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Softonic review

Find and download music

If there's something I really hate, it's when a program has major good points counterbalanced by major bad points. It makes it really hard to write a proper review! Unfortunately, I'm in this situation with MusicTuner. This app finds and downloads audio tracks and allows you to listen to and save them to playlists and your hard drive. It also acts as a music player based on Windows Media Player.

In the past, MusicTuner was a free application, so it was easier to overlook some of its flaws. Since our last review, however, the application has become shareware, with a ridiculously short 12 hour trial period. All features seem to be fully functional, however, so you can search for and download tracks, play and organize music already on your computer, browse the internet for new music from within the program, edit your track information and back-up your playlists. There are a number of configuration settings, including hotkeys and a range of skins, but I found I could only change MusicTuner's skin once.

That's a pity, because the MusicTuner interface is horrible. It's non-standard, user unfriendly and the skin I was stuck with made it difficult to view text. I also found some of the program's menus buggy and, in all, using the program just wasn't very pleasant. That aside, MusicTuner makes it easy to search for music, and even features tutorials that you can use to get acquainted with the program. It searches quickly and presents results clearly, and from that point of view was quite good. Unfortunately, I really didn't enjoy using MusicTuner and can definitely say that I wouldn't download it myself.

MusicTuner has lots of potential, but some serious wrinkles to iron out.

Updates in this version:fixed up creditsadded more artists to the searchboxupdated top artistsfixed some text in local libraryimproved local library

Changes

  • Updates in this version:fixed up creditsadded more artists to the searchboxupdated top artistsfixed some text in local libraryimproved local library

PROS

  • Lightweight
  • Tutorials available
  • Searches and downloads quickly

CONS

  • Lacking features
  • Non-standard interface

Program available in other languages



User reviews about MusicTuner

  • Anonymous

    by Anonymous

    MusicTuner.
    Few things you should know as users:This version changing skins was messed up, and has been fixed. (DO NOT USE THE GLASS SKIN!)The 12 hour period only goes down when the application is in use, so that is actually a lot of time.Perso More


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