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FlyCast Streams Over 1000 Channels of Audio to iPhone

By James Alan Miller
September 12, 2008

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FlyCast (formally FlyTunes), a service that delivers Internet radio content to cell phones and media players, launched a Web app bringing over 300 channels over audio content to the iPhone and iPod touch a few months ago. We've just received word from the company that the service has gone native.

You can download the application, renamed FlyCast Mobile, from the iTunes App Store and install it on your iPhone 3G, iPod touch 2G and firmware 2.0-enabled original iPhone and iPod touch models.

The Internet-broadcast network now boasts over 1000 digital channels, covering 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, according to FlyCast.

For instance, 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; and SongSkip allows forward skip on certain webcast stations and pause on all stations.

Other new features include an embedded web browser, 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.

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 free.



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