ooTunes - of radio recorder for iPhone

People who want to listen fascinated imageless tones are pleased with weather reports and quiz shows, and learn the market price for the harvest of their corn fields: good old Radio Days, by Woody Allen [1] most recently in late-80's were glorified years. Okay, on corn fields, I can not draw, but on my new iPod touch, a few days ago a circular speaker got donated. Since he is on my wireless is [2], the use was as close to their streams. The advantages of web radio stations should be well known: you can hear the Mormon choir in Utah or the police radio or from Manhattan radio FreeFM in Ulm. And indeed, since the boy makes a good figure, switching between the channels is done quite fast [3], navigation, selection of favorite programs, etc. with various software works quite well.
But in the search for a suitable app I came across ooTunes, an app that exists as of today, version 3.0, and a lot can. But most of all: you can record shows and save even. But first things first ...

Right at the beginning, I'd like to point out the mega-good support by the developer Steven Woolley: He gave me tirelessly in recent days responded to each email within minutes and takes the suggestions of its user community, most immediately in the new development. It so happens that his station directory contains nearly 16,000 stations and German small-and special-stations - the app has built a form that allows each user login to propose a new station /. The search covers not only the usual country-and genre-heading, and cities are listed individually.

In order to keep the index can also bookmark to the usual favorites list individual tracks and stations tagged. Yes, it is even held a chronicle (including thumbnails of the CD cover), so you can easily find a station just played again.

If the sender provides the relevant information, is also quite often found the cover image and appears as a background. With the song-texts is already a matter of luck. But I would classify along with the "similarity search", the YouTube link to the mail, Twitter and Facebook also functions more as a "gimmick". More useful is because even the integration of many web services (Archive.org Live Concerts, Shoutcast, Icecast, MP3Tunes), although this is quickly becoming fumbling. But by the very complete list mentioned above bother me no further.

This requires a small but neat trick is worth mentioning that the radio apps have this problem so that they do not, unlike the built-in apps can run in the background. And since the iPhone does not support multitasking, dries up the sound when you start another application. ooTunes is a possibility, the current radio station to launch the Safari browser - and presto, you will hear more music. Simple but effective.

And now for the real innovation is that the majority of stations can be recorded, yes, it can even be a future program "inevitable" for the record. The individual pieces of land in an archive and can be played at any stage. Very useful if you for example just heard an interesting news magazine and write down the details can not do. Feasible in principle it is also for music, podcasts, since the duration is not limited - so what I would do it but would rather directly on the PC. However, there is currently no possibility to transfer the stored items on the PC - but Steven is already working

Small seasonal treat: the "genre" was the point of "Christmas" is inserted - with 40 channels. Well, yes ... Christmas is coming

ooTunes, currently 3.99 euros, website , App Store link

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[1] Radio Days of 1987, however, belongs to his weaker works. By the way: the current TIME magazine is dedicated to Woody Allen.
[2] Oh, did I mention that in a week when I switched from the lame 16-he-DSL to VDSL 50 ...?
[3] ... at least compared to my Tchibo-Fi radio