[Electronics-Talk] music apps and radio

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Leslie.
I use OOTunes, as well as TuneIn.  I use OOTunes mostly to listen to oldtime
radio.  It's easy to use, and to search for stations or genres.  It
automatically starts whatever station I was listening to last, next time I
start the app.  
It seems to more reliably say the name of whatever's playing than TuneIn.  
I'm pretty sure I have the free version, and it lets me record things, so,
if I fall asleep or get interrupted, I can listen later.  
Tracy


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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

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