Audials Music Editor's Review

Get your monthly music fix with Audials Music Rocket, one of the best players available anywhere.

I've been a singer/ songwriter and musician most of my life. To say that I have the music in me is a bit of an understatement. Thanks, in no small measure, to the 128GB iPhone 7 Plus in my life, I've got my entire digital music collection with me all the time, every day, out loud. And loud it is, as I love listening to tunes while driving. It's what I do...

Finding new music, however, can be difficult at times. Yes, there are streaming tools like Pandora and Spotify, you can get access to new streaming titles, but as I've said before, I like to own my music and not just lease (read: stream) it. That's probably the biggest reason why I'm such a fan of Audials Music Rocket for Windows. It gives you access to a huge music library that you can download for free; and its available for a PC near you.

Audials Music Rocket allows you to find and download new music, fast, legally and for free. With it, you can listen to internet radio stations, podcasts and music TV broadcasts. The application offers fast downloads and will even do video to audio conversion from well-known music portals on the fly. You can save music in MP3, WMA or AAC file formats, legally and free of charge.

Audials Music Rocket will create a playlist of songs automatically once you tell it your favorite type of music, by identifying a "reference song." Its Top Songs feature then creates the playlist to match your taste in music. With its auto play mode, AMR will automatically play that music for you, too

With its Wish List feature, Audials Music Rocket can monitor thousands of radio stations and music sites automatically. Whether you're looking for singles, whole albums or an entire discography, AMR can find it and send you an alert when the station or site is updated. You can also use the app to update ID3 compatible song tags, album images and song lyrics, prior to adding them to your music collection. 

App Pro’s: iTunes integration, universal player 

App Con’s: Expensive in today's app market, non-standard Windows interface 

Conclusion: I really have to admit that I didn't want to like AMR. I'm very picky about my music apps and as such don't venture too far from the OS or device defaults. I don't even do a lot with Pandora, Spotify, Shazam, Last.fm or Lala. However, I was really, very pleasantly surprised by Audials Music Rocket. I really like this app; and you should, too.

The app provides a number of different ways to do new music discovery. It provides a wish list function that will also update you when new items matching your likes are found. You can download all the music to your PC and sync it to your device and update your iTunes music library as well. This... this was a very pleasant surprise, and now has me doing music discovery from my Windows machines.

While the app is a little on the expensive side for a modern desktop app, its easily offset by all of the new music you're going to get and find. If this isn't part of your default Windows setup, it should be. Stop what you're doing and download the app now. You won't be disappointed.