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Revisited: MusicPod – music, podcast and internet radio player

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.

MusicPod playing an album

There’s a full window mode which is rather snazzy, accessible by clicking the up icon (bottom right hand corner).

Full window mode

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

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Ben
Ben
18 days ago

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).

Ben
Ben
17 days ago
Reply to  Ben

Update:

OMG this is so impressive – I made a comment and got a solution within 13 hours.

I am now a fan of this project.

Jake
Jake
17 days ago

Another program that uses the awesome mpv.

Eric
Eric
17 days ago

fooyin’s developer is planning on adding internet radio. It will blow away every internet radio app if it’s half as good as the existing functionality.