WFMU has announced what’s believed to be the first live audio stream for Apple’s iPhone (and iPod touch via Wi-Fi).
iPhone and iPod touch listeners can point their browsers to http://iphone.wfmu.org and listen to WFMU’s live mp3 streams at either 128k or 32k (for EDGE) and also choose from a selection of archived content and podcasts.
WFMU reports, “A month or so ago, Tversity, a New Jersey based software company, announced that they had figured out a way to stream to the iPhone. Tversity’s main product offering is a media server that allows you to stream all your audio and video content from your home computer to various web enabled devices (including many mobile devices and game consoles). I tend to think of TVersity as a variation on Sling Player or something similar to DotTunes but with many more features.”
“After contacting Tversity we learned that they also have some products aimed at enterprise level clients and they do a lot of work providing media delivery solutions to various wireless carriers. Over time we’ve been able to do some minor tweaking with their product and we’re very pleased with the results,” WFMU reports. “We’d like to thank Tversity for helping us deliver what we believe is the first live streaming offering for the iPhone.”
WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 FM in the New York City area, at 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
iPhone tested: it works (like a charm)! Let the avalanche commence!
Bitching and rockin. First!
I’m looking forward to the ‘avalanche’ of iPhone programmes after Apple’s SDK comes out in February.
Yes, but without an FM radio tuner, the iPhone and iPod will never be able to sell more than a few dozen units.
(And don’t even get me started on lack of subscription music!)
just tried it on Edge – works like a charm.
typed it in as I was reading this article. It works great.
WFMU is the BEST!!!!1!!!
both speeds work great on the iPod Touch
good times.
I love wfmu
just book marked on my iphone and can confirm it works great over edge!!!!!!!!
NICE! The people who embrace iphone and Apple will profit!!!!!
Great station!
I like it!
Being from Cincinnati… one can only hope that the BEST Alternative radio station in the world, WOXY will plug this in… they’re all Mac Heads over there, I might have to pop an email over to Brian and suggest this!
If you build it, they will come!!!
So he build it,
& boy! did they come!!!
there’s some frantic slightly angry operatic music playing (with a lot of accordian)…but works like a charm on edge. this is really cool and I’m even starting to like the music. can’t wait for this revolution to take hold.
After he built it, the fud masters came,
They saw it & turned Lime Green in an instant,
“He has built it! they won’t come!!:- The most expensive phone in the world they won’t buy!!:- The plans over $10,000.00!!:- No SDK!!:- It is Sandboxed!!!!!”
They wailed and gnashed their teeth in the hope that we would take heed and avoid the iphone.
But he HAD built it, & we did go, & the Developers are now coming!!!! Are they still Lime Green with envy?
this is sweet!!! can’t wait until everyone else follows the bandwagon
That is seriously cool. Just tried it out. Lets hope all those guys in the iTunes Internet Radio list will do this, because I use that daily.
That’s great, but I’d like to see
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I think this violates my contract with AT&T;. Would they dump me if I used it too much? Would that be a bad thing?
Works great on my touch. Interesting…it seems to work like utube.
My son built a program for me on June 30 that streams my favorite radio station to my iPhone. It only streams an hour’s worth of the show at a time and then I have to do a refresh. My iPhone (and AT&T;) think I’m playing an mp3. I hope the process will become mainstream!
Woody, I’m with you.
iTunes Ambient is where I live; go to sleep to Drone Zone on SOMA FM out of Frisco every night. Here’s hoping Chillout Lounge, Radioioambient (come on, Forrest!), Groove Salad, hell, ALL of ’em, get on the bandwagon with this!
Life is good getting better all the time.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
kirkgray, look in the Apple online store before you post such flamebait: You can get a radio/headphone combo for almost every iPod released so far there. It even shows channel info on the iPod’s display.
The iPod *has* radio, just not included in the default configuration.
kirkgray Apple has sold Millions of iPods and well over a million iPhones.
I don’t think people are holding out because it doesn’t have a radio.