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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Source: http://flytunes.fm/

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KimH

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!!

July 10 2008 at 8:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

woobert

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

May 19 2008 at 1:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott

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?

May 18 2008 at 12:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mstngo

try

seeqpod

kind of the same but you can search for specific artists

May 17 2008 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

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.

May 16 2008 at 7:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iGO

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

May 16 2008 at 6:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shaun

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!

May 16 2008 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dave

crashes on 1.1.1

May 16 2008 at 3:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pretty Boy

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.

May 16 2008 at 3:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nate

This is great! I've been playing with it for the past couple minutes and it sounds great! And it's totally smooth.

-Nate

May 16 2008 at 3:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply