The best radio app in town !

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 .

Montrealex about Radium ~ Perfect Internet Radio, v3.0