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Internet radio is way better than sliced bread because slicing bread is an easy skill to acquire, yet no amount of dial-twiddling will bring thousands of crystal-clear stations from every corner of the globe to your clock radio. Music, news, talk, information: There's almost no limit to online radio's variety, or to the languages it's available in--practically every language in the world. While Internet radio players aren't anywhere near as numerous as the stations they capture, there's quite a variety available, most of them freeware. RarmaRadio from Raimersoft is a free Internet radio player with a different look from most of the competition, but not from most of your programs; it uses a familiar Explorer-style interface instead of stylish skins. It has all the basics you need, such as album art and lyrics and the ability to record multiple stations simultaneously and save the files as MP3s.
As we noted, RarmaRadio's interface looks like a Windows program, not a media player, though it has all the basic features, including Play, Record, and Stop buttons, a volume slider, spectral display, station graphics, and counters. The left-hand tree view lists stations by genre, network, region, and other categories. We spotted Antarctica in the stations list. Turns out it plays a nice, eclectic blend of tunes, just like you'd expect a local, small-town radio station to play, whether it's your town or the bottom of the world. RarmaRadio's programming also lists TV stations, regional and local government stations, and lots of sports. We could open more than one station and track them through the Active Streams button on the toolbar. RarmaRadio's menus and toolbar give it a browser-like feel, with Favorites and History buttons and an active IE link. The Recordings button let us play not only our radio recordings but any of our tunes. A system tray window makes for quick access when the program is minimized.
Of course, RarmaRadio's sound quality is as good as your sound card and speakers, but even low-bandwidth stations tend to sound good when there's no static, and the high-bit-rate Webcasts offer amazing quality.
Publisher's Description
From Raimersoft:
RarmaRadio allow you to listen thousands of Internet radio stations from around the world. Record multiple stations simultaneously as MP3 files. View album covers, lyrics, and station logos. Search for stations or browse by region, network, or genre. Listen to and record lastfm stations.
What's new in this version: Version 2.68.2 has added volume to station properties.
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3.6 starsout of 18 votes
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"Works, but adds unwanted programs."
Version: RarmaRadio 2.69
Pros
Had it downloaded and working in 5 minutes.
Cons
Added two other unwanted programs in addition to this one. Also reconfigured my browser.
Time to get rid of these: 15 minutes.Summary
I know free means they have to get payed by adding this. But this is not worth the hassle.
paid, not "payed". Opps!
Updated on May 3, 2013
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"Very good net radio."
Version: RarmaRadio 2.68.3
Pros
It sets up easy. You can record several different stations at the same time.It has very efficient tagging and separation of songs.
Cons
Occasionally does not want to start recording, I have to click record a few times to kick start it, but not too often.
Summary
I used to use Nexus radio, but every time I updated, it got buggier. It also did poorly at separating the songs when recording to hard drive. RamaRadio does a much better job.
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"The best program of its type, period."
Version: RarmaRadio 2.32.2
Pros
It's basically a program for getting online radio stations from all over the world. But, it also gets all the TV stations that are online which other programs feature and charge for as Free TV channels.
Cons
Nothing I don't like about it.
Summary
If a station doesn't come in on RamaRadio it's because it is off the air. Otherwise, it connects just fine and even gives you the station's logo.
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"Don't know yet"
Version: RarmaRadio 2.32
Pros
Sorry no time to review this version yet
Cons
Sorry no time to review this version yet
Summary
Sorry no time to review yet. Have got a swag of downloads and updates all at once and no time test them yet so cannot review this latest version. Still hopeful it will be OK - the previous one seemed OK in may respects but I did have some problems - the main one being that u have to pay after 30 days (not cheap) and there are free ones around (but not perfect either!)
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"I need to do more testing. Seems better than Radiosure."
Version: RarmaRadio 2.30.4
Pros
Seemed easy to learn and I found the stations I want and marked them as Favourites. However next time I tried I found some probs aand thus I need to do more testing but still hopeful!
Cons
Can't remember what the probs were - can't say they were faults till I test some more.
Summary
See above.
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"I think it can be a popular software, good 1."
Version: RarmaRadio 2.30.2
Pros
the combination of downloadable music program and playback features are good and easy.
Cons
yet I couldn't find anything against using this software.
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"superior program"
Version: RarmaRadio 2.30.1
Pros
RamaRadio offers a better TV program than products I've bought that are specifically offered to give you thousands of free TV stations. I have favorite radio stations from all over the country that I am able to receive on RamaRadio.
Cons
I can't think of any.
Summary
RamaRadio always updates the latest stations.
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""evaluation"-download didn't work>details bottom line"
Version: RarmaRadio 2.29
Pros
interface very functional
Cons
not possible to make e RECORDING in the TRIAL VERSION
Summary
after configuring "trial-version" - completed with setting the "recording schedule", each time a the very last moment a warningscreen appeared that any "error" had occured - so that recording was impossible!
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"It is a very good software... but it has a "shareware" license"
Version: RarmaRadio 2.04
Pros
It is simple to use. It records a lot of webradio stations with a good mp3 encoder (LAME).
Cons
I am very sad because the software has become "shareware". I assign it 3 stars (4 stars if it was "freeware").
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"I Could not get this program to work at all"
Version: RarmaRadio 1.3
Pros
It looks as if this may be a very good program if you can get it to work with your system.
Cons
I tried several times and several ways to try and get this program to work, but it was a no go.
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