[Redflea]

Originally Posted by StuartV

I would be satisfied with BerryTunes and consider shelling out for it, but for one thing: the UI for listening to the radio sucks.

It really needs a transport UI - i.e. play/pause buttons that you can click, so you don't have to go into a menu just to stop it playing. Barring that (or, actually, even better), keyboard hot keys for starting/stopping. Space seems to start the selected preset, but it doesn't stop it. It just starts it again. There is no online help built into the app, so I can't tell if maybe there's some other hot key and I just don't know what it is.

It is somewhat important to me to be able to quickly and easily stop it playing. I have assigned my right convenience button to bring up BerryTunes, so it could be as simple as two button presses to stop it playing, even if I am in the middle of some other app. But, it's not.

What about just pressing the Mute key? That's what I've been doing...I can then close it down at my leisure (via the convoluted two-step process required).

I agree w/your comments on the UI - neither pretty nor efficient, but it is at least simple to figure out, and it has been nothing short of amazing in terms of streaming capabilities compared to Dollar5, MFRadio, and another streaming app I tried a while back (can't remember the name).

I don't get any stutters or skipping at all - just like the real radio.

Definitely worth the money to me - I have missed having access to NPR when I'm out and about. Just wish my local station offered MP3 streaming...they are on windows media and have no plans to change...

[walds11]

I echo the same thing. I use Pandora on my desk-top.

Originally Posted by dmiller1856

I wish Pandora would offer support for Blackberry.. That is one awesome radio app on the iphone.

[zx475ti]

i have a sirius subscription and want to use it on my blackberry along with a fm station on occasion can anyone tell me if any of these apps will stream sirius radio and stations running from the streamaudio.com site. the fm stations i want to hear are theboneonline.com and rock105i.com, and sirius online. any help would be appreciated. im new to this bb stuff.

[kingston73]

Originally Posted by jamespaulritter

I don't know why anyone would pay a monthly fee to get XM or Serious or what ever they pay for.

I guess you're not a Howard Stern fan. That by itself is enough to justify spending $13 a month for Sirius. And for the last poster, I too have been trying to find a way to listen to Sirius on my 8310, and no luck so far. I can't believe nobody has created an easy to use app for this yet!

[Redflea]

FYI - I tried Xplayer...nowhere near as good as Berry Tunes for streaming radio. Very happy camper w/Berry Tunes. If they can just improve the UI a little...but I'll take high quality, stable streaming over UI quibbles any day.

[ChristopherRI]

Just tried this and I really like it. Is there a good resource somehwere that lists stations that have streams that can be added. I want to add 630 WPRO from Providence, RI - but I don't know if it streams in a way that is able to be added to berrytunes. This streaming stuff is all new to me.

Thanks!

[Redflea]

I sussed out the process below from James comments above (the second post in the thread from the OP) about Shoutcast and PLS files...there may be an easier way, but so far the steps below have worked for all the stations I've wanted to listen to.

Go to Shoutcast (SHOUTcast | Free internet radio!) and search on your desired station's call letters.

In the Shoutcast search results, Right-Click on the "Tune In" button next to the station you want.

Select Save Link As from the right-click menu and save the .PLS file to a folder on your hard drive. (Or use whatever process you want to save the file to your hard drive so you can open it.)

Open the .PLS file w/a text editor (e.g., Notepad) and you'll see something like the following (this is from the PLS for KQED in San Francisco):

Originally Posted by KQED .PLS file from Shoutcast

[playlist]
numberofentries=2
File1 = [u r l = h t t p: // 205.234.249.144:8000]SHOUTcast Administrator[/url]
Title1=(#1 - 311/2000) KQED Public Radio
Length1=-1
File2=http://205.234.249.144:80
Title2=(#2 - 478/2000) KQED Public Radio
Length2=-1
Version=2

Take the URL from above (h t t p ://205.234.249.144:80) and enter it in to the Add Station dialog in Berry Tunes (Open the Radio option in Berry Tunes and then select "Add Station" from the menu.

Save the new station (it will be added to the "Favorites" section) and click on it to listen.

There are two URLs in the .PLS file for KQED in the .PLS file above...some .PLS files I've seen have even more. I don't know the process to know which is the right one, so sometimes a little trial-and-error has been required.

If anyone has a better way, chime in!

[ChristopherRI]

Redflea - Thanks a lot. That has definately worked for me. I appreciate it.

Chris

[Kamau]

Does this method work for xPlayer as well? I tried it, but I keep getting the error message to check my connection settings when I tried to play it.

[txmx]

Wirelessly posted

I use berry tunes and I think its awesome!!! To get new streams I use this site http://www.streamfinder.com I subscribed to this site,and then I search for stations,and then I click on the link for the RSS and I copy it to my Viigo,then I open all the new articles,and the from the menu I choose to read the full article and that's it!!! The only thing is that I can't find the stations that I want,I'm from texas and hispanic,so it would be very nice to find a couple of sites of tejano radio stations,does anybody can provide me a couple of URL's for tejano stations,actually I was thinking that right here on the forums we can ask and post URL's for everyone who is interested and copy'em and paste'em in our blackberry players thank you

[teon39]

If I had an unlimited data package and was cut off after a lot of use I would change carriers but I would never deal with at&t after being with T-MO

[txmx]

Wirelessly posted

I think that we should ask to the developers of berry tunes to include with the berry tunes software a search engine for new radio streams I hope they can do that,I don't have a computer at the time,so its really a pain to find new URL's

[txmx]

Wirelessly posted

I think that we should ask to the developers of berry tunes to include with the berry tunes software a search engine for new radio streams I hope they can do that,I don't have a computer at the time,so its really a pain to find new URL's

[zx475ti]

there is a app for windows mobile to get sirius streaming but not for bb. i cannot believe there is no way to get sirius on a blackberry looks like i may end up with a tilt so i can get sirius even though the bb is a much nicer tool than the tilt.

[Redflea]

I've been playing w/the Podcast feature a bit more in BerryTunes...has a nice feature to allow you to resume where you left off when you return to a Podcast.

[peeq]

Thanks for the info. Have been looking for streaming radio for a while now.

Cheers

[Redflea]

Purchased Berry Tunes today from handango....used a 20% off coupon (2NDCHANCE) that I found to get the price to only $19.

Berrytunes Support has been very responsive...I've sent a few emails back and forth w/Virtual Views and get very quick responses...even sent an email last night (Friday evening) and had a reply shortly thereafter.

Just very impressed w/the functionality of this app and how the company stands behind it!

[tlhead]

i tried using the "right click on shoutcast.com station and i dont see the save as link...is that the same as page info? im so lost :( thanks for anyones help.

[tlhead]

wait nevermind i did it!

[powercx]

I used xPlayer and it works great. But granted I'm on 3G and WiFi with Blackberry Bold. I tried xPlayer with my curve and played the same stations on my bold but with skips. I never streamed music with the Curve.