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[ TorchBrowser. com ] installer stub starts off with 15 negative reports at Vitus Total, the installer itself has 6 negative reports at virusTotal — that requires a lot of research for me to feel comfortable with ( Maxthon, another free browser, phones home to Beijing, and takes over your computer as a fallback default browser indefinitely, and takes a lot to exorcise ( hey, that would be a great name for an uninstaller: THE EXORCIST ! ), all programs phone home, I guess, but 6 to 15 negative malware reports, really ?!? ).
See some background on Torch Browser at [ https :// en. m. wikipedia. org/wiki/Torch_(browser) ]
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Audials main program has 0 — zero — VirusTotal hits ( what “spyware” do you think is in Audials ? ).
Audials starts as a 151 MB installer, and then creates 528 MB on disk ( 270 MB on a compressed disks ).
Audials has an incredible breadth and depth of features, not the least are:
— simultaneously downloading and cutting dozens of songs from dozens of sources,
— cutting pieces of songs together to make one clean version instead of getting stuck with announcer voice-overs,
— automatically downloading any number of songs according to search criteria.
That takes a lot of resources.
Audials is awkward, complex, counter intuitive, system-challenging, and the results are still only as good as whatever the radio stations choose to play ( I got a lot of cross-song fades and fade-ins and fade-outs, NOT satisfactory, but NOT Audials fault ).
I can think of no better resource to actually find and download new-to-me music.
In the prior 2 days, I have found half a dozen artists who are new to me, artists that I find interesting and compelling enough to have then downloaded their entire discography, some through Audials. most through other free resources.
Audials is just a tool, a tool that can be used by savvy folks to accomplish a vast array of different Internet radio tasks to search, sort, select, and download whatever content is out there.
I can search for new-to-me music elsewhere, outside Audials, but not also automatically download it.
Alternatively, to download clean music, I’m happy with free AbelsSoft YouTube Song Downloader and other free resources that get entire clean songs.
If someone knows of another Internet radio recorder that can also record continuously and on schedule, please share ( I found those features while digging in Audials menus, I’m sure there are additionally many more features in Audials that I have not found yet ).
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I will have to learn how to sandbox in a virtual isolated machine to test Torch Browser, thanks for the heads up about it.
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