Nokia's own Internet Radio application - or rather its absence on its S60 5th Edition phones - left a pretty big hole in the power user's software catalogue. In this feature, Ewan investigates a number of (mostly free) alternatives - can you still stream radio to your smartphone in 2010?
Read on in the full article.
The old original version of Internet Radio works on 5th edition, but you have to make/edit your own .pls file.
Used to use it happily all the time on my i8910, at least until almost all US stations were blocked outside the US. 😡
I'm glad AAS did an article on this.
God sakes Nokia, just what on earth is the hold up for internet radio for v5?
It's like rocket science for Nokia 😃
I would be grateful for a tip how to change the volume in the Nokia Internet Radio.
e90 does not have volume keys on the outside. There are volume keys inside of the clamshell but the
app closes when you open the lid.
Tune wiki has a shoutcast button and it works very well, with loads of stations. I think its excellent
I used tune Wiki on my n97 as well and it gives full shoutcast streaming and the app is free in the ovi store. worked great.
Just to mention a little confusion built up by a tiny orthographic error in this article. This "NRG" name you are refering to is only used by an Albanian station. The application you are discussing here is using the streams of diverses NRJ radios (with a J). Those stations are brands from NRJ International (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRJ_International) that currently airs in more than 20 countries. In all those countries (speaking either deutsch, finish, english, ...) NRJ is called NRJ, not NRG. To complete, NRJ International a French group built on the original NRJ french radio (meaning "Energie" similar to the english "Energy).
Nokia really does baffle me sometimes, why would they not continue one of the best things they have going for them? Steve I suggest use your Nokia convincing powers and compell them to make it like you did with Free Ovi Maps. you know they're reading!
I recently found a couple of nice applications that are working on the i8910, hyperx 3-29 rom.
tunin.fm - large selection of shoutcast stations organized by genre. not the slickest application but works.
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tunewiki - used for viewing lyrics to music, but also has a tab for shoutcast stations. They have quite a large selection that should satisfy most people. They even have a youtube lookup tab, but it is currently not working on s60 devices. They are looking for beta testers though!
These 2 plus mobbler and my streaming needs are met.
I used to use plain real audio streams to listen to the bbc when I was using Symbian and I use wma on Maemo. Aren't these good enough?
It would be nice to have RDS like features...is that the added value of these clients?
This is the reason why people are flocking to Iphone and Android.
Since I have the 5800, now over a year already, I use the built-in Realplayer for listening to internet radio. Every Shoutcast or other radio streaming link I added to the E:/Videos map is bookmarked and will play fine in the Realplayer.
For instance, the direct link to the Dutch Radio 1 station stream is:
http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8100/
When you copy this link (without any BBcode, so without the [url] tags) to an ordinary text file, name it "Radio 1.ram" and copy it to E:/Videos, the next time you open the Realplayer you can find it in the Streaming links folder.
Happy listening!
Unregistered wrote:This is the reason why people are flocking to Iphone and Android.
Lol..'flocking' to Android? Hahaha..you armchair analysts never give up do you?
Coreplayer is awesome application. So it is not compatible with 5th edition and has issues with its UI, you still can play ANY asf to wmv streaming (also known as mms://). Then all you need to find any site, that streams in WMP format, copy its address and play. You can save the address of streaming audio as .m3u or .asf extension and open it in Coreplayer.
Is an app really needed? Can't you use the browser to access something like <https://www.reciva.com/> which has stations from just about everywhere? I don't have a Symbian handset at the moment (using N900), so can't check this crazy idea of mine...
May be the N900 web browser can handle that because its an Internet tablet.
It's just another minority requirement. Nokia have left it to the third party developers.
@raka . It sounds like a brilliant idee . Video streaming finds any .ram file . URL http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8100/ gives an error : "videoclip can't be played" . Anyway the URL has to start with rtsp: , but also rtsp://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8100/ no avail .
The combination rtsp://http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8100/ gives an URL error "not valid" .
What did I wrong ?
😊 Regards jApi NL
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I have been using http://www.yourmuze.fm since I read of it here http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/94469/
Works a treat on my N97 and i8910.
You forgot Lonely Cat Games Jukebox!!! It has shoutcast integration! It also has a niec miniplayer on the frontpage, a finely tuneable qualizer and much more steps in the volume control then the standard stuff! Worth updating the article for imho.
raka Thank you! Made my day 😃
I am having a lot of difficulty finding the right radio app. I have been listening to my favorite ShoutCast radio station using TuneWiki. However, they recently removed this station from the directory (apparently to force users to use their official app on iphone and android for the sake of ad revenue, but don't have one for symbian yet), so I can't use TuneWiki anymore. I am now back to using the "S60 Internet Radio" app (the beta version of the Nokia Radio App from their labs), but I am not happy about it, because it has no control on the volume and often misbehaves (sometimes the volume is very low for no reason).
Looking at alternatives, I can play this specific station using Real Player, but it is buggy. E.g., after the device autolocks, its UI becomes unresponsive (i.e., after unlocking the screen, I can no longer control it). The other issue is that if the app goes into the background, it will stop playing, so I have to keep it always in the foreground. I was hoping the "Nokia Internet Radio" in the OviStore will serve me better, but it gets an error during the launch, in fact there is not even an icon for it (I can only try to launch from the OviStore app). CorePlayer is also not an option for me, since it is not supported on s60 v5.
Which other app would support playing from an arbitrary stream? If it supports mms and realaudio streams, it is a bonus. I am using 5530, if that matters.
Update: Just to clarify, I already tried Shazam, Mundu and Mobbler, but neither has a way to play radio streams.
Paul Holmes wrote:It depends, do you want the App Store? Cuz the App store is ONLY with apple, although there is Droid which does have a seperate appstore, and so does Zune. Personally though, I think the iPod Touch is the best choice, it's whatever you want though.
gloriatrstn wrote:There are no any an alternative for Nokia Internet Radio on on S60 5th Edition devices. But the oldest original version of Internet radio works on 5th edition. But here you must have to do edit, create, delete in your own .pls files only.