Today, the native iPhone application for FlyCast’s mobile broadcast network was released in Apple iTunes’ App Store. The extensive content line-up, with over 1000 digital channels, includes virtually every genre of music, terrestrial radio, weather, talk, and traffic. The new iPhone player also includes a host of listener experience enhancements and time-shifting features never before delivered in a broadcast environment.
“We wanted our native app to raise the bar for what is possible with mobile entertainment, just like we did with our original FlyTunes web application,” said Sam Abadir, FlyCast CEO, in the press release. “Our native iPhone app offers all the basic features that people expect — artist info, song titles and album art, one click purchasing from iTunes, favorite stations list creation, and personalized radio stations, but it’s our time shifting capabilities that will dramatically change the way people experience and interact with mobile media.”
“Comparing FlyCast’s content, features, quality of service and costs to those of satellite radio, we believe we’re providing our listeners with a much better entertainment experience and value, on devices they already own and carry with them wherever they go.”
FlyCast’s new TimeSlip features include “StreamSlip”, which allows users to continue to listen to a station even during extended periods without a connection; “Top of the Hour”, which allows latecomers to listen from the beginning of talk radio shows; “SongSkip ” allows forward skip on certain webcast stations and pause on all stations. Other new features include an embedded web browser, allowing users to surf the web while listening to their favorite station, background play and battery saver modes, a connection speed identifier, and the ability to play any of over 25,000 worldwide Internet radio stations in the Shoutcast directory.
Unlike other iPhone radio apps that offer music from just one channel or broadcaster, the FlyCast Network offers listeners freedom of choice. FlyCast’s media includes the majority of the top webcasters in addition to top terrestrial radio stations from all over the country. Included in the over 1000 channels are stations from partners AccuRadio, Entercom, DI, SKY, 977 Music, Radio Paradise, SmoothJazz.com, 1Club, TheRadio.com, radioIO and 181.FM.
The FlyCast iPhone player is completely free — it works with Apple iPhones (3G and original) and the iPod touch. Users can download it directly to their devices from the Apple App store or through their Apple iTunes software.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
As of 1:37pm EST the application was not available via the App Store.
The App Store on the iPhone could not find it under search, but if you go to the Music category, it’s like the 3 App listed.
Thanks MaLvado. Behind a firewall right now, so will check it out this evening.
-tc
Found it.
Thanks!
-tc
I wonder how much battery that this will take?
Can a Zune or Dell Ditty do that with their much ballyhooed FM receiver? Take that Dell and M$!
OMG, this is SO COOL… I just downloaded and am playing Trace through the thing… easy to do! I usually have my iPhone plugged into my stereo using Griffin’s AutoPilot… this will make a VERY nice addition!
I’m playing TRANCE… not Trace… stupid fingers
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I’m curious about how its quality compares to satellite radio (XM/Serius). I think those who insisted the iPod was ‘missing a radio tuner” are looking rather silly.
FlyTunes is great. I loaded the very first version on my original iPhone and it was fine for listing to talk, but 2G made listening to music an ugly experience. With good 3G reception and a new iPhone, it should be unbeatable.
Adios Sirrus and XM–more blood for the bloodbath.
here’s the link to FlyCast at the App Store…
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=6011&mt=8
This sounds great, and yes, it didn’t show up under Search, but it’s in the Music Category.
Having said that, there are some already good Radio Apps, like Pandora, AOL Radio and Stitcher. With FlyCast, what else is there, a real Sirius/XM App?
Watch out, I was listening to TWiT and went looking at the other stuff and it started stuttering and then just locked the phone up. I wound up powering it off and back on…
And of course, like AOL Radio and Pandora, it’s apparently not available outside the U.S. Bloody hell…
You should update the article so the rest of the world doesn’t get excited.
Great app! Nice set of choices and it works very well.
There’s no pan flute polka or Acadian accordion but that’s o.k.
What? No Charles Manson death rap? C’mon!
Aaah, I’m having a rough day…I didn’t see it in the Canadian App Store originally, but the link Jim – TIV posted worked!
Works great, too! Thanks FlyCast and MDN!
This is a great app … web browser to boot … now can listen to radio and browse the web at the same time (unlike Pandora or Last FM apps). woohoo
Sounds good, but does it scrobble?
… til it offers MLB etc. If they, or XM, or MLB came up with an MLB offering (ala GameDay Audio) , I would jump on it toot sweet.
Very impressive.
Walkin’, talkin’ Tesla!
Yet another reason to get one of these things. I just can’t get off the fence between an iPhone (my old, plain phone from Sprint is still kicking, unfortunately, although I’m not locked into my contract anymore) and a Touch, I’m a fiend for radio, though, and love Pandora on my iMac. This sounds as good if not better.
Damn.
not working worth a shit for me here… first it tells me I have no connection, which is ludicrous as I have a very, very fast internet connection, and then if I stop the ‘connection test’ it just goes into a perpetual ‘loading’ mode.
thank God I didn’t pay for this….
This app is the best. I was a flytunes web app user, tried AOL radio for awhile, but didn’t stick with it. I think I’ll be using FlyCast all the time. Has anyone tried using the search feature yet?