Streaming Music for your iPhone

  • Developer: Sam Abadir
  • Version: 1.2
  • Cost:Free
  • For: iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch
  • Download URL
Flycast Mobile is a free streaming music application for the iPhone.  Flycast allows you to search for literally thousands of online radio stations (podcasts) - from mainstream stations such as CNN to music of the 90s to stations in your favorite language. Flycast starts off with a fairly simple (but useful) search engine that allows you to search for music stations by keyword, artist, and shoutcast (a directory of Internet radio stations) names.  Pick the station you’re interested in, hit play, and you’re good to go.

With respect to streaming music itself, Flycast offers two modes.  The standard mode, “quick play” aims to conserve battery life and reduce skipping by using an extended buffering system.  However, you can turn off Flycast and launch the radio via Safari.  The benefit of streaming the station from Safari is that you can then stream the music in the background and launch other apps. Beautiful.

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The only thing with Flycast (and any other streaming software) is that you’d want to be within wifi or 3G range - otherwise EDGE simply cannot keep up with the stream.  Otherwise as long as you have a good charge on the battery you should have hours of entertainment.

App Review Score: 4.0 out of 5.

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