FStream for Pc

I'm running this on my iPhone 4 with IOS 4.2.1. This app is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for! Pros: 1) Understands pretty much all formats of streams used on Internet Radio 2) Allows you to decide whether to allow or to not allow playback over cellular network. Very useful as my wife sometimes forgets to shut the radio off before taking the phone from the dock and putting it in her pocket. So I just changed "More->Cellular Network = OFF" and that's it - the radio shuts off automatically when she is no longer within the reach of our home WiFi. At the same time, we can still play it even over cellular network if we need to (say, the kids are getting fussy and want to listed to a story, etc) - in that case we make a conscious step to enable cellular playback and keep track of time to avoid AT&T surcharges (we are on 2GB/month plan). 3) Playback continue in the background! I can turn my favorite Internet Radio on and then go on with my life of reading and replying to emails, viewing presentations, etc etc. Cons: 1) No way to customize the home screen - can't change the background, skin, or anytthing like that. Highly recommended!

Don't get me wrong, I really, really like this app. It's put together well, and most everything about it makes sense. There are, however, a couple of changes I would make to the software in order to improve it for that 5th star - 1) Add the ability to import and export radio stations as either a standard text document or XML format data. 2) Create a desktop-side program that links up to this app, in order to do file management for recordings and station management. It can even be a JAVA, Flash, or Silverlight based webapp that runs inside the browser. 3) Add nesting for radio station genres, similar to what iTunes does with it's radio stations. Otherwise, I've enjoyed this app for a while now and I love the fact that I can be in the car and listening to a friend of mine's internet radio station wherever I have 3G service (my wife and I have a Verizon 3G router, which is useful on long trips). Updated - so the new version works fine on iPhone 4 but not so much for the first gen iPod Touch thanks to the iOS 4 limitation. However, there's NOTHING in this app that needs iOS 4. recompile it with iOS 3.x compatibility and I'll give the stars back. Oh, and you can add iOS 4 features without breaking compatibility with iOS 3 and even iOS 2 (but why on earth would you still run iOS 2?)

For an app that hasn't been updated in years, it performs decently. Sure, sometimes you will have to manually restart a stream...but when you consider that I first started using this app with iPod Touch 8-9 years ago...8-9 years of nearly daily service...how can you not love it? I dream that one day it will be updated. Of course, it won't. Now I dream that I will be listening to this app as I shuffle off this mortal coil. IGNORE THE NAYSAYERS, this app works fine with reliable streams. HINT: Increase the buffer size if the stream/local network is poor.

I use this app on an iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.0.1 and have had no problems. This is a good app for streaming WMA streams that some other players such as Tunemark won't handle. Some of my favorite internet radio streams (such as WPNA Chicago and KBRW Barrow AK) do not come pre-loaded in any radio app so I had to enter the streaming URLs manually. This is a minor annoyance. this app seems to drop the stream a little more often than other apps, but hey...you can't beat the price. I use it every day!