Comments on: Phantom 105.2 on the iPhone?

By: Brian Daly

Brian Daly — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:19:40 +0000

Hi, the good news is that the Phantom iPhone & iPod Touch app is now available in iTunes. Just search for Phantom 105.2 in the app store. The app is free and available in all territories. Key features are:

- streams 48K AAC+ stream. Good quality while trying to keep the data requirement down.
- “Now playing” info – song and artist
- View the Phantom Twitter feed
- E-mail the studio
- You can also mimimise the app and surf the web via Safari.

Enjoy!

By: Brian Daly

Brian Daly — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:37:42 +0000

Just as an update …

Two other apps worth trying – Shoutcast Radio and Wunderradio. The shoutcast app is free and you can listen to our 64k and 128k streams in Mp3 format. The 128k stream has “now playing” information as well.

http://blog.shoutcast.com/2009/06/19/new-to-the-iphone-download-the-shoutcast-radio-app/

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:40:39 +0000

@Brian The iPhone iTunes is not like the computer version, it’s pretty much a store only. Meanwhile the iPod part doesn’t allow streaming, thus the need for a new app or a server hack.

By: Brian Daly

Brian Daly — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:35:53 +0000

the best thing they could do is equip all iPod/phone devices with an FM radio. Radio is still the number one source of new music for the masses and ultimately it would lead to more iTunes sales.

I had a look at the application and it seems to be difficult to get in touch with the originator. It’s a pity that there seems to be a fixed directory of stations as there is always a possibility that a station will change the URL of its streams.

Phantom has three stream types available: AAC+, MP3 and WMA. You can stream MP3 in iTunes, perhaps this is a workaround?

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:02:14 +0000

@mulley Can you feed that URL into Quicktime Player directly? Or does it not have that ability? (If not, never mind.)

By: NiallOK

NiallOK — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:31:46 +0000

I know you’re all about the radio on the iPhone right now, but how about telly?…

http://chriscarey.com/projects/mythtv/iphone/

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:21:32 +0000

@jh When I try that I just get the shoutcast page and it won’t allow me to stream the er stream

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:00:07 +0000

“Very few Irish stations use RealPlayer”

Except for everything coming out of RTE.

By: Cian

Cian — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:23:39 +0000

Very few Irish stations use RealPlayer – . I did a check of all the licenced services a while ago (so its missing iRadio 102-4) to see which played on my obscure OS that has no Flash, RealPlayer, etc. Most did.

http://gaelstar.com/beos/irishradiostreamstatus.txt gives a rundown.

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:32:40 +0000

If you’re allowed to add actual streams, the contents of the playlist file you linked to point to a ‘pure’ URL of http://media2.vistatec.ie:8020/

Does the phone have a Quicktime player? It should be able to do something with that. No idea if you’ll be able to do anything *else*, mind.