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We love free Internet radio and TV, even when it's a pain to access channels and stations; the variety of the programming more than makes up the inconvenience. Still, it could be easier, thanks partly to free tools like Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player. Kevin Solway's free player lets you quickly switch between Internet radio and TV stations without opening them individually in your browser. It requires up-to-date versions of both Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. It addition, you have to have RealPlayer open when running Solway's player.
Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player includes an associated tool, Solway's Audio Recorder, which lets you record tunes off the Net as MP3, WMA, or Ogg Vorbis files at three quality levels. The TV and Radio player itself lists stations in a sidebar to the left of the main display. The player's controls are basic, though we could switch between Radio and TV lists, specify broadband or dial-up stations, and show only Favorites. Clicking New or Edit let us add or modify station details using the same properties sheet, which has fields for both Home and Stream URLs. The player includes a decent selection of radio stations and an adequate TV station list that is more than a little typical of free TV players, with plenty of public-affairs channels, national stations, and music video channels.
We started by limiting the lists to broadband offerings, which greatly reduced the radio station list but had less effect on the TV station list, which admittedly is much smaller than the radio list. Solway's doesn't offer a plethora of settings like some media players (RealPlayer handles some of that) but it does let you link to a recorder application (like the supplied default recording app, Solway's Audio Recorder) with the ability to directly access your Windows Recording and Playback Mixers. We sampled a variety of the supplied TV and radio stations. Not surprisingly, we had better luck with the radio stations than we did with the streaming video, but few of the listed TV stations seemed especially appealing. Specifying our own stations produced better results.
Publisher's Description
From Kevin Solway:
Listen to over a thousand free radio and TV stations online over the Internet. Listen to, or watch stations directly, without having to visit Web sites and put up with their slow-loading pages and pop-up ads. No additional hardware is required. This software supports both Windows Media and Real Video, so you can play most stream formats in this one program. Watch video in full-screen if you wish.
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"Especially good for listening to radio, and recording."
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
- Good radio player
- Good recording to MP3
- Free
- No popupsCons
- Not many TV stations available, but this isn't a fault of the player - since it's only a player.
Summary
A great way to listen to and record free radio from all over the world.
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"Does NOT work!"
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
NONE!!!!!!
Cons
Does NOT Work!
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"The Best Free internet TV site"
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
CNET
There are a lot of new internet TV sites out there. most of them offer a free trial or preview and then they make you pay to sign up, or are cluttered with ads. I think that is ridiculous... so ive done my research and have found a couple of really decent sites. The first one Id like to draw your attention to is (viewmy.tv) This site has almost 1300 channels from around the globe and counting. it is free to register and they dont ask for stupid details, just your username and email address. It actually streams live channels so you dont have to download any and they have a pretty easy way of finding the channel you want. You can search through genre, country, region or name of the channel. oh and there are no ads either. Check this one out. With over 1300 channels from hundreds of countries, loads of features like channel rating, user recommendations, live chat, profile pages and much much more.
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"Radio is better than the TV."
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
This player has about 60 radio stations most are played with windows media player, some are played with real player.
It only has 17 TV channels all of the TV Channels are played with windows media player.
Cons
Not all of the TV channels can be played from this player. But if you right click on a channel that will not play, go to the web site and it can be played. Also needs more TV channels added to this player.
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"Nice compact programm"
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
Nice small software, easy to install. option to take audio streams
Cons
Can't take movie-streams, less stations
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"Excellent. East TV stations work well"
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
Good streaming. It use windows media player most of the time. US stations do no work well. East Asia stations are good.
New stations are being added daily.
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"Small but does what it says..."
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
(1) Maybe I stumbled across this or it is intended. Able to open Solway's app, open up a big station site, and then record some songs through Solway - was nice for me to go back and get the information of who played what.
(2) It is simple for newbies like me. &:-D
(3) Installed easily - did not have virus problem described on 02 March. As I also use Antivir, maybe key is where it was downloaded from?
Cons
Documentation could be a bit better.
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"Virus or unwanted program 'EXP/JS.CVE2005-1790'"
Version: Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player 1.54
Pros
nil
Cons
Scanned with antiVir+AVG after download & all was good , until the extraction then-
AntiVir Warning me with audible BEEPS & & best of all the Solution.
