One of the biggest problems with Internet Radio has been that you needed to be at your PC, connected to the net, in order to listen to it. This is what radio was like until the 1950s, when companies like Sony pioneered small, portable, battery-powered transistor radios. If only there were a way to take Radio LabourStart (and tens of thousands of other stations) with you . . . and now there is. Read on!
The latest version of Pocket Tunes, a bit of software designed to work on Palm-powered handheld devices and smartphones, plays Live365 radio stations, including Radio LabourStart. In fact, I'm listening right now on my Palm Tungsten C handheld, connected wirelessly to a wireless local area network (WLAN), using Pocket Tunes. (That's a picture of a Pocket Tunes playing on a Palm-powered Treo smartphone, above.) I can take my Palm anywhere where I'm within range of a wireless network and now listen to this station.
Setting up Pocket Tunes to do this is now incredibly easy -- you just have to add http://www.live365.com/play/labourstart as a playlist. That's it -- it connects with no difficulty and plays.
Now you can take Radio LabourStart with you to the beach -- if the beach is within range of a wireless network . . .
You will need to pay for the Deluxe edition of Pocket Tunes, which costs $27.95 (£14.50) in order to receive streaming Internet audio.
Posted by ericlee at March 10, 2005 12:05 PM