Radio Tuna
A Desktop Internet Radio Player
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
32bit and 64bit
4.0 MB download
Remember Radio Free Europe? Is there still such a thing? I guess I’ve been remiss in my thinking lately. I forgot that Internet Radio has grown up and now is a viable alternative to FM and AM and even XM and PMS stations. But in order to really take advantage of all that Internet Radio has to offer you need a good Internet Radio player which for me, needs to resemble a radio like those found in 1958 Chevys. But not many do.
And if you know how I like to play with words, then you’ll know how I stumbled upon Radio Tuna. You can tune a piano but you cannot tuna fish. That kind of thing. Did you ever try to smoke a salmon? They are really hard to light…much harder than a cigar. Plus salmon can be very heavy — and scaly.
Seriously. Radio Tuna is a great Internet Radio player with a goofy name, but its controls and easy to use “Genre” search, make it a snap to install it and start listening to your favorite music (or comedy or talk ) immediately – without fiddling around with help files and dials (crock -o- dials?). Just install it and search for your favorite genres — classical, classic rock, heavy metal (like mercury and lead) — anything you want to listen to you can find in few seconds….even old Bill Cosby comedy albums or talk radio.
Today, for instance, I learned I’ve outgrown Jeff Beck. So while I enjoy classic rock because I’m old and decrepit, I don’t enjoy Jeff Beck anymore — no problem. Just click a button and I found the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints, you know. But I quickly tired of Incense and found A Horse With No Name by America. Endless memories from when I was young and vibrant and had all my skin and features intact. It’s a shame we got to get old, Apollo. But darn it, I can still hear and I have a great Internet Radio Player that looks like a radio and plays like a radio — one that lets me find things I want to listen to quickly — and change the channel quickly if I get annoyed by the guitar solo or the wailing accordion.
And do you remember those cool pushbuttons on your 1958 Chevy Radio? Radio Tuna has them too! It’s just like driving in your Edsel again!
The big kahuna at Radio Tuna has this to say: “The Radio Tuna internet radio player is the easiest way to enjoy online radio on your desktop. This installable desktop radio player is one of a kind, utilizing our algorithms to fingerprint and sort radio stations by the genres of music played. There are lots of desktop online radio players available, but only one that incorporates Radio Tuna technology. The new Radio Tuna desktop radio player brings you the radio stations you love, effortlessly.”
I agree with all that totally. I think you will too. Rock on brothers and sisters!
If you like funky music, yeah, yeah, you’ll love Radio Tuna. Honestly — you will.
Oh lookie here.. Radio 181 FM “The Beatles Channel”. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer!
You can download Radio Tuna or get more information about it here.
Enjoy!
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Thank You! Nice and Simple, the way I like it!
Just downloaded this file, and can’t wait to install and try it out! I really like iHeartRadio on my iPad, and I envision this will be similar (maybe better?) for my desktop. I agree with everything you said about getting older–misery does love company. ☺
Being a total ignoramous when it comes to the internet, computers (as well as tons of other subjects) I am curious about how much bandwidth is eaten up when listening to a program such as this…..I have limited bandwidth allowence as I am a HughesNet customer and they are very stingy with bandwidth allotments. Would internet radio eat up a lot of bandwidth?
Very little bandwidth is used listening to streaming music. An MP3 music file averages about 5 megabytes. You would have to listen to about 200 songs to use one gigabyte of bandwidth. 200 songs is about 10 hours of listening. So the bandwidth used is negligible. Streaming movies uses a lot of bandwidth but streaming music uses little.
not published, then why ask me anything?
Seems like this was published to me.
Sounds great-easy-simple-gotta love that!:O) Does this only have Rock music or other choices? Thanks!!!
Thanks, infoave, for your kind reply. I will indeed be jumping on this download. Up here in the mountains, regular radio signals are sketchy and what is available is junk, so this sounds like a great item for me to download and take advantage of. Thanks for the info-ave.
I am presently using TuneInRadio.com and from there I pick my favorites which go from Nostalgie in Paris that plays old Motown, Hawaiian music, TX Hill Country Music, Zydeco in LA, Old Rock and Roll in Baltimore, whatever my mood dictates. This is truly international Radio-from almost any country you can choose. I love internet radio. I also use the TuneIn App, which was free, on my Kindle Fire. With the KF app you can even record songs and make a playlist of your own. The website doesn’t look like a dashboard radio though. I will check this out because I am all for internet radio!!! Thanks for another option, though I am not sure why we would have to dl something to play the songs. I will just have to check it out. Thanks!!
I’m not sure why you’d want to sit there with a Web page open so I’m not sure we’re comparing apples to oranges. You’re free to use what you like. I found it easy to find the genre of music I like with Radio Tuna, and I found it has thousands of stations. When we recommend something, we sure don’t mean what we find is better that what you like. Still I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer to use a browser rather than a small desktop program. You have a program open — you have your browser open. You had to download your browser and you had to install the extension – so you installed two programs to play music. It all depends on what you like.
Hey! this is great. In my humble opinion this is one of the best freeware sites ever offered. A huge “thank you”. I’m so impressed that I’ve downloaded to both my PC & Laptop.Now I instantly have the music of my choice. It’s sooo easy to use. Also thank you for the information re Bandwidth as that was my worry too. I’m chuffed-:)
“Thanks so much”
Thanks for the freebie. I like it. Another freebie I would like to mention is Screamer Radio. The nice thing it offers is a record feature. These can then be transferred to a mp3 player,phone,tablet or whatever you like. I pick a genre,hit record and let it go hrs at a time. Thanks again for the Tuna. If you teach a man to tuna piano he will have one instrument in tune, if you teach him to conduct, he can tuna whole orchestra.