Back in October we at the MacDoctor posted a blog entry detailing our experiences using Rogue Amoeba’s, then new application, Radioshift. In essence the application allows you to source and record live streaming radio stations on the internet. While excited about the promise and opportunities presented by the application, in practice we were quite frustrated by it’s actual performance. Frustrations that prevented us from recommending the software to clients looking for such a solution.
Well, time has passed and we’ve continued using Radioshift, applying upgrades and updates as they’ve become available, and we thought it was long overdue that we paid Rogue Amoeba some credit and reported back with our new found love for the software.
We’re currently running version 1.0.4 under Mac OS X 10.5.1 and the software has been rock solid, recording every single program we’ve asked it to (compared to our earlier findings where 50% of our scheduled recordings proved unsuccessful). The built in RadioGuide can still be a little hit and miss but we’ve simply been manually scheduling recordings. The UI feels a lot more responsive and we’ve seen none of the random error dialogs and crashes we were experiencing previously.
All in all, we’ve a lot more confidence in the software and all use it personally on a daily basis. As a we begin to explore more and more of the application’s facilities we’ve also begun recommending the software to our clients. At last, an application that makes sourcing and recording streaming radio from the internet a breeze.
Good work Rogue Amoeba and three cheers for Radioshift.
Friday, January 4, 2008 at 4:49 pm
When you find guide problems, missing or wrong information, please use the problem link, or go to http://radiotime.com and find the same program/station and press “tell us to fix it”. The guide covers millions of radio station/show combinations and radio changes frequently, so radiotime depends on the community to flag problems. Most problems are fixed in a day. Thanks, Bill Moore - RadioTime
Friday, January 4, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Thanks for the comment Bill. Will do more of that from now on. We submitted BBC Radio corrections in the early days but with our frustrations over the initial release of the software to boot, it just seemed a rather time consuming and unproductive app all round.
With our new found love for the latest stable version, we’ll give the RadioGuide some TLC and make a new years resolution and help to improve the guide.
Keep up the good work, happy new year from all at The MacDoctor.