Make your iPhone listen to your radio -- and tell you what's playing

Picture it: you're riding in the car and a great song comes on the radio. You're dying to know what it is so you can go buy it ASAP but there's no satellite radio receiver to tell you what's playing. How can you find out what song it is? Whip out your iPhone, put it near the car speakers, and watch the screen. Poof! There's the song, artist, and album.

No, I am not kidding.

Our own Erica Sadun was inspired by someone who came up with the original idea, she set off to make it happen, and the result is Listen. It's still "very beta" but, hey, it's still one of the coolest iPhone hacks I've ever heard of. Go check it out and let us know in the comments how it works for you.

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Picture it: you're riding in the car and a great song comes on the radio. You're dying to know what it is so you can go buy it ASAP but...

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Tmac123555

can anyone help me download this feature please? when i click on the listen icon some page pops up and says cant open page, zip or something like that, well if anyone can help me please email me at mjtmacgino123555@verizon.net or IM me on aim at Tmac123555, thank you all

March 20 2008 at 9:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nash Deshpande

Any further progress on this app? The app was taken down from installer a long time back, and there seems to be no development activity on it...

February 13 2008 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

leo

I just get:

Song Results:

Song: is a Sony Ericsson and Gracenote Artist.
We can only allow Sony Ericsson phones.

January 15 2008 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew

This app has completely stopped working for some reason. Every single time now it says "Connection Failed". Does not matter if I am on WiFi or EDGE. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. It still will not work. This app is the only reason I am not updating to 1.1.3. Erica please help!!!

January 15 2008 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Arod

Im experiencing the same problem. Is there a fix for this? or how can one install the old version?

January 13 2008 at 8:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nash Deshpande

same here, old version was working fine... new version says "connection failed"... though when i updated 2-3 days back, the new version was working fine as well... any fixes out for this yet?

January 13 2008 at 6:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kincas

The same were. Old version worked fine. New one never manage to work, always return "connection failed".
:(
Is there any way to restore to the "old" one?
Any place to get it?

Tks

January 12 2008 at 10:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wafa

the old beta version worked fine, the new one ver. 0.6 does not work and sometimes crashes the iPhone. I always get the message "connection failed".

January 12 2008 at 8:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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something

I'm experiencing the same thing. The old version worked about 75% of the time for me over EDGE but the new version won't work at all, not even over WiFi. My guess would be that the increased number of users is too much for the servers but that's just me giving Erica the benefit of the doubt. :)

January 12 2008 at 9:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mikael

It's amazing how many iPhone haters constantly feel the need to sling mud at the iPhone on all sorts of web pages. If you dislike the iPhone so much, how come you read news about it? It strikes me as odd.

I should be getting my iPhone tomorrow and this app is on the "must be installed" list.. Thanks Erica!

January 10 2008 at 5:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mike

I assume you have to 'jailbreak' the iphone? Sorry but I am not about to do that. Would rather live without this stuff than to have it rendered useless down the road.

January 10 2008 at 4:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply