Audials Radiotrackers was a huge slow install which proved to be a large waste of time. After playing with it for 10 minutes, I lost patience with its clunky, non-intuitive user interface and its US-centric offerings. The final straw after struggling with the (astonishingly poorly designed) genre search feature was discovering that the wishlist it generated "could not be used in this edition" - today's GOTD is not the full commercial product, it's demo-ware!

Incidentally, why does a software house based in Romania with an international customer base give such a strong impression that the designers are oblivious to non-American music and podcasts? And why is the English language interface plastered with dozens of American flags? It's irritating to say the least.

Getting rid of Audials Radiotracker was a real pain. Even though it demands a reboot to uninstall, it doesn't do the job properly. It leaves behind numerous folders inside My Music, My Videos, over 50Mb of data in Application Data (with folders both All Users and your personal folder) and about 65 registry entries. I spent more time cleaning up all this mess than I had installing it in this first place. Oh well, at least it doesn't seem to have broken anything.

Sorry to be so surly but I can't quite bring myself to say thanks for this one.

Julia  –  13 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+291)

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Hi, first of all - Happy 4th of July to All GAOTD American Supporters and Experts. Your Help here is greatly appreciated!, You would be perfectly excused if You were taking it easy today:)

Having said that - we would gladly see Your points of view on Today's Giveaway. My experience with Radiotracker8 SO FAR is very similar to Julia's #6..

I too wondered what "Standard" stood for, but when installing it to USB Drive (too large for my C:) - 2 Options appeared giving impression it was EITHER Standard, OR - USB. That off course proved to be misleading. "Standard" becomes obvious when you see "Buy now" button for "letting you use all the functions completely"(?).
Wish-List is the first "casualty" of Standard Ed. I will not go into pricing of all RapidSolution Software, but when visiting their Site before downloading today's Giveaway I checked it out too, hmm.

Installing and emptying the files took a long while, strangely - after having opted for USB Installation and activating it promptly I was surprised to see that it went back to Window Installing and checking Microsoft Visual CC+, I then routinely checked where the Files went while installation took place, usual places (except Registry) Temp Files (Setts&Docs/Local) added few Folders and App called USB Unplug Monitor exe (also a Process while running Software), new Folder in My Music, nothing in Common Files, no new Services.

My Laptop runs on ATI Technologies and I could see straight away that this App - drags it down, is "clingy", slow in response - All that before even going into the main purpose of getting into Music!
After "blundering" through Genders and not being able to achieve anything there I had to leave it - second Attempt was exactly the same:((, oh and had to be "end-tasked"..

I'm afraid I won't have much (if at all) fun with it. It's either for faster Computers with different (to mine) Graphs, or the paid Edition works better. I'm not dashing to Upgrade, quite opposite!
If I could see it's doing basic tasks(!) swimmingly - I would perhaps be tempted. As it stands - My position on Wish-List stays at the moment: Wish it WORKED!, lol.

fran  –  13 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+83)

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For me, not a useful program since the Wish List feature is not functional in this GAOTD version. I don't really want to download hundreds of random mp3s to my hard drive unless I can specify exactly which ones I want.

Marc  –  13 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+64)

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I installed this as described in the read me file but there still is an upgrade/buy button on top. Is this a full or a trial version of the software?

Lisa  –  13 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+63)

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This application does not shut down properly without using task manager to kill the process. This is a suspicious behavior.

Gazebo Guy  –  13 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+62)

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