[Electronics-Talk] music apps and radio

[bookwormahb at earthlink.net]

Hi all,

I sent some follow up questions to Tracy only and meant for the whole list.

Here it is again with a few more questions.

I plan to buy an ipad mini; Tracy said her ipod touch is good. But for me that is so small making the touch screen buttons more close together and cluttered and with low vision I prefer a slightly larger screen but also something very portable.
Tracy, you experience mirrors that of other blind users though; they like ipod touches and iphones.

I also own a VR trek recently acquired so this gives me access to oo tunes but I did notice it has no fm radio where you can browse frequencies. The older Braille Notes have fm radios and not sure about the new Humanware tablet notetaker; I believe its just internet radio now.

So my questions.

What is on the Tune-In app? Do you have favorite features?
Can siri open the app and/or go to specific stations?
I saw it and noticed it has a favorites list a and browse feature.
I'm sure there is more that I'm not sure of especially since I am not great with exploring a touch screen. Although, I've gotten better at systematically touching it with a finger for exploration.
On this app, how do you find stations you want?
Does it have many stations from large cities such as Greenville SC and NC?
Does it include stations of classical music, oldies, and religious music?

Is oo tunes an app too?
Does it have more or different features than tune-in?

What features do you get when creating a free account?

For those of you who paid some, what features are on that?
Also, how do you find podcasts and what podcasts do you like?
My friend said you can get books too on tune-in if you subscribe to it.
If you have experience with this let me know such as what types of books it has.

If you have experiences with other apps such as Pandora or freegal let me know.
Its my experience that Pandora is not real accessible on a pc. Not sure about tune-in though.

Is radio.com still not real accessible?

For portable radios with frequency browsing, I have found that a portable radio with a traditional tuner works although I cannot read the screen showing the frequency I'm on.
Another option is the VR trek if I have access to wifi and know what station I want.
The other option is my old BrailleNote which has a fm radio as part of the media player.
Another option is the Echo I have acquired recently but I  think the drawback here is you have to know what specific frequency you want. Amazon music has some general stations of certain genres, but they seem to play many songs I do not like.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a radio which talks so you know where you are always?
Thanks,
Ashley