With this guide, you can record music from internet radio stations, save it as MP3 files for your own private use, and convert it into different audio formats for your devices at home or on the go.
Audials One gives you access to 100,000 popular radio stations from Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries.
Good to know: No copyright protection is circumvented
Radio streams that can be recorded with Audials do not use any effective protection against recording and output unencrypted audio e.g. on the PC’s sound card. Audials always only records such unencrypted audio data. According to US Copyright Law “No action may be brought … alleging infringement of copyright based on … distribution … or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a … digital audio recording device”.
Record radio on a Windows PC with Audials One
Audials One is powerful software that lets you search for, record, and enjoy radio. CHIP recommends the previous version of Audials One as an internet radio recorder.
Step 1: Install and launch the online radio recorder “Audials One”
Download and install the Windows software Audials One for free, with no registration required. If you do not like it, you can uninstall it completely at any time.
Installation starts with just one click. After installing, open the software, click “Radio,” and select a music genre under “Genres” and/or a country. Alternatively, you can enter a search term in the search bar, such as the name of your favorite artist.
Step 2: Play a radio station
Click “Mass Recording.” Choose how many songs from how many stations Audials One should record. Confirm your selection by clicking “Start Mass Recording.” Audials One will now play songs that match the selected genre while recording them at the same time.
Step 3: Audials One records music from the radio and automatically saves it as MP3
Once the songs have been recorded, Audials automatically adds ID3 tags, album covers, and song lyrics. The finished tracks then appear in the playlist on the right-hand side. You can play them right away or simply export them by dragging them into Windows Explorer or another application.
Record radio with the Audials Play app for Android or iOS
As a companion to Audials One, or if you do not want to record on a PC, you can install the free Audials Play radio app. With it, you can listen to and record radio. If you sign in to Audials Play using the same login details as Audials One on your PC, you can also access your music from your smartphone.
Audials Play (Android)
Audials Play (iOS)
1. Open Audials Play and tap “Radio” at the bottom of the app.
2. Enter a search term or choose a country and/or genre that interests you.
3. Play the station and start recording.
Tap the station logo to start playing the station right away. Or, if you want to see full details about the station, tap the station’s three-dot menu. In the detailed station view, you can start or stop the radio recording. Audials Play will save the recording as an audio file on your smartphone.
More about Audials One for Windows
To match your preferences perfectly, you can filter radio stations by country, top artists, top hits, genres, and subgenres, making it easy to find exactly the music you love. Audials One offers everything you could want from radio software. A database of more than 100,000 radio stations provides the foundation for automatically fulfilling all your music wishes. With Audials One, you can do much more than just record radio — you can also record from music and video streaming services.
Discover different music genres and find new music
Here you will find a brief overview and interesting information about the most important music genres available on internet radio stations:
Record analog and digital radio
Stations from Shoutcast and Icecast
Shoutcast and Icecast are freeware streaming servers for audio streams that make internet radio broadcasting possible. Their online radio directories include several thousand web radio stations across a wide range of genres, all of which Audials can access. This gives Audials a huge selection of radio stations for every taste that can be played and recorded at any time.
The Shoutcast directory features more than 45,000 radio stations in music, talk, and sports from around the world. Thanks to the integrated radio web player, you can listen to stations while discovering new ones at the same time.
Icecast has been developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation since 2001. The fundamentally revised Version 2 has been under continuous development since early 2004. In November 2012, Icecast reported more than 14,800 available radio streams, including more than 13,600 in MP3 format.
Terrestrial radio stations
Audials also includes many radio stations that originally came from terrestrial broadcasting and still broadcast that way today. However, these stations now also provide internet streams, so you can keep listening to your favorite station even when you are outside its normal broadcast area. You can play and record these stations with just one click.
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Please note
Music played by online radio stations is copyrighted. Any redistribution of it without the consent of the copyright owners may be a violation of the law in most countries, including the USA. Audials AG is not affiliated with the online radio stations, the music played by them, nor the company that owns the trademark rights to the online radio stations. This page is provided for compatibility purposes only, and in no case should be considered an endorsement of Audials Software products by any associated 3rd party.
