In Operation
The UI gets a thumbs-up. It has a responsive design, it’s uncluttered although it’s a mite wasteful on screen estate.
There’s a full window mode which is rather snazzy, accessible by clicking the up icon (bottom right hand corner).
Besides playback of audio files, there’s cover art support, playlists, liked songs, and the usual playback options (repeat and shuffle).
The implementation of gapless playback seems the same since our last review with audible gaps between tracks when playing over a network connection. But if your songs are hosted locally, gapless playback seems ok.
Next page: Page 3 – Internet Radio
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Internet Radio
Page 4 – Podcasts
Page 5 – Summary
Whilst it seems this is a slick and functional application – it really fall down for me in at least two respects.
Mostly, with Radio, it dumbs down the interface – not allowing access to basic information wit radio stations instead reduced to an icon, with no information whether it’s coming via an mp3, an aac, or an opus stream… which is vital for choosing between similar stations.
For this reason, the web search of radio-browser remains a far superior tool for the job allowing you to copy the feed link and paste into some other app.
Basically ANY player that can handle m3u for me, as I keep my stations listed in a simple m3u playlist (opens with Audacious, for example, or Strawberry – which then pulls down artwork, lyrics, and other information).