Flycast is now out. I tried it out and it worked nicely today. It had many more radio stations, but very few for my large metro area, which was surprising.
I listened to ESPN out of Rochester NY. A few times the audio stopped and I had to go back in and restart it.
Their app has weather built in, which is nice, but un-needed.
Their comment system is supposed to be like the Android Market, but their star tool didn't work very well. I wanted to try give something 5 stars and I had to click each star, but the far left star (1 star) didn't want to light up no matter what I tried.
The interface is what we are growing used to seeing in many other media player apps. I felt it was a bit laggy. I would like to see it snappier in response to my touch. I can live with it, especially as they begin to learn the Android SDK/OS compared to Blackberry and iPhone.
They have a lot of ads supporting this. They hopefully pay for the service and it will remain free.
Worth a download at this pricepoint, would like to see some quick evolution, to make it a regular. Especially the ability in a live broadcast to figure out it dropped the audio and go get it again.
One interesting thing the station I tried had a time shifting option, it said I could go back and listen to any segment of the broadcast of the past hour in 15 min chunks. Of course this cool feature didn't work.
I listened to ESPN out of Rochester NY. A few times the audio stopped and I had to go back in and restart it.
Their app has weather built in, which is nice, but un-needed.
Their comment system is supposed to be like the Android Market, but their star tool didn't work very well. I wanted to try give something 5 stars and I had to click each star, but the far left star (1 star) didn't want to light up no matter what I tried.
The interface is what we are growing used to seeing in many other media player apps. I felt it was a bit laggy. I would like to see it snappier in response to my touch. I can live with it, especially as they begin to learn the Android SDK/OS compared to Blackberry and iPhone.
They have a lot of ads supporting this. They hopefully pay for the service and it will remain free.
Worth a download at this pricepoint, would like to see some quick evolution, to make it a regular. Especially the ability in a live broadcast to figure out it dropped the audio and go get it again.
One interesting thing the station I tried had a time shifting option, it said I could go back and listen to any segment of the broadcast of the past hour in 15 min chunks. Of course this cool feature didn't work.