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Anyone Seen A Full Streaming Radio App? (Found it: Tuner)

I just installed Tuner....very good BUT!

It'd very useful if we could color label our bookmarks by genre.
I was driving around tonight and with 40+ bookmarks it's very hard to see what genre (or channel) you're clicking.
I wanted to listen dance channel, kept clicking rock channels. It's disaster waiting to happen, quite dangerous driving and trying to read iphone's screen at the same time.

say red = rock channels
orange = dance
etc.

Simple color labels (just like in OSX) for different genres, Nullriver, ya hear?
 
so does the new one still play normal shoutcast streams? i'm looking to try to get pulseradio or di.fm regular streams on it.

i wonder if apple will integrate internet streaming through the ipod interface someday...


thanks :)
 
trunksu said:
so does the new one still play normal shoutcast streams? i'm looking to try to get pulseradio or di.fm regular streams on it.

i wonder if apple will integrate internet streaming through the ipod interface someday...


thanks :)
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Yes. It just uses a different directory provider if you're looking for streams that way.

cenetti said:
Simple color labels (just like in OSX) for different genres, Nullriver, ya hear?
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Unfortunately I don't think Nullriver is reading Macrumors. You'll probably need to email them that suggestion.
 
This app does what I've dreamed of for years. I always said it would be cool as hell if I could have portable internet radio. As I sit here and type this on my laptop, I'm listening to tuner on my iphone and its just crystal clear 128kbps, doesn't skip a beat and this station cross-fades between songs. Uninterrupted tunes. All over 3g cellular network.


The choices are endless. Screw Pandora and their 64kbps MONO.
 
is it true that we have a 5gb soft limit?

then according to my calculations, about one hour 128K listening will be around 56mbs hmm
now say, I use it about 3 hours/day, thats 168mb/day, and 1gb 176mb a week

so that's about 4gb and 700mb a month. Almost 5gb...:eek:

Now that sucks big time.....
 
cenetti said:
is it true that we have a 5gb soft limit?

then according to my calculations, about one hour 128K listening will be around 56mbs hmm
now say, I use it about 3 hours/day, thats 168mb/day, and 1gb 176mb a week

so that's about 4gb and 700mb a month. Almost 5gb...:eek:

Now that sucks big time.....
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No one here can really tell you for sure. Only AT&T knows, and they won't tell you until you hit it. Any limit is likely to be related to operational area; areas with heavily subscribed 3G services would have lower limits than an undersubscribed area, since there would be less per-capita bandwidth to work with.
 
bigrobb said:
with tuner can you listen to local radio station internet streams?
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If your local station offers a Shoutcast compatible stream, yes. However, if it's: Real Audio, Flash, or Windows Media Audio based, you can not.
 
So now that we finally have the firmware 2.0 jailbreak, I did a bit of auditing of Tuner. It looks like they're using the OS's built-in media services (mediaserverd) for audio playback, which is great from a CPU usage standpoint. A 192kb MP3 stream runs at about 10% CPU usage on the daemon.

The CPU killer is the visualizer, that's eating another 40% from Tuner and 10-15% from Springboard that isn't really necessary and is going to speed up what's already going to be a fast battery drain when using 3G. Unless you like looking at the pretty lines, you should shut off the visualizer by going to another screen (I recommend the bookmark screen), at which point Tuner's CPU usage drops below 5%, Springboard to effectively 0%, and the total CPU usage for drops to below 15%.

Coincidentally, I think I've figured out why they're having the AAC+ problems I mentioned yesterday. If they're using mediaserverd for audio, then they're relying on the OS to decode everything. iPhone OS 1.x/2.x doesn't support AAC+, it only supports MP3 and AAC for its lossy formats. So when passing an AAC+ stream, the AAC decoder can decode the AAC baseband stream but not the additional features (SBR/PS) found in AAC+. Accordingly, I think this makes Nullriver absolute morons since they should know that iPhone OS doesn't support AAC+. Perhaps they meant to list/enable AAC support and got things backwards?
 
bigrobb said:
Oh well the 2 stations I wanted are realaudio I will have to see if a different app will work for those
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You'll probably be waiting for a while then. Real makes the player open source and will license out their codecs, but this means someone will have to make a commercial app with it. It's $.25/unit, with a $7500 upfront fee. You need to sell 30k copies just to break even, in that sense.
 
I've just come to a realization that is probably obvious to everyone else, but:

As pointed out by ViRGE, Tuner uses the built-in iPhone audio decoding. What this means is that Safari can be used to play many of the streams that Tuner can; i.e., direct MP3 or AAC streams (non pls or m3u). If the streams you want fall into this category, not only to you save the $6 for Tuner, Safari lets you go to other applications while playing music, whereas Tuner stops playing as soon as you exit.

As I say, probably obvious to many of you, but it wasn't to me!
 
Actually AFAIK that shouldn't work. It may work for a few crudely assembled streams, but the majority of streams include meta data that Safari can't handle. What makes Shoutcast Shoutcast is that it's a stream of HTTP data with header information, audio data, and meta data all encapsulated in it.
 
Just bought tuner - seems to work well. I wish the music could run in the background though while doing other stuff. It's still good when you want to listen to something new. I'm sure I'll get my 6 bucks worth over the next little while!

Why can't I find access to local radio stations that stream online? For example, how do I get access on my iphone to this: http://www.q92fm.com/stream/
 
FlyCast Mobile Native App for streaming radio

FlyCast Mobile is available for free in the app store. You can listen to any shoutcast channel, surf while you listen, pause, skip sometimes, cache.
 
gentlegiantcrai said:
I know this isnt a offically native application, but it is a awesome web app,
Flytunes.fm, they have streams for both Edge and 3g/Wifi

gentlegiantcraig

gentlegiantcraig
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Yes, Flytunes is now native as Flycast.
 
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