Review
AudialsOne is a multimedia downloader and player all in one. In its most basic form, AudialsOne is just a music and video discovery service. It can search on literally thousands of online radios by name, author, or simply genre. Results are abundant and you can start listening to a radio station in a matter of seconds. But the addition of a music and video "recorder" and a file converter gives a lot of depth to this app.
Perhaps the best aspect of AudialsOne is how well integrated all of its functions really are. In my evaluation of the program, I started listening to a random online radio. The quality was very good and it didn't stutter at all. It connected and played for as long as I wanted it to. While I was enjoying some music, I decided to look for that song that I had to download. I went to the Search, typed the name of the song, and I got a bunch of results in a little while. Some of those were videos, and some were songs. But you can opt to only get one, or the other. I went for songs, since I needed the MP3 file. AudialsOne downloaded a file, converted it, tagged it and put it in my playlist in under 5 minutes. To tell the truth, AudialsOne best feature is not the speed, but I still thought it took a reasonable time to download a song. No complaints there. I personally liked that the application paused my radio playback in order to play my downloaded songs. It is a small detail, but it shows the work behind the app.
Although the file converter is used automatically when downloading music off AudialsOne, it can also be accessed separately to convert any file on your computer. There is also support for Podcasts and you can record anything to files that you can save on your computer and then play anywhere. The application takes care of DRM and copy protection for you, so you don't have to worry about it.
As a plus, AudialsOne comes with an app called audialsTV, which has preloaded a variety of video channels from all over the world. Most of the built-in channels didn't work, but you can add more from another list. |
