TuneIn – Mobile Radio App

So I think I found my new favorite radio app for my Android phone. There are plenty of apps out there, and I’ve tried quite a few of them. I started off with Pandora, which is very popular, but it wasn’t for me. Mainly because I don’t want to have to skip through so many things. My taste in music is very unusual so the idea of an app that learns what you’re into over time sounds cool, but it’s not so easy for the app to get used to what I like. I may hate most of one genre of music but love one band in that genre. I also tried Last.fm which is a similar concept.

I then came across TuneWiki which also uses ShoutCast which was able to play a lot of internet radio stations I really love (like AH.fm, Teklab, etc). Unfortunately is has issues loading sometimes, but it’s not often enough for me to uninstall this one from my phone. After a while I found XiiaLive (the “lite” version of course ). It has a really nice interface and access to a lot of really good internet radio stations.

I live in Las Vegas and there are really only two actual radio stations I will listen to. One is 91.5 KUNV which is a Jazz station. I find it relaxing sometimes. The other, which I listen to almost all the time, is 94.5 “The Vibe” which plays Electronic and Dance music. Unfortunately my particular Android phone does not have a built-in FM tuner (like many other Android phones out there) so I am not able to listen to this station whenever I want. I also get very poor reception when I listen to it in my car. My friend has the same reception issues with this station. Tonight I found an app that plays local stations over the internet. Which means two things: 1) I can listen to 94.5 on my phone and 2) it is perfectly clear!

This awesome app I am referring to is called TuneIn by RadioTime.com. You can create an account so you can add stations to your “preset” stations and also listen online. However, an account is not required at all to use the app. When searching for a radio station you can browse by genre, location, language and you can even enter text into a search box. When you browse by location you go by continent, country, state, city. So if there’s a local station you listen to in another state/country you can most likely find it as long as that station also broadcasts over the internet (which most are starting to do to reach a wider audience).

I’ve provided links to the app below. It is available on Android, Blackberry and iPhone and, of course, it’s free or I most likely wouldn’t be talking about it.

Get TuneIn for:
[ Android | Blackberry | iPhone ]

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