We are happy that we successfully completed running three different giveaways of popular softwares. Starting from July 7, 2010, we were running the Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway, in which we were giving away 5 licenses each worth $40 and valid for 1 year. Then, starting from July 11, 2010, we were running the Mediaraptor Platinum 4 giveaway. In this giveaway, we were giving away 10 free licenses of Mediaraptor Platinum 4, each license worth $40. The next giveaway was of CodySafe Sigma, which started from July 14, 2010 and we were giving away 15 licenses of CodySafe Sigma, each worth $9.90.

To take part in those giveaways, all you had to do was subscribe to our site updates and comment in the respective giveaway pages. The last date for participating in the giveaways was July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7), which is over now. Today, we will announce the winners of these three giveaways.

But before announcing the winners, We would like to thank Emsi Software GmbH, Rapidsolution Software and Codyssey for providing us with the free licenses for the giveaways. As usual, we used Random.org’s List Randomizer service to decide the winners. You can watch the video (Adobe Flash required) of each draw below. If you cannot see your email in the draw, it will be either because you never confirmed our subscription or you never subscribed to our email updates. Now, without wasting any more time, here comes the results!

Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 Giveaway Winners

1. Nature
2. aungzeya38
3. Cappydawg
4. Ansuman Mahanty
5. deanxx

Mediaraptor Platinum 4 Giveaway Winners

1. malkhaz
2. ded
3. ibheck
4. bethel95
5. Suhan
6. amon
7. John
8. paf
9. Damian
10. Kishore Bongirwar

CodySafe Sigma Giveaway Winners

1. ibheck
2. ROHIT
3. jon
4. Adrian
5. vhick
6. Rofy
7. Diane
8. k19s
9. dun
10. kezako
11. Cappydawg
12. corker
13. Bionic
14. Lee
15. azziz

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the participants for making the giveaways successful. Don’t be sad if you haven’t won this time, as we are planning our next giveaway soon!

Winners will receive their free licenses within 7 days. The reason for the delay is because of the number of licenses that we have to send and also we have to take care that the correct person, receives the correct license of the product they have won, and we don’t want any mis-matches here! Hope you can understand the cause of the delay in sending the licenses this time. Even after seven days, if for some reason, you don’t receive your license, then please send us an email to or just comment below, asap.

Mediaraptor is a superb application that can find millions of music videos and songs from social media websites for you. It can then record and convert the music video, or simply find the MP3 format of the song, depending on its search results. It can then convert them, according to your choice, in a more portable formats or in standard WMV and MP3 format. Unlike Tunebite and Radiotracker, the two other products from Audials, Mediaraptor is pretty much very useful out of the box. Mediaraptor can save video tracks from several social media sources, including MySpace, Esnips.com, YouTube, Hulu, and others.

On starting Mediaraptor, you will find the user interface quite similar as seen in Tunebite, Radiotracker, and the ultimate of them all, AudialsOne, divided into two parts.

On the left, you can search for the artists whose songs you want to convert and save the files and Mediaraptor will automatically fetch and tag your files correctly from the Internet. You can also create a Wishlist to simultaneously watch a thousands of internet radio stations. You can also record media content directly from the browser as you surf the media sources.

On the right, you will find an in-built media player to play your recorded media, that also displays you lyrics, cover art and other details. You can easily burn your media files to a CD, create ringtones for your phone, and export the file to play in an external player like Winamp, iTunes and Windows Media Player. You can also synchronize your portable media players.

You will also find the Organize feature that we have seen in the other products of Audials. When you click on Organize you will be able to manage your music and video collection present on the computer easily. You can reorganize all your media files with just a few clicks. You can easily add correct ID3 tags, cover album, song lyrics, and other details to your existing media collection.

Mediaraptor is the best app for the music lovers to fill up their hard drive with tons of music and videos downloaded straight from the social media sources, and organize them too.

Unfortunately, there is a bit of legal ambiguity when using Mediaraptor. Mediaraptor is a very powerful app and it’s ability to find MP3 files that others may have illegally posted to social network sites is the main cause of concern here. You can be safe if you keep in mind while using Mediaraptor that even though it may find these illegal MP3 files too while searching, but you’re not supposed to download those files to your own PC. To stay on the right side of the law, just use Mediaraptor to grab the official music videos from places like YouTube and ignore the MP3 side of this app. For more information about the legal aspects of using Mediaraptor, please read here.

Mediaraptor is available in three versions:

• Mediaraptor Free that can record up to 40 tracks or videos per session and convert them to MP3 or WMV, respectively. You can use it for free without registration.
• Mediaraptor Premium which can grab an unlimited amount of music from social media sites and video clips from places like YouTube and retails for $27.
• Mediaraptor Platinum that can do targeted searches and multiple file format conversions, available for $40.
• Finally, if you want the joint functionality of Radiotracker, Tunebite and Mediaraptor, you should go for AudialsOne, retails for $60.

How to win a free license of Mediaraptor Platinum 4 worth $40?

Rapidsolution Software has been very kind to sponsor 10 Mediaraptor Platinum licenses to be given away at this blog. Its simple and the same rule applies like our previous giveaways and our present running giveaway of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.

First you just need to be a subscriber of this blog and secondly, leave a comment on this page using the same email address used for subscription.

You can take part in this giveaway until July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7). The winners will be randomly picked and announced on July 21, 2010, the same day when we will announce the winners of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway.

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Websites:	Homepage
Manufacturer:	RapidSolution Software
Platform:
Version Tested	AudialsOne Platinum
Version Number	4.0.28408.800
Build Date	Oct 15, 2009

Overview

AudialsOne gives you instant access to over 40,000 Internet radio stations spread over 80 genres, 70,000 artists with millions of songs, international video, music and podcast portals. Simply enter in an artist or song title and AudialsOne will take it from there. With AudialsOne, every Internet radio station in the world is just a push of a button away. It offers unbeatable capabilities for targeting and downloading unlimited quantities of the free entertainment you’re looking for.

AudialsOne, developed by RapidSolution Software, is a complete suite which includes all the features of their other three products, viz, Radiotracker, Tunebite and Mediaraptor. It also includes powerful features like AutoTag, Podcast, a powerful media organizer, in-built music and video player, ring-tone maker, disk burner, convert media into the formats you need and also remove DRM copy protection.

Review

Installation [9/10]

Installing AudialsOne is very easy and you just need to follow the installation wizard. After selecting your installation directory, the installer asks if you want to integrate your existing music collection or not.

During installation don’t forget the to consider installing the LAME MP3 encoder.

After the first installation process, it will ask for confirmation of Driver installation.

Then the installer will configure Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.

At some point of installation, the Security Center pops up a message about installing RapidSolution driver, click on Install here to successfully install AudialsOne.

Features [9/10]

AudialsOne is having almost all the features that any music lover can ask for. The included features pretty much takes care of all your entertainment needs. Everything is accessible through the main user interface and is just a click away.

When you first launch AudialsOne, you will be in the Radio tab, if you want to record some music of your favourite genre or from your favourite Internet radio station or social radios like last.fm, imeem, pandora or soundclick, just select the desired genre and click on Start Recording. AudialsOne will automatically start ripping songs for you, tag them, download other media information, lyrics, etc and save the songs automatically.

If you click on the Stations button, you can browse through different genres of Internet radio from around the world. Here, you can add manually Internet radio stations which are not present in the list. If you select a lower bit-rate for the streaming stations you will end up with a lot more results.

You can use the Search tab to search for music or videos of a particular artist or song. Under Search when you click on the Artist button, you can browse through a large database of artists.

One of the notable feature of AudialsOne is the WishList. Using Wishlist, you can search the web for music and videos by artists that you have specified. You can compile several wish lists, and switch between them. AudialsOne saves all your wish lists automatically.

The Web functionality provides a convenient way to get music and videos from any websites like Last.FM, YouTube, etc. AudialsOne automatically keeps track of all media played back in your browser, and saves them to your computer.

If you like Podcast, then AudialsOne is a very good podcatcher. If you don’t know what a Podcast is, don’t worry we are here to help you out. A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. A simple definition will be, Podcasts offer regular shows like radio or television series. There are thousands of podcast offering news or entertainment shows as well as podcast dedicated to specific topics. You can add podcast to the list to listen or download or watch podcast episodes.

Using Converter, you can remove annoying DRM from the audio and video files that you own to easily transfer them to other computers and portable devices or you can simply convert your audio and video files to other formats. When converting there are different formats you can convert the files to depending on what you want to play them on. I did a test with some of my DRM audio files and AudialsOne lived up my expectations and perfectly removed the DRM protection while keeping the quality of the file intact. Full marks here to AudialsOne.

AudialsOne comes with a powerful feature called Organize. You can organize all your multimedia files and categorize them into Artists and Genres. You can let AudialsOne automatically reorganize all your media. Here, you will find a nice feature called Autotag. Autotag searches the Internet for meta data to tag your recorded mp3′s. It also finds album artwork and lyrics from a variety of sources. If you have lesser known music you can also manually edit the tags as well.

It also includes a ring-tone creator, if you want to create ring-tones for your mobile device. You can create ringtones by clicking on the Mobile button.

The in-built burner allows you to burn tracks to a disc.

audials TV is another cool feature for watching music videos of all music genres from the web.

AudialsOne features portable device synchronization. Just click on the Gadget button to configure and synchronise your portable device like your mobile, MP3 player, etc with your music collection.

Ease of Use [9/10]

Even though it is fully feature packed and many things going on simultaneously in AudialsOne but everything is laid out nicely, just a click away and is very easy to use. AudialsOne allows you to find tons of streaming music and video from around the web to download or view or listen. You can easily filter the search to a particular genre or artist. Click on Start Recording to download the media from the web. You can then view the progress or listen to the currently ripped song while AudialsOne is saving them to the hard drive.

Performance [8/10]

Overall AudialsOne performed very well. It successfully ripped and processed audio and video quickly on my AMD system running Windows 7, while I was using the Organize and using the in-built player to listen to the music simultaneously. But as you can understand that running all these processes is surely going to take up resources, but it didn’t bog down my system at all. As I was also using Chrome to surf the Internet and also had other programs running. As you can see in the screenshot below, the first screenshot is taken when I was doing all the stuff said above and the second one when AudialsOne was only ripping songs and videos.

Product Support [9/10]

RapidSolution Software offers free customer support for AudialsOne through a variety of channels that includes FAQ, a dedicated forum for each of their products and email support which is answered within three working days.

Conclusion

AudialsOne is the best online media downloader and recording solution that any music lover can get. AudialsOne helps finding and downloading music and video very fast and easy process. You can easily remove annoying DRM protection from all your current media. AudialsOne is offered in two versions: AudialsOne freeware to test all the functions and download only 40 songs and AudialsOne Platinum which retails for $59.90/€ 44.90

Warning: Using AudialsOne can result “in an unlimited dose of entertainment every second, quickly filled up GB’s even TB’s of hard disk space and using the full potential of your unlimited Internet connection!”

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