know what songs you're going to get.
I would suggest that Radiotracker has arrived at the digital music party a little too late. Spotify has millions of songs available for streaming and Amazon (and others) offer high quality mp3s without the DRM headache at a fairly reasonable price. But, I'd suggest that Radiotracker is an impressive and very affordable alternative.
You can search by artist or track title or indeed both, or select a genre and Radiotracker does the rest. Initially I did a search for The Beatles and within 30 minutes I had nine Beatles songs downloaded to my PC. Next I searched for Prince and within 10 minutes, I had mp3's of When Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy.
Installation is straightforward (albeit unusually via Internet Explorer) and the software is user friendly and it comes with a built-in media player. You can set up the software to search and download for anywhere between 10 minutes and 24 hours. There are some downsides - the mp3's are usually of very average quality (128kbps) and you sometimes get DJ's talking over the beginning and end of songs (although all songs are faded in and out to try and alleviate this problem). However, despite the downsides, Radiotracker has the ability to download 100s (and that's no exaggeration) of songs daily that you can burn to CD or just listen to via your PC for the cost of a couple of CD albums. And it's good fun too - search by 'Artist' and you never know what songs you're going to get.
I would suggest that Radiotracker has arrived at the digital music party a little too late. Spotify has millions of songs available for streaming and Amazon (and others) offer high quality mp3s without the DRM headache at a fairly reasonable price. But, I'd suggest that Radiotracker is an impressive and very affordable alternative.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great little programme. As the product description says it basically scans internet radio stations and downloads tracks onto your hard drive. No fuss, no charge, and yet apparently it's all above board and there are no copyright/royalty issues (and who am I to argue?)
The software downloads easily enough and you are then presented with an interface (see product photos) which prompts you to choose the musical genre (or podcast) you're interested in (NB not all tastes are catered for but it is quite broad and you can also add your own). You are then asked to choose the number of stations you wish to monitor from a list of 15000 (though again you can add your own). I chose between ten and twenty and pressed 'activate' and then just watched as Radiotracker simultaneously recorded the tracks that the chosen stations happened to be playing and added them to a folder on my hard drive. The system is highly flexible and artists, tracks and stations can be black-listed so you don't download unwanted material and what's more it also locates album artwork, tracklisting AND lyrics where available. Anyway once you have the music you desire you are then able (from the same interface)to burn your selections onto CD, convert them to MP3s or turn them into ringtones. I found this software as easy to use as stand-alone 'dedicated' CD-burning software too. I was particularly delighted with the ease of use of the ring-tone generator software: again I have some stand alone software for this but Radiotracker's version is better and less fiddly to use (yet fully featured for what you need). Lastly this version of Radiotracker now features the facility to record social web radio websites such as Last.fm which is brilliant if you need to track down that obscure 'Tudor Lodge' track (that would never, EVER get played on radio - even with 15000 stations to choose from!). The only downside is that you are typically getting a compression/quality rate of 160 Kbps but this is generally satisfactory for most people anyway. If only it would work with Spotify!
I am happy to award this product five stars. Easy to use and gives great results. Still can't believe there's no catch!
The software downloads easily enough and you are then presented with an interface (see product photos) which prompts you to choose the musical genre (or podcast) you're interested in (NB not all tastes are catered for but it is quite broad and you can also add your own). You are then asked to choose the number of stations you wish to monitor from a list of 15000 (though again you can add your own). I chose between ten and twenty and pressed 'activate' and then just watched as Radiotracker simultaneously recorded the tracks that the chosen stations happened to be playing and added them to a folder on my hard drive. The system is highly flexible and artists, tracks and stations can be black-listed so you don't download unwanted material and what's more it also locates album artwork, tracklisting AND lyrics where available. Anyway once you have the music you desire you are then able (from the same interface)to burn your selections onto CD, convert them to MP3s or turn them into ringtones. I found this software as easy to use as stand-alone 'dedicated' CD-burning software too. I was particularly delighted with the ease of use of the ring-tone generator software: again I have some stand alone software for this but Radiotracker's version is better and less fiddly to use (yet fully featured for what you need). Lastly this version of Radiotracker now features the facility to record social web radio websites such as Last.fm which is brilliant if you need to track down that obscure 'Tudor Lodge' track (that would never, EVER get played on radio - even with 15000 stations to choose from!). The only downside is that you are typically getting a compression/quality rate of 160 Kbps but this is generally satisfactory for most people anyway. If only it would work with Spotify!
I am happy to award this product five stars. Easy to use and gives great results. Still can't believe there's no catch!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Radio Tracker is a piece of software that allows you to record MP3 straight from streaming radio stations onto your hard drive. The concept is that you can specify a music genre, artist, or even track titles, and it will 'listen out' for a match and then record it. I've used Radio Tracker on and off since I received it and have had mixed results.
First the good stuff: It does what it says it will - I gave it a mixture of artists and it promptly went away and started recording streamed music by those artists. It will happily record multiple copies of the same track but tags them with a quality rating, so that you can decide which are worth keeping. You can exclude low bit rate stations. You can exclude songs, or tell it to stop recording copies of something once you've got one you want to keep. All in all very good, easy to use, and the user interface is good at showing you what is happening, what has been recorded, etc.
Now the bad stuff: The quality of the tracks you get is highly variable - and I'm not talking about bit rates and distortion. Radio Tracker depends on the radio stations correctly 'announcing' the start and end of each track and frequently I found my tracks polluted with the start or end of another song at the end or start of my recording. Not to mention the inevitable DJ talking over the tracks as well. You end up having to listen to several copies of each track to working which is the best one to keep. Sometimes that's none of them. And don't forget that while you're running the software, it is consuming bandwidth even if it is not recording. Radio Tracker will track several stations at once so its not unusual for it to consume say 512kbps of your bandwidth. Not something to leave running indefinitely.
In conclusion I was hoping that this software would be more 'hands off' but the reality is that you'll spend a lot of time sifting through the recordings to build a music collection. And you'll have to be prepared to edit out the junk at the start or end of your tracks. The music quality is not bad, but doesn't compare well to the tracks I've purchased from Amazon MP3 or iTunes, or copied from CD. This is a good product to build a party play list from if you don't want to pay for the music. But not so good if you're looking for music to keep. This is a good product, but it is let down by the quality of the radio stations.
First the good stuff: It does what it says it will - I gave it a mixture of artists and it promptly went away and started recording streamed music by those artists. It will happily record multiple copies of the same track but tags them with a quality rating, so that you can decide which are worth keeping. You can exclude low bit rate stations. You can exclude songs, or tell it to stop recording copies of something once you've got one you want to keep. All in all very good, easy to use, and the user interface is good at showing you what is happening, what has been recorded, etc.
Now the bad stuff: The quality of the tracks you get is highly variable - and I'm not talking about bit rates and distortion. Radio Tracker depends on the radio stations correctly 'announcing' the start and end of each track and frequently I found my tracks polluted with the start or end of another song at the end or start of my recording. Not to mention the inevitable DJ talking over the tracks as well. You end up having to listen to several copies of each track to working which is the best one to keep. Sometimes that's none of them. And don't forget that while you're running the software, it is consuming bandwidth even if it is not recording. Radio Tracker will track several stations at once so its not unusual for it to consume say 512kbps of your bandwidth. Not something to leave running indefinitely.
In conclusion I was hoping that this software would be more 'hands off' but the reality is that you'll spend a lot of time sifting through the recordings to build a music collection. And you'll have to be prepared to edit out the junk at the start or end of your tracks. The music quality is not bad, but doesn't compare well to the tracks I've purchased from Amazon MP3 or iTunes, or copied from CD. This is a good product to build a party play list from if you don't want to pay for the music. But not so good if you're looking for music to keep. This is a good product, but it is let down by the quality of the radio stations.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good fun, easy to find your favourite music
The software installed without a hitch via Internet Explorer.
I did a search for one of my favourite artists - The Alan Parsons Project
They do not normally... Read more
I did a search for one of my favourite artists - The Alan Parsons Project
They do not normally... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. P. Stewart
Frustrating experience.
The first problem that I encountered after installing the supplied software was that it immediately connected to the internet and picked up a later version. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by D. Campbell
Does what it says...but not for me
The premise of this product seems to be that it exploits some "grey areas" in terms of copyright to search internet radio stations for music to download to your PC. Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2009 by Stephen Hampshire
I love this product
If you want a programme that searches all the internet radio stations for genres or specific artists or tracks. This really is quite excellent. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2009 by R. Hallett
Tricky to use
The idea of this software is great, or at least what I thought was the idea was great. I imagined that you choose a radio station, say like BBC Radio 3, and you tell it to record... Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2009 by Mr. K. P. Rogers
Good facilities if you can get it to work.
I chose radio tracker platinum because I thought I could get some good free music from it.
The software itself is easily installed so if you are a new computer user you... Read more
The software itself is easily installed so if you are a new computer user you... Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2009 by D. Cottrell
radiotracker
found this quite difficult to use, perhaps I am a bit of a technophobe, but couldn't really get my head round how it worked, my two grown-up sons tried it but they couldn't get to... Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2009 by E. Dale
Very Useful Music Downloader - But Some Quality Limitations
Download music of all types for free from the Internet. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it is... and it isn't. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2009 by G. J. Oxley
A good product let down by the UI...
I was surprised to find out that there was a way to get music for free over the internet which was not illegal, and when you spend as much time as me listening to music and... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2009 by Mr. J. Ward
Absolutely Awesome !!!!! Buy IT
It is really really rare for me to ever award anything I review 5 stars. Seriously check out my other reviews. I've reviewed hundreds of items but this just simply rocks !!!! Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by A. Cresswell
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