Radium ~ Perfect Internet Radio App Reviews

Unusable, although the iOS version is ultra solid, the Mac version crashes constantly, every 3 or 4 minutes. The older version was stable, not this one...

Been using this App for a few months now on a Mac Mini running latest El Capitan. Works extremely well. It has a minimalist style which I am not fond of, I would rather have a more helpful UI. However, it finds stations when you ask it to on the Interweb and works very well with my Sirius/XM subscription as well. If I had to wish for anything to be better it would be a HOME button or toggle that would allow me to call up the stations that I have marked as faves. It may be in there already but I have not found it. My faves show up when I start Radium but if I go anywhere else I cannot get back to that screen which I will call HOME for simplicity sake. Other than that, it is the best fo the OSX radio Apps I have found.

This icon is horrible

I agree - the iCloud link between the Mac version and the iPhone/iPad works very well and the relationship between Mac and iTunes (or other websites radio) is amazing and works great (it can add a lot of radios in the Mac - Iphone - Ipad application) - In moreover, the after sales service is very good provided

Indeed proper icon :D

Guys, this update is cool. Finally, Radium can deal with Mac OS dark mode, and looks nice on retina display. Great. But WHY did you remove the menu bar menu ??? WHY ???? It was great to change stations directly there, without opening any window. Why don’t you enable the menu bar menu, as it was, when users disable the dock icon ? Please, update that…

I have uninstalled the update to go back to the older version because of the lack of Menubar option … If no update occurs to fix it quickly , I will switch to one other web radio app … The most stupid update of the year !

Realmente bastante leve, excelente.

The app is great. It works and used to be neat and inobstrusive. The latest version though has manage to spoil all that, unfortunately.

Super Update auf V3.0.6. Like.... + Icon + AirPlay + Notification Center + Show Albumcovers + iCloud (Sync) + Works great with CoverToaster App (recommend) - Albumcovers can’t be set to back and can’t change size

The app has always been great. Works just like you’d expect. But the old “chocolate heart” icon has been aweful, almost making me stop using it at all. Finally a great icon. Thanks for listening.

I don’t know what is going on here - The new version doesn autohide it’s window anymore. Real annoying. And it plays random ads while I listen garantied ads free stations...

The new UI looks definitely better but in this version it’s a mess to use. You now have a separate window that remains at the screen if you change the applications focus (you have to click it away). I understand the intention behind this: to show album covers etc. But the unobtrusiveness and efficiency of the former version is now gone. I hope the developers can implement the old behaviour with just the station list below that will disappear if the focus switches to another application. I simply don’t want this additional separate window (kind of nag screen now) at my desktop while I’m working. Now I try to recover the old version and hope for improvements in the next versions.

Where’s the Play/Pause-Button???

I choose Radium for one reason: it was a radio app that stayed in the background. The only user interface element was a menu bar item. Great for a business notebook. The new user interface replaces the minimal user interface by a classical application window. I could use iTunes then. Radium still works as a radio app, but there are some nasty issues: - you cannot control Radium using the default multimedia keys on the keyboard - the volume DOES NOT CHANGE while moving the slider, but only afterwars - the volume must be controlled individually for each output device - Radium does not use the default output device (like an AirPlay receiver); instead, you have to select the individual device in the app

The old one was pretty nice and a 5 star application, I really miss the buttons to pause/stop the radio stream which were in the fly-out menu. With the new release, this is only possible to stop via the main navigation - not very handy.

Perfect example who to make out of a beatiful and minimalistic program a bad piece of software…. Wherer are the easy way to control this up? Why I have to see a stupid cover window instead of the radio station?

.... and then I decided to upgrade to Radium 3. Silly me. Why oh why did you decide to move for a window-based approach? Radium 2 along was perfect ....

So… Radium is still the best Radio app in town. I still love it. So I give it stars… But there is some minor details which me me giving only 4 stars when my heart wants to give 5 : - The menubar icon is a "heart". Ok… but I thoght Radium was a radio app… its like giving an app about racing cars a christmas tree icon ?! But… we love Radium anyway :-D - On Notification Center it display songs changes with "Radium" icon (a chocolate heart… yeah… because… huuh… I think everyone like chocolate !) and Id love to see the album cover art instead (Im not alone in that). - Owners of previous versions of Radium like me have to pay "the same price as everyone" in order to "upgrade" to Radium 3. Ok its a whole new version etc… but Im still wondering about updates on the Mac App Store… arent they supposed to be free ? I mean… anyway… there is so much different point of view on that. - I would love to have a way to choose a country, choose a genre (rock, ambiance, news…) then Radium would display popular radios. A good way to discover new stations :-) What I love in Radium : - New album cover art right on the desktop hmmm thats delicious :-) - Black interface. - All the fonts (I loooove them). - Radio stations icons for sports, rock… thats pretty cool !! And I found a little "hidden" thing. Its called "Tips and Tricks" when you digg in the gear wheel under "Help of Radium". Would love to share it here : - Swipe up or down anywhere in Radiums menu bar area to adjust playback volume. - To assign a different icon to a favorite station, secondary-click the stations icon. - To quickly toggle playback, ⌘-click anywhere in Radiums menu bar area. - Drag any radio station from iTunes to Radium to import it. - Drag any favorite station to any text field in any app (e.g Messages), to paste that stations tuning-in link. - Drag any favorite station to the Desktop (or anywhere else in the Finder), to generate a tuning-in file. - To use Radium as an alarm clock, tell iCal to open any Radium-generated tuning-in file at the required time. I found the last one TERRIFIC !!! :-)) Alarm clock to rock da bed ! But of course you still have to think if your internet connection is down on the morning.. that make me keep my old semi-broken Casio Pathfinder as my only true reliable alarm clock (solar powered, atomic time keeping, 5 alarms… doesnt care if internet is down or electricity, dont need battery, dont need anything, just wake me on time !). I hope my review will help other to make a good choice about Radium 3 .

I originally got Radium as part of the MacHeist bundle and when they released version 3 I jumped at it. I love the revised UI, looks great. There was some issue with adding stations, but I messaged the developer and he was able to add it to main list for me which was awesome. One thing that seems to be missing from the app is the ability to love a song. In the previous version you could do that and it would sync to last.fm.