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Originally Posted by Avian

Hey all - hope everyone's doing well! Also thanks to everyone who purchases CDs through the Buy Now link on the what's playing now window - the commissions from that are being well spent by Jim on great new Moonomaterial (not sure if this had been mentioned in another thread).

Saw this article this morning, and wanted to share it with everyone. What do you think? Aural Moon on the iPhone?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...e=search_story

Hi,

Glad to see this post. I've been waiting patiently for something to replace my aging Palm Treo 650. Settled on the iPhone 3G. Because of PocketTunes on the 650, I desparately needed a solution for the iPhone to listen to my favorite radio station.

I am happily listening to AM on my iPhone 3G (presently using wifi but it does work just fine over AT&T's data network too). I had to purchase Nullriver's Tuner Internet Radio (TIR ) software which is found on Apple's app store. Basic software that gets the job done. Strangely, Apple did not provide the same streaming function in the mobile iTunes application that it's mac or PC counterpart has.

Some minor nits. I have seen some out of memory messages already, and it doesn't play in the background from what I can tell. Would be handy for instance to listen while surfing. Perhaps a future enhancement.

Avian, I did checkout that article and AOL Radio does seem like a very nice free addition. For my local area in West Palm, I only found 4 stations, so it's no substitute for a real radio. I couldn't figure out a way to modify the station list in the AOL player to add my own. You would need a way to add the 128k stream somehow into the player. TIR allowed me to do that.

Another problem you are going to find, and so far the iPhone 3G's app store doesn't offer this, a way to listen to the plethora of stations playing in WMA or Real Player. A federated player that is willing to pay all the license fees is needed, but in my lifetime?

Cheers,
Carl