Karlston Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Odio is a cross-platform Internet radio player that can be run on Windows, Mac, and Linux devices natively to play radio streams. Internet users don't need programs necessarily to play radio; some online sites and stations, e.g. the Shoutcast directory, offer direct playback in all modern browsers. Many media players, for instance my favorite music players AIMP and MusicBee, support radio playback as well. Users who prefer standalone programs for Internet radio playback have lots of options as well: programs like RadioMaximus, Screamer Radio, or Pocket Radio fall into that category. Odio is another standalone Internet Radio player. The Electron-based program offers all the advantages and disadvantages that come from being based on Electron: the program is cross-platform but fairly heavy for a radio player. Functionality-wise, it has the basics covered but there is definitely room for improvement. You may browse stations by country, language or tag, or use the built-in search functionality instead. The program supports a good number of stations both in popular and niche genres. Once you have found a station you may hit the play button right away to start playback; there is virtually no delay between hitting the play button and the start of the stream: good. Playback offers basic media playback controls but is fairly limited: one thing you may notice is that Odio does not display song or artist names. Not all stations include metadata in their streams but the majority does. You may add a station to the library for quick access. There is also a recently viewed page to look at radio stations that you played previously. Closing Words and verdict Odio's functionality ends at this point. While that may be sufficient for users who just want playback functionality, its functionality pales when compared to top of the class Radio programs such as StreamWriter which offers all that Odio offers and that much more: from adding radio stations to recording Internet radio streams and even maintaining a wishlist of songs to record when they are played on radio stations. Odio is responsive and it works as a program to stream Internet radio; it may work better for users who don't want to use a browser to play Internet radio, but the lack of features means that it is less attractive than other radio players. Source: Odio is a nice looking but basic radio player (gHacks - Martin Brinkmann) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterupc Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Odio in spanish means HATE... what an awful name... xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 7:21 PM, masterupc said: Odio in spanish means HATE... what an awful name... xD A common funny mistake for lack of general language knowledge. I have seen worse mistakes, like the Mitsubishi "Pajero"! Means according to my dictionary jerk or jerk-off, wanker, slacker, tosser or something like that. Renamed as "Montero"! And, yes, it's a rather featureless player. mostly a nice looking playlist. An interesting detail is to mention http://www.radio-browser.info in "About", resuming 22570 radio stations. You can compile PLS, M3U and XSPF playlist files for your player or play any station directly. Somehow, ODIO fails to mention how to include any of these files to play in the main application. Actually, I could play M3U files with "1by1 Player" simply copying it to install folder but no luck with Odio. EDITED: On 1/4/2019 at 9:41 PM, teodz1984 said: ODIO was probably intended as a homonym for AUDIO We can't really control these homonyms across international borders.. ex. THE Korean word for YOU ARE (NEGA) sounds like the slang for black person.. As wrote, previously, I've seen WORST errors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 ODIO was probably intended as a homonym for AUDIO We can't really control these homonyms across international borders.. ex. THE Korean word for YOU ARE (NEGA) sounds like the slang for black person.. RADYO would probably better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Works on Linux witch is nice On 1/4/2019 at 12:28 PM, luisam said: Actually, I could play M3U files with "1by1 Player" simply copying it to install folder but no luck with Odio. Why do you need too when it uses site radio-browser.info as a database ? If you want to add your own stations there's Tray Radio for windows on Linux i use Goodvibes for these you dont to compile the files all you need is add the link from the station info example http://www.radio-browser.info/gui/#/history/7c150efe-ffb7-11e8-a1be-52543be04c81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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