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What's the best way to get streaming audio in the car?

OhioMediaWatch said:
TuneIn is brand new on Android, and it doesn't have the recording features the iOS version has... yet, but I assume.
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TuneIn is required to block CBS-owned stations on smartphones and Roku (the web version opens the Radio.com player for those). Not a problem since Android has the Radio.com app from CBS. It had buffering problems in the past but it looks like they finally fixed it.
 
There are lots of internet radio app for the Iphone, these apps carry thousands of internet radio stations. When your in "Apps," search "internet radio."
 
I usually just figure out the raw URL to whatever station I'd like to stream and bookmark it on my iPhone. I did this for KHPT-FM before they trashed the station, and I do it now for my internet radio station.

The main problem is that AT&T's network... sucks. I only have a 10 minute drive to work. At least one cutout is guaranteed and it's only a 48 kbps signal. Seriously, I don't know what's wrong here, because I used to stream on my original iPhone on EDGE and it could go on for hours. Contact is up in a few months and I will be canceling the next day :-\
 
I use TuneIn Radio.
 
Update...i just found out i can use the aux jack on my car radio to connect my smartphone for internet streaming...


MusicRadioUSA said:
How do i get my smartphone to stream in the car with bluetooth ? My phone is paired with my car for phone calls but don't know how to streaming radio in my car speakers...I saw an option to make device discoverable do i check this box on my phone for steaming ?
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When will AT & T permit use of multiple devices on one account....1 SIM in this laptop and another
in a device only for on audio stream?
I'm not going pay for yet another device when I can only use one at a time.
I have done the laptop thing for the car and
even on the N side of Chicago out to one near suburb, it is seldom possible to stream over a 1 hour, 20 miles commute
without one or two drop outs. I added a line in/out jack to the factory 1972 AM/FM, and it sounds very good,
but the radio wins out for me because it's already IN the dashboard. And it works very well.
The computer and other devices are trying real hard to be the new radio. and it's not working out for me very well
for reasons of non-robust RF behavior or poor implementation of concept. And I'm paying for this service?
When I get to work, the GSM card is on the razor edge of signal viability and suffers deep fades and only
communicates about 50% of the time with the network.

Since the AT &T system is not very complete or robust, I'm not in too much of a hurry to keep trying to use it for
streaming in the car. Maybe I can figure out a teensy coax cable up to a teensy exterior mounted whip.....

Is there an app that makes a 1930s ciircular (think ZENITH) dial tuner and puts the internet station names on dial
like some radios had city names listed ? Then you'd spin an analog tuner "knob app' across hundreds of choices visbile on-screen, and you'd hear them coming in in real time seamlessly, as you do when tuning a real radio, or would there
be all this maddening silence and pauses that digital seems to do so well?
I really appreaciate the the real-time no-pause no buffer behavior of tuning a real analog radio.
I have only ever seen one consumer "digital" radio that permitted cotinuous tuing without steps and periods of
muting while changing tuning.

Another thing internet radio really needs is the capability good AM radios had of being selectively sharp,
for puposes of adjusting audio ON THE SAME control that did the selecting, intuitively, as it works
with AM. "Center" tuning was full bass and minimized outer sidebands...more to the either side selected "more"
of the higher pitched audio by proportion, and even Grandma could make it sound good.

This ancient proactice of adjusting the sound literally "by the ear of the user" was known as "tuning".
 
KeithE4 said:
TuneIn is required to block CBS-owned stations on smartphones and Roku (the web version opens the Radio.com player for those). Not a problem since Android has the Radio.com app from CBS. It had buffering problems in the past but it looks like they finally fixed it.
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You quoted a message I posted over one year ago.

At the time, TuneIn worked fine with CBS Radio stations. The CBS block is only very, very recent...as in the past few weeks. There are various StreamTheWorld URLs out there if you do a Google search, that work on other MP3 streaming apps. Since TuneIn can't take an MP3 URL, those URLs won't work on it.

Since my September 2010 message, TuneIn Pro for Android was released, and it now records streams.
 
henry said:
Good advice, but I need to clarify my question: I have a nice AUX jack on my car's stereo deck. That's no problem. It's actually getting streaming audio in the car. I'd thought about the laptop + wireless card route, but that's fairly bulky. I didn't know if there was as smartphone that was good at streaming.
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I use the Droid Incredible. Gotta say, the name actually suits the phone! I use an app called XiiaLive Lite (it's free).

Sad to say, I listen to MAYBE 3 hours of terrestrial/traditional radio a week now--the rest is of my listening is to online stations.
 
Last 3 days I've tried to stream audio and it always cuts out repeatedly in the few miles north of where Insterstate
94 and 90 split on the north side of Chicago.

Either there is such poor coverage or poor serving up of data, that a 128k stream won't run.

This is on the interstate while drving that the music stops and starts.
I'm not going to perch the laptop up on top of the dashboard to see if the reception's any better up there.

These particular streams don't seem to buffer, so you can't save up in advance for bad service to be expected
along the way.
 
My observation is that streams over 64 kbs have a hard time on most phones, unless you are in an area that has great cell service. I don't live in such an area.
 
I have four Internet radio streams that I always listen to in my car. I have an I phone and downloaded various internet radio apps including the free live 365 app which carries my stations. I use a small transmitter device which is tuned to a vacant frequency and plug the transmitter into the phone. The stations come in great. There is always some dropout but in general, it works very well.

Jim
Great oldies Edgewaterradio Radio
Www.live365.com/stations/theedge1630

Constant Country KRS

Www.live365.com/stations/constantcountry89

Movin Easy Net Radio soft gold from the 60's 70 and 80's

Www.live365.com/stations/movineasyradio

Dance Fever54. ----Disco

Www.live365.com/station/dancefever54
 
Jun 4th 2010 I purchased the HTC EVO 4G. Downloaded the app StreamFurious. I then purchased a Motorolla Roadster. My phone connects to the Roadster via Bluetooth and broadcasts to the FM dial. You can choose any open frequency in your area : http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/vacant

StreamFurious works flawlessly! I listen to everything from 24K streams up to 192K all on 3G most of the time (4G is available in my area). I cannot tell you the last time I listened to Torture, Terrestrial-Radio.

They do sale dashboard radio units that have bluetooth so you do not need a bluetooth/fm device.
 
grahm said:
Jun 4th 2010 I purchased the HTC EVO 4G. Downloaded the app StreamFurious. I then purchased a Motorolla Roadster. My phone connects to the Roadster via Bluetooth and broadcasts to the FM dial. You can choose any open frequency in your area : http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/vacant

StreamFurious works flawlessly! I listen to everything from 24K streams up to 192K all on 3G most of the time (4G is available in my area). I cannot tell you the last time I listened to Torture, Terrestrial-Radio.

They do sale dashboard radio units that have bluetooth so you do not need a bluetooth/fm device.
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That must be nice to have enough coverage to make the concept work.
You'd think on the near north side of Chicago and the 25 (densely populated) miles out to Wheeling there would be enough people
and cells to make this work, but no, never once has a stream not stopped or paused repeatedly.
The one time in the past year I tried to make a cell phone call it muted once, and when it came back it was too garbled (weak) for
the person on the other end to hear.

I prefer to keep that kind of connectivity here on the laptop, where there is lots of screen space.
The computer into the car radio aux input sounds quite good, and then the phone is free for phone calls.
 
I have Sprint in the Charlotte market and love to stream via my phone to my car. As long as I am in the city limits generally, I have a mostly continuous signal with even 4G in many places. As soon as I am out even just a couple of miles though, I have to live with frequent music dropouts. I do wish Pandora, Slasher, Shoutcast via Winamp, etc, were designed to cache music better than they do. You would think mobile apps would know to cache anytime they have a signal to prevent the frequent dropouts. If one is not bouncing from station to station, the Streaming Apps should cache up at least a couple of songs at once I would think. With the drop out issue I have here however, this must not be the case. (Slasher will cache but only with their pay model). Until the Smartphone apps are better at preventing the frequent dropouts, there will be an issue with just listening to the radio because it is easier, even if one must listen to the bleached music. I can’t wait for the technology to catch up to the listeners.
 
The other day I got a Clear 4G Spot - it takes the 4G signal and generates a local WiFi network. Since I already have the Clear home internet, the spot only costs $15/mo, and $99 for the equipment.

So far, the 4G spot cuts out less than the iPhone 3G.

However, 4G coverage is only available in urban areas.
 
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