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Internet Radio for iPhone and iPod Touch

Monday February 11, 2008 12:24 pm PST by Arnold Kim
GCap Media has launched a new mobile website that provides iPhone and iPod Touch users a way to listen to live radio over the internet.

The new site launched at MusicRadio.com provides a mobile Safari optimized browsing experience that allows users to listen to live radio streamed over the internet. 5 stations are presently offered from the London based company:

Capital 95.8 - hits and new music
Xfm - interviews, rock, highlights from the Top 20
Choice FM - hip hop and R&B
Classic FM - classical music
Gold - classic hits

The service also provides users to see the last 5 tracks played and buy them through iTunes on your iPhone. In our brief testing, the service worked quite well with good quality through Wifi.
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Popeye206
Posted: 52 months ago
The concept here is totally cool! Now if they would just let me pause and rewind the Radio too (like TIVO).

The challenge is going to be how this is delivered... of course, you can't be walking or driving around with WiFi access to listen. But I still love this concept and think this is one of the areas that Apple needs to exploit and expand on more - doing so would take the iPod line to a new level changing the playing field once again for MP3 players.

Cool!
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mainstreetmark
Posted: 52 months ago
Yeah! Really! Works great. I don't know if I'd ever use this, but it's a good demo of what can be done!


All this free bandwidth for YouTube and now Radio, yet our tiny SMS messages are (artificially) limited.
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maehara
Posted: 52 months ago

I still love this concept and think this is one of the areas that Apple needs to exploit and expand on more

Yup - a central list from Apple of iPod-compatible radio streams would be a really useful app (or a good idea for someone else to do once the SDK comes out, maybe?). Not much of a fan of the stations featured, but the idea's a good one...
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The Phazer
Posted: 52 months ago

The challenge is going to be how this is delivered... of course, you can't be walking or driving around with WiFi access to listen.


It just about works on Edge too...

This about the single best innovation Gcap has done for years. I remember giving a presentation there a few years ago talking about building a site that linked to stores to buy the track you just heard as a revenue generator, and there didn't seem to be any buy-in at all, so it's come a bit out of the blue.

But a very welcome surprise.

Phazer
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RevolutionOne
Posted: 52 months ago
I'm glad it has XFM on it or I wouldn't have cared.

This is going to get a lot of use

:)
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Drumjim85
Posted: 52 months ago

The concept here is totally cool! Now if they would just let me pause and rewind the Radio too (like TIVO).


nope, that gets into royalty battles... and how many times does the station have to pay the artist for that song play....

there are pretty strict rules on internet radio about that kinda thing... pandora.com (a great site!) talks about that some.
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sammywoj
Posted: 52 months ago
Can the Sirius/XM stream be accessed on the iPhone/Touch via WiFi? I access my satellite internet radio from my home computer now. Would be nice to take it with me around the home or office. If not, is this a possibility soon?
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Popeye206
Posted: 52 months ago
You know... sometimes you just have to try it. :-) For some goofy reason when I read UK... I assumed it would not work in the US... silly me!

Anyway.. I tried it... seems to have some quirkiness to it, and one annoying feature.... when your iPhone sleeps... the connection is lost! Yikes! Still this is cool and I'll have to play some more to see if I have a setting wrong.
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brucebrendon
Posted: 52 months ago
Oh if only the BBC would move away from realplayer etc for some qt. Would gain them instant easy points until their mac compatible iPlayer comes out. Simple. Easy. Ideal. Unlikely.
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madhive
Posted: 52 months ago
Finally!
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