[Electronics-Talk] music apps and radio

[Rik James]

Ashley,
I use the Humanware devices, the Trek and Stream, and the Internet radio a
whole lot. You need to know the station call letters or maybe the city will
help you find it. 

But do remember also that those Humanware Favorites list a lot of stations,
too. I have found quite a number of them to be among my favorites.
I am amazed how much I enjoy the CBC and the BBC, who each have several
stations with a lot of content.

I enjoy being able to record the internet radio using the humanware devices.
That is handy, and you can pile up quite a bit of great stuff.

I also am a happy user of the Tune-in app on my smartphone. 
I cannot say it as easy to do as a visually impaired person, as using the no
vision needed keypad operation of the Humanware Oo tunes device. 
But Tune In, it has a huge amount of stations and podcasts.
I don't like the ads, but oh well. They pop up and you have to find the X
and close the ad to get to the screen. But you get used to it.
I generally find stations by using the Search feature at the top of the app.
After I find the station I press the Heart and that saves it as a Favorite,
then there is a row of my Favorites, which you can swipe left and right and
then tap on the one that you want to play.

Something else that is different when using Tune-in. When you pause a
stream, you can return to it later, and it will resume, whereas on our
Humanware devices, it is only a live real time stream.

The premium service for Tune In might be a good deal, certainly a lot more
content, sports events and so on. And of course it would be nice not to have
to deal with the pop up ads.

If you like alternative and eclectic music on a community radio station, I
might suggest, as a totally shameless personal plug, to tune in to our
KGLT-FM station in Bozeman, Montana, where I host a weekly program called
Americana Backroads, Saturdays Noon to 3 p.m. Mountain time. There are about
80 or so independent programmers, changing shifts about every 3 hours.

Happy streaming!
Rik James
www.kglt.net 

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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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