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Nullriver Tuner has quickly become a killer app for me. Tuner is a streaming Internet radio client. What this means is, you either select one of the 500 or so pre-loaded stations (URLs) or you enter your own. The player then loads up the station.
Why pay $6 for this when AOL radio is free on iPhone, as is Pandora? It's all about selection. Pandora is great for music, but doesn't do news. AOL radio has all of 4 stations in Houston. Not knocking that, glad to have them. The point is unless you want those (mainstream radio) stations, no local radio for you.
Me, I like Houston's KUHF NPR station. KUHF plays news at rush hour (and a bit on weekends), but is classical the rest of the time. They actually have an HD radio signal that broadcasts news 24/7 (ditto classical and Spanish language). But unless you want to pay $200 for an HD tuner, no 24/7 news. Thankfully, they also stream the HD channel online, and using Tuner I can listen to it.
Tuner has some shortcomings though. Signals drop too often, and I'm not sure if Edge is fast enough to stream all channels (the bit rate - quality and bandwidth required - is shown next to each station). But the core functionality -- streaming customizable Internet radio -- is a winner, and well worth $6.
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I am having trouble adding this to Tuner. How did you do it?
Took me a while to figure this out, too.
Tuner > Search > Open... > URL
Then paste in the URL from the web page, in this case (if I recall correctly):
http://129.7.48.199/KUHF-HD1-128K.m3u
Don't worry about the Title, it will auto-set that.
(For HD2 replace HD1 with HD2 in URL).
Good luck.
Oh and can't paste of course (grr), have to type the URL.
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