Radium ~ Perfect Internet Radio App Reviews

Any station I try to connect to it just keeps loading then gives me the error that it doesn’t work. Even if I try just local stations.

I was looking for a replacement for the sirius web player and this app is perfect! Nice integration with the Mac UI. Fast playing of my favourites station.

An excellent internet radio app: Dead simple. High quality. Customisable with my own stations (on the rare occasion a station I want isn’t already represented). These newer versions support even more types of streams, so stations that didn’t use to play now do. The syncing of stations with my iOS devices is very handy, and I look forward to seeing what features they add next. Most importantly, CatPig Studios Inc. is very responsive, professional, and helpful - when I have encountered issues with specific streams on rare occasions, they have always resolved them after a simple email from within the app.

Just what I was looking. I had 3 stations that I couldn’t find, I emailed them, and they added them right way. Thanks!

Update for 3.0.10: This app is once again fantastic! Working stations, very rare crashes and malfunctions. Just works. Thanks for the great work! Old 3.0.7 review: We’ve been using Radium for a few years and every single use under version 2 was just great. No bugs to speak of, only that some radio stations would stop working when the URL or some other detail would change. But there is a place in the app to request “repairing” a station or adding a new one and this was always handled very promptly (usually 24 hours) and effectively. When Radium 3 was added to the app store, they immediately stopped supporting Radium 2 and its station database. When enough were not working anymore, it was time to pay for the new version. The main improvement is the initial loading speed of the radio stations in the menu as well as the search speed: it’s pretty much immediate. That was the biggest drawback of version 2 and is a huge plus. Unfortunately, there have been severe bugs that successive minor versions (currently 3.0.7) have attempted to address for the last 6 months but persist: - The most annoying are frequent disconnections (sometimes every few minutes) of some radio stations (it’s not an unstable stream, because I am using TuneIn on my iPhone with the same radio stations and there are only maybe one disconnection in 5 hours, always very short and self reconnection). The “fix” is to manually stop and play again; when that doesn’t work, switch to another station and back... - Adding/repairing radio stations is now taking at best a few days; it took almost two weeks last time and their customer service rep complained that the maintenance is too heavy, which makes me wonder where the service will go from here. - Searches sometimes (half the time) just don’t work or take minutes to return a result (the icon just spins). - There is no permanent scroll bar to scroll through the list of favorite radio stations even if the “Always show scroll bars” in the “General” System Preference is set. We use a Mac Mini as a media center with a Lenovo Mini keyboard, making it impossible to scroll. That’s where the search bug above makes the app unusable. We have to quit it and restart a few times before the search works again. On the other hand, the icon already changed twice since the move to v3… First a chocolate heart, now an antenna on a red target… Sure, whatever, the icon doesn’t really matter to me. But please focus your resources on usability. And the best icon what the yellow 70’s radio in v2 (and I’m not that old that it would be nostalgia or anything). We are at the point of looking for an alternative. I will send this to their support and write another review when the reliability is improved in a future version. If that doesn’t happen in the next month or two, we will find another option that works better.

Perfect radio app for my Mac. Clean, simple and straight forward UI. Works everytime with my AirPlay speakers. And customer support from the dev Catpig Studios is excellent. Highly recommend this app.

Easy to use, good support. Worth the money. Very happy with it.

Great little app. Small footprint. But I need AirPlay to be bulletproof. iTunes works where Radium does not, sometimes. So it’s not a WiFi error. If they can perfect AirPlay, it’s a 5/5.

After playing wish list, it stops sreaming stations please fix that, and would be nice to see the theme background color, like on IOS version, the other thing make in option to show app only in dock, and as for the future - make radio as live desktop wallpaper with album, and info on it, keep up!!!

Disappointed that the app is no longer docked to the menubar as in previous versions. It’s a radio app, you’re only in it most of the time to select a station and move on. The app should also disappear when you click elsewhere on your workspace.

not a fan of the new update, really do not like the floating window. would be much better just as a top bar pulldown, select your station, and then disappear back into the top bar. One other thing is please put back the pause (or mute) button.

Much preferred the original menubar behaviour over opening a window. In multi-monitor setup it’s not useful to have the window open on another monitor when I click the menubar icon.

I agree with most comments here, much prefered the menu docking only, no app window, not wanted on my dock. Works great though.

I’ve been waiting for Darkmode on Radium since Yosemite launched. Functionality has greatly improved. I like the keyboard, so I’m using the open/close shortcut ⇧⌘E and then navigating selections with the up ⇡ and down ⇣ keys. The dock icon is a nice feature that you can choose to select. Some people might want a menubar-only option, but I can manage the app faster with the keyboard, so the lack of a menubar-only option is a minor complaint.

Where is the pause button???? I want ot play some other stuff in another app, so I want to pause the radio, but I can’t!! I have to exit the application, which makes no sense at all. The menu bar was way better to operate and understand.

Bring back the menu bar

Simple, accessible, and out of the way. The new window takes a bit of getting used to, but overall the interface is excellent. Pretty easy to find old favourites, and good for finding new favourites too (I don’t spend a lot of time surfing stations, but the interface looks pretty good). Still lives happily in my menu bar (unclick the option to show in dock in preferences). Plays to my Airplay speakers easily (the reason I bought it), has a built-in, 8-band equalizer. I’m reviewing today because I requested a station last week, they responded promptly to let me know they were on it, and they emailed me to let me know that it is now included in their catalogue today. Super-happy with the customer service!

I bought it for 12 bucks - and it has advertisements (with the suggestion to upgrade to get rid of those ads) - not cool! (nice otherwise, once you figure out how it works)

Overall, it’s a great app. Probably the best at the moment. But, unless I didn’t find it, I didn’t found the way to stop the playback, I’m only able to pause. Basically, there’s no playback buttons (Play, Pause, Resume, Stop). In fact, when you click on your favorite radio station, the stream starts. You click again, it resume. It looks great, but what if I pause the playback today and want to play the radio live tomorrow ? I click again and… it resume the today radio show… How to start to listen the live radio ? I don’t know… But Maybe it’s just me. Also, it’d be great to have these playback buttons right from the menu bar (without having to show the entire app)

My review is based on two apps I own, Radium and RadioClock. Radium definitely looks good, but it is slow in scanning. In my observation, RadioClock scans the same station faster. Also Radium is a search based app, while RadioClock gives you an extensive list of stations right away. I am a random listener, and I like to discover new stations from the list. I listen what I see. While I tried entering “genre” in Radium, but it only found a few stations. RadioClock has a pretty extensive list, and I don’t need to remember station names to search. It also has Shoutcast stations. However, unlike Radium, RadioClock doesn’t work with premium internet radio services like Last.fm. But I don’t use these apps to listen Last.fm or Spotify anyway. So here’s my verdict: I would prefer a mix of both apps. Looks of Radium, and functionality of RadioClock. That would be my perfect radio app!