iheartradio UPDATED!

[Vulcan1600]

I heard good things about DroidLive, I'm gonna try it out. I am currently using Slacker and Pandora right now

I mostly use Slacker, the playlist is much larger, better music selection, and even though it doesn't quite have the audio quality of Pandora, it doesn't cut you off after 40 hours. DroidLive is nice too, but you can't skip if you don't like the song since it's all ShoutCast stations.

 

[pandroid]

i like my last.fm app. always gives me good music and scrobbles it too, not only from itself, but from the stock music player too

if you dont mind purchasing a grooveshark.com vip account, then you could get their app. its like pandora but it also lets you play any specific song you want, though i have imusic for that

edit: i posted this in the wrong thread... but i guess it still pertains somewhat to the topic

 

[Riley]

I hope iheart updates again the future with a landscape mode. I would use it in car if they did.

 

[gotta have that funk]

if droidlive adds a widget im buyin it...

 

[qoncept]

Online radiostations are fine, but going back to that from Pandora feels like a huge step backwards. Plus DroidLive is ugly as hell. I'm trying to use iheartradio solely for Bob and Tom, but it's so flaky that I'm about to give up on it. Worked much better on my Blackberry.

 

[cb2000a]

I got a Pandora subscription, but I used to listen constantly without one (certainly over 40 hours in a month) and never got cut off.

I have trouble with iheartradio, including today after the update. It'll stop playing, I'm assuming out of buffer, for long periods of time with no indication of why or if it's going to start again.

Yeah iheartradio does the same thing to me. I listen to Pandora.

 

[Vulcan1600]

It also looks like iheartradio isn't saving favorites. I did one yesterday and this morning it's not listed as a favorite. I would have thought this would have been one thing they fixed.

 

[natediddy1120]

Yeah I'm a BIG Pandora fan and I'll probably stay that way I've tried iheart and slacker but Pandora's quality just seems to blow those 2 outta the water!! But I still need to give Droidlive a try...

 

[640k]

I heard good things about DroidLive, I'm gonna try it out. I am currently using Slacker and Pandora right now

I mostly use Slacker, the playlist is much larger, better music selection, and even though it doesn't quite have the audio quality of Pandora, it doesn't cut you off after 40 hours. DroidLive is nice too, but you can't skip if you don't like the song since it's all ShoutCast stations.

i just started trying Slacker after iheartradio's latest update seemed to have killed connections after they drop. Slacker seems to do the best job of buffering songs so that you can listen to the entire thing, without being interrupted (buffers between tracks).

my only problem with Slacker is it seems to be pretty resource intensive. my phone runs pig slow afterwards.

 

[Vulcan1600]

I heard good things about DroidLive, I'm gonna try it out. I am currently using Slacker and Pandora right now

I mostly use Slacker, the playlist is much larger, better music selection, and even though it doesn't quite have the audio quality of Pandora, it doesn't cut you off after 40 hours. DroidLive is nice too, but you can't skip if you don't like the song since it's all ShoutCast stations.

i just started trying Slacker after iheartradio's latest update seemed to have killed connections after they drop. Slacker seems to do the best job of buffering songs so that you can listen to the entire thing, without being interrupted (buffers between tracks).

my only problem with Slacker is it seems to be pretty resource intensive. my phone runs pig slow afterwards.

I don't notice the slowdown after I'm done like you do, but I'm not surprised if it does suck up the resources. I do notice long delays between songs sometimes because of the buffering. On the BB, they had a cache feature where you could be in airplane mode and get continuous Slacker music. Sure hope that comes eventually for basic users.

 

[qoncept]

Slacker seems to do the best job of buffering songs so that you can listen to the entire thing, without being interrupted (buffers between tracks).

On Blackberry (not sure on Android) Slacker could buffer up to something like 6 hours of music. Really neat if you're going to be out of service for a while. Unfortunately, I don't realy like anything else about Slacker so I just use Pandora.

 

[djstarion]

iheartradio updated again to 2.2.2

 

[Vulcan1600]

iheartradio updated again to 2.2.2

Thanks for the heads up. Maybe it will save favorites this time.:icon_ banana:

 

[Technoman]

iheartradio updated again to 2.2.2

Thanks for the heads up. Maybe it will save favorites this time.:icon_ banana:

I use Cherry Rplayer... works great and offers direct links to several local stations. Allows you to connect to Shoutcast and Icecast also.

Works in Landscape, and seems to buffer just fine.

Did I mention it is FREE?? No subs and no price to download.

 

[Dave Droid]

Finally! iHeartRadio has always given me problems. My biggest concern is that I had full signal strength and it suddenly stopped and would never come back on. The only way I could've gotten radio again was to power cycle the phone.

Kudos to the developers of the app. :icon_ banana: