Filed under: Audio, iPod Family, Freeware, iPhone
FlyTunes Brings Free Streaming Radio to iPhone & iPod Touch
One of the features of a lot of iPhone wannabes is a built-in FM radio so you can listen to your local stations. Why limit yourself to local stations? FlyTunes is a free streaming radio service that gives you access to over 375 channels of music, news, and sports on your iPhone or iPod Touch.Most of the channels are EDGE-friendly, so there is no need for a WiFi connection. To sign up for the service, all you need to do is point Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch to flytunes.fm, and then follow the on-screen instructions to sign up.
How well does it work? Pretty darned good! It took me a minute to figure out that I needed to tap on the play button twice - once to bring up a small arrow and another tap to bring up the QuickTime player and start the stream. It only took about 5 seconds for the stream to queue up and start playing, and I didn't hear a hiccup once during about 5 minutes of listening over an EDGE connection.
Head on over to flytunes.fm and get your fill of free tunes today!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Stephen said 2:39PM on 5-16-2008
I wish I could get this service on my car stereo. I'm stuck with either really weird college radio where the deejays play "experimental" John Cage-type stuff or mainstream radio and it's very limited playlists (can we say, Foreigner, anyone?).
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Macroy said 2:50PM on 5-16-2008
You're as cold as ice.
John Bell said 2:54PM on 5-16-2008
I tried this during the private beta, and it wasn't as good as promised, nor as functional as advertised. I would queue up a station and it would play well for 10 minutes and crap out over EDGE. Often it wouldn't hop from wifi to EDGE, and stop loading (it only loads about 90m of music per session, and sometimes reloads the same 90m batch if you requeue it).
It should also be noted these streams aren't exactly "live" - they're prerecorded from radio stations and played in batches.
I hope it's better now, I'll give it a go to find out.
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Nate said 3:00PM on 5-16-2008
This is great! I've been playing with it for the past couple minutes and it sounds great! And it's totally smooth.
-Nate
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Pretty Boy said 3:14PM on 5-16-2008
This service is great! It was a lot less robust and useful during the beta, however they have worked out several bugs and now there's a noticable difference. Couldn't ask for more on a free service.
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dave said 3:33PM on 5-16-2008
crashes on 1.1.1
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Shaun said 4:57PM on 5-16-2008
I've been using this for probably 2 months. i use it to listen to some tunes (or loveline lol) whem i'm going to sleep...
I'm still waiting for a "real" streaming app...let's hope that Apple allows them on the app store!
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iGO said 6:52PM on 5-16-2008
Very Nice. FREE, ...can't beat it!
......The ONLY reason I will ever use this is for The NY Sports Radio, better known as WFAN NY.
I never listen to music radio. For all my music pleasure, I have a 32GB iPod Touch.
Very Nice at High Bit Radio....Thanks
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Fritz Laurel said 7:49PM on 5-16-2008
Looks promising, but it's too bad they don't let you put in the station you want to listen to. You have to select from their (highly limited) selection. And since they don't have either of the two stations I listen to, I won't be using it.
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mstngo said 5:17PM on 5-17-2008
try
seeqpod
kind of the same but you can search for specific artists
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Scott said 12:03PM on 5-18-2008
I think it is great. I've found the experience at home, via wifi, to be excellent. RadioParadise on my iPod....how long have have I waited for that?
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woobert said 1:19PM on 5-19-2008
I just added streaming stations to ooTunes. Its not free, but you put whatever station you want in your iTunes library and it should work. It can even transcode on the fly so any station will work over edge. Check it out at ootunes.com
Steve
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KimH said 8:02AM on 7-10-2008
Just an update: FlyTunes submitted its native app to Apple on Monday & should be available in the app store on Friday! Many upgrades from the web app, but still FREE!!
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