Audials One Review – Audials One is the ultimate all-in-one software for any video and music needs that includes searching, listening, converting, and even auto recording radio stations for the songs you want.
It is also a great software to increase your music collection for free and completely legal (more on this later on).
You can search the music that you want to have with Audials One – it will then search (and monitor) online radio stations for the music that you want and auto-record it for you. It’s simply amazing as you let the software do the work for you automatically.
At first, the software feels a bit overwhelming because there are a lot of menus and options to browse and try upon.
They are pretty clear though so I didn’t even need to find some online help or discussions to help me out. Once I get the hang of it, it’s actually pretty simple to use Audials One. It’s divided into several different modules in tabs.
Audials One Review – Radio
Search for an online radio by name, by Genre, and more. You can even keep the recording on in case you really like a station so much that you want Audials One to record every songs playing through that radio station. There’s even a Scheduler though I haven’t had a chance to play around with it yet.
Audials One Review – Search
If you already have a song in mind, you can use this to search it based on the artist name, album, or the song title. Audials One does not just search for radio stations but also for videos. It can then auto-convert the video into audio (by extracting the audio parts).
Audials One Review – Wishes
Through the Wishlist, you can save all the songs you wish to have and let Audials One searches and also monitors when a song you want is being played. Back in the late 80s, I used to listen to the radio stations with my hand ready on the record button. Whenever my favorite songs were going to be aired, I readied myself to record them to a blank tape (yeah, tape – no CDs or MP3s back then lol). Wish I had Audials One back then.
Audials One Review – Capture
Downloading YouTube videos have always been a problem with me in the past – downloading Opera plug-ins to download YouTube videos, installing third party programs, or did the conversion on some dodgy online sites. Audials One supports downloading YouTube videos and you don’t even need to copy paste the video URL or anything like that.
Simply press a button to let Audials One monitor and download the videos you are watching. It’s simple. You can even choose the quality you want it to download simply by watching the desired video quality. I did this to save those lovely Battlefield 3 trailers in 1080p :)
Audials One – Podcasts
If you are into podcasts, there’s a dedicated section for it too. You can search by categories and also by languages.
Audials One – Converter
This is the all in one converter which makes this one of the most powerful software I’ve ever used. The converter can convert from video to audio and from one format to another.
Supported video conversion:
Supported audio conversion:
Audials One – Organize
I don’t really like any software or media player organizing my files, so I haven’t really played around with this feature much.
Audials One – is it legal to record and download these music?
So is this really legal (downloading music from radio stations and video sites)? Well, it is, and there is even a page full of explanation about it on Audials legal information page.
Besides, you’ll get a lesser audio quality compared to the CD’s and sometimes you’ll get a few seconds cut-off from most radio stations when they are playing the songs. Nevertheless, to some people, it’s still good enough and they can always decide to upgrade and pay for the real thing (or to support the singers).
Audials One can also automatically cut the music off from radio stations nicely and so far I always got a clean cut.
Audials One Review Conclusion
Overall, Audials One is a truly remarkable piece of software. Many applications call themselves an “all in one” software but I’ve never seen anything like this before. Audials One is so much more than just a media recorder and converter. Anything you want to increase your music collection, Audials One has it.
There are many other features that I haven’t explained or mentioned in this review post, so feel free to head off to Audials One product page to find out more. Audials One has received around 600 awards for excellence since 2004, which is not surprising at all.
Good news is, there will be 5 licenses of Audials One to be given away at Craving Tech Audials One licenses giveaway is up!
stay tuned for tomorrow
Note: Audials One Review license was provided for the review
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