Tunein Radio



Price: £1.19 or $1.99
Key Features

•Listen to & record over 40,000 Radio stations.
•Alarm Clock Feature.
•Search for stations by Keyword. •Pause live streams for up to 30 minutes.
•Bookmark your favourite stations for even easier quicker access.
•Sleep timer.
•Browse stations by language, genre, or location.
•View station’s website & twitter
•Find the song currently playing on the station, and be able to buy straight from iTunes
•Listen in the background if your on iOS 4, this feature is also available to 3.1.3 as well via website stream.

Tunein Radio brings all your favourite radio stations AM/FM on your Iphone/Ipod touch; they are streamed via the internet and work over 3G and WI-FI.

Quality
The radio stations are streamed in superb quality. Quality that could match up to proper digital radios, there’s a few seconds delay at the start to connect, but after that you will forget it’s a internet radio.

User Interface
The app is very easy to use, you navigate your way around from the bar at the bottom. Searching for stations is also easy and you use the on screen keyboard to search for the station, either by location (if it’s a local station) artist (to find if a song by your favourite is being played on any stations at all) the name of the station, or genre (Rock, punk, indie, pop, etc). There are also pre loaded categories such as Sport, entertainment, music etc but you don’t really use them seeing as the search option is so good and quick.



Web Browser
The built in web browser is a very handy extra for those on older Iphones or Ipod touches that do not support multitasking, it is a very basic browser but still a nice added feature to the app.



There is also a option for people on older models to run the stations on their safari browser and use all the other apps, whilst listening to the station. If your on IOS 4 with multitasking its not necessary you can run the app in the background, with the station still playing.

When listing to the stations on the app you are also given very detailed info including what song is playing, the artist, the DJ hosting the show at the given time, and where you can buy the song,, this feature isn’t working on many stations just yet.


Recording stations is also a breeze just press the record button and it starts hit it again to stop, the recordings then appear in your recorded section on the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, ready for instant playback whenever you like.



Overall
This app is simply brilliant, it records radio as well as letting you listen to digital & AM/FM stations live, whilst being able to use all your other Iphone applications at the same time, bundled with a whole load more features all for one cheap price. This is a must have for any Iphone/Ipod touch user.

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