What is a “finick”?

That is only your biased opinion trying to push a particular solution that is lloking for a problem. “Traditional radio” is much less cumbersome to use than Internet players.

I turn on my radio, turn the tuner to the frequency I wish to listen to and I am listening to my favorite music. I don’t need a PC. I don’t need an Internet connection and all the hardware/software that requires.

I am not limited by the poor audio quality of speakers connected to my PC. I don’t have to worry whether I will be allowed to listen to a particular station in my country. And, best of all, it all comes to me FREE!, as in beer.

I will admit that Internet Radio offers more choice of “stations” but since I can only listen to one “station” at a time, it ultimately does not matter.

Internet Radio is one of those “When you’re a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail” applications. Just because you able to do something, does not mean you should do it. I could never understand why people watch movies on their smartphones just because they can. Wouldn’t it much more enjoyable to watch movies on a full-sized screen, or atleast on a 40″ or 50″ or bigger TV screen?

@Yuri,

Corrected the information about Advanced Radio Player in the article…

Everything you wrote about him is not true.

First, it only supports internet streams (not FM).

Secondly, it can only be used in the KDE Plasma 5 environment.