Digital Home Thoughts: Review: InstantFM Music

Product Category: USB Radio
Manufacturer: ADS Tech
Where to Buy: Low Price Search
Price: $35 to $50 USD
System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 or later, available USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 port, minimum of 1GB (5GB recommended) of free disk space, 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM (512MB recommended), Windows Media Player 10.0 or higher, and an Internet connection for Web Radio, Song identification and other information (e.g., album art, reviews, etc.).

Pros:

• Software does an outstanding job of identifying, tagging and creating MP3s from songs broadcast over FM radio;
  
• Recordings sound as good as original broadcast;
  
• Software/Hardware combo a great value.

Cons:

• No AM radio;
  
• RDS does not appear to be widely used by radio stations;
  
• Potential quality issue with antenna.

Summary:
Remember making mix tapes of the radio back in the day? Well even if you don't, ADS has a great product that allows you to automate most of the process of recording music broadcast over FM. If you are interested a device that will listen to the radio, identify the songs, and make MP3s of them for you, then this is a product for you.

Read on for the full review!