Audials One 2020
All your streaming services in one place.
The latest version of multimedia streaming software Audials One makes some welcome improvements on previous releases, with just a few quirks remaining from the 2019 version. If you’re not familiar with the name, Audials One is essentially a one-stop shop for all your music, TV and movie streaming needs. You can use it to stream from Apple Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, and almost any other service you can think of, all through a single interface. It’s fantastically convenient, and makes finding songs, shows and movies far easier than using a separate app for each service.
It’s not all about streaming services, though; Audials One also recreates the time-honoured tradition of recording your favourite songs from the radio by letting you download tracks as they’re played on thousands of online radio stations.
The software can ‘listen out’ for specific tracks in a wishlist and download them as they’re played live. It’s a slightly crafty way to expand your music collection, as recording from live radio stations is typically considered fair game (though laws do vary between countries). Audials has improved that autocomplete suggestions for wishlists in Audials 2020, which is a great timesaver.
Fancy listening to a radio station live, rather than just a single song? Again, Audials One has you covered. The sheer number of stations available could have been a nightmare to navigate, but thankfully the huge list is broken down into sensible categories (pop, rock, chillout etc), which are then split into more esoteric genres. You can also look for stations by country, and there’s a solid search tool if you have something more specific in mind.
If a station plays an advertisement before playback begins, Audials One 2020 will label it with the word ‘Ads’ to warn you.
That’s not the only new addition in the 2020 release, either; if you’re a Spotify user, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now drag and drop multiple playlists into Audials One, and download speeds are vastly improved.
On the video front, not only can Audials One 2020 pull in content from any streaming service you’ve subscribed to, it also lets you watch whole playlists without ads. Audials has worked with Google to make sure this feature is all aboveboard and legitimate, and it’s far more convenient than trying to download videos one at a time using a standalone YouTube downloader.
You don’t have to search each streaming service separately, either. If you know what you’d like to watch, just type it into the main search bar and Audials One 2020 will find and pool results from all of them.
It’s excellent to see Audials continuing to iterate and improve its software each year, taking feedback from users on board, and Audials One 2020 is its strongest release so far.