OUT NOW! The Official SHOUtcast iPhone app

[SC_faisal]

IT'S FINALLY HERE...the official SHOUTcast App for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for FREE at the iTunes App Store.

With the SHOUTcast Radio App, you can:

1. Listen to over 26,000 SHOUTcast Radio stations

2. Save Your Favorites

3. "Shuffle Shake" - Feeling adventurous? Shake your iPhone and iPod Touch to get a random station. You never know what you might get!



Click here to download the SHOUTcast iPhone app from the iTunes App Store

NOTE: If you would like to play high quality station streams (ie. 128k MP3) on your iPhone or iPod Touch through the SHOUTcast Radio App, then you will need to enable high bandwidth streams by going into your Settings. You will only have to do this once.

To enable high quality streams on the SHOUTcast Radio App:

1. Install the SHOUTcast Radio app from the iTunes store

2. Tap on the "Settings" icon from your home screen

3. Flick down to the "SHOUTcast" settings. Tap on the "SHOUTcast" Menu

4. Tap the switch for "Allow hi-bit streams" to ON

5. Exit out of the Settings screen by tapping on your Home button and return to the SHOUTcast App

You should now be able to play high quality SHOUTcast Radio streams over 3G or WiFi.


Please give us your feedback by posting comments below. Happy listening.

Click here to download the SHOUTcast iPhone app from the iTunes App Store

[Jkey]

Thanks faisal !.

[fc*uk]

Great job guys!

The only problem I've had with the app is that sometimes over 3g it will say "no internet connection found" when trying to sort by genre or manually search the yp. I've found that the simple work around to this is to have a station bookmarked and start playing the stream.

All in all this is a great app! Keep up the good work!

[SC_faisal]

Originally posted by fc*uk
Great job guys!

The only problem I've had with the app is that sometimes over 3g it will say "no internet connection found" when trying to sort by genre or manually search the yp. I've found that the simple work around to this is to have a station bookmarked and start playing the stream.

All in all this is a great app! Keep up the good work!

Correct. Im also seeing the connection issue sporadically and trying to nail down the cause.

Thanks!
f.

[Justar]

Problem.

Heyja Guys.
First, my English isn't very well, but I'll try my best.
I hope it's ok to Post my Problem into this Thread, otherwise please move it. ^.~

I downloaded the APP and it's very cool.
But everytime i want to listen to my radio, it's says "Connection Error", so i decided to Restart my Ipod + Internet Connection.
But I still got this Message.
The radio got some other Streams too, so i tried one of them and they work fine.

Just the "Only DJ's & Electro" doesn't work, but the counter shows 465 Listeners. :S

I'll hope you can understand me.


p.s. it's M2radio.fr


Greets
Justar

[Greg_E]

Thanks! I have confirmed that this palys aac+v2 at 32k on an iTouch, so this should be good for 3G connections too. Now I just have to work out a few bugs with our IT department so that I can get it to work on the campus wireless.

[Greg_E]

I have a report that it is only mono audio from AAC+ streams, anyone care to comment on this? Wish they weren't so stupid expensive or I might buy one to try.

[fc*uk]

Greg, must have been a mono stream. I randomly picked one and it was stereo.

[Greg_E]

Could you check mine? It could be an aac+v1 versus aac+v2 issue since that's where the parametric stereo comes into play. Search for "Onondaga" we should be the only station listed with that keyword. If it happens to be a basketball game, then it will be in mono as that is all we have coming from the gym. I think there aren't any games for a couple of days so shouldn't be a problem.

[fc*uk]

Huh. That is somewhat odd. When listening through the iPhone's internal speaker everything is mono (mp3 and aac+ no matter what the bitrate.).

I picked a mono stream and got the same results.

[Greg_E]

With the internal speaker it should be mono since you should only have a single speaker. But the line/headphone out should hopefully be stereo if it was done with the Coding Technologies codec. Did you hit my stream with a single device or with two different devices? I have two connections within about 45 seconds from the same IP, and the IP traces back to ATT in Florida.

[fc*uk]

Headphone wise all were stereo (even the mono stream).

I did hit your stream twice with one iPhone within about 45 seconds ... but I am no where near FL. I'm in Michigan!

I thought that the iPhone had two external speakers. But I just googled that and found out I am dead wrong; the other one is the mic.

[Greg_E]

Well your IP runs through ATT in Florida, which seems very far away from the nearest backbone.

That would be dual ear mono which is what it should be doing with a mono station, but if it isn't decoding the PS element it would also do the same with our stereo station. Guess I need to track one of these devices down to listen for my self. The person that told me they are only outputting mono (not decoding the PS element) knows more about this stuff than any of the rest of us ever will, so I kind of take it that he is right. But it is also possible that he used an early version of the app which is why I need to check on this somehow.

Have to send a couple more emails at work tomorrow to see if I can track down an iTouch that I can borrow.

[fc*uk]

I figured as much ... if there is any way I can further help you out, just let me know via pm (I am more likely to respond more quickly that way).

[Greg_E]

OK, this does play aac+v2 streams, but as expected it plays only the mono portion and at about half the audio bandwidth. Think AM broadcast audio and you'll have a good idea what your stream might sound like if you use aac+v2 encoding. Well, it was a good attempt.

I'll have to wait for the next player to arrive, and that player should be pretty soon, and it will support aac+v2 with full quality (don't know if it will be free yet).