Radioshift Touch Review: Radio for your Phone
-Clean Interface
-Comparable to free options
-Over-priced
One of the heaviest hitters in the world of Mac apps is Rogue Amoeba. They have created some of the most innovative audio related apps available: Audio Hijack Pro, Airfoil, and Radioshift. In hopes of extending their success, they’ve developed their first iPhone application: Radioshift Touch. Radioshift Touch is an application that allows you to listen to radio streams from both terrestrial and online stations.
Unfortunately, I feel as though this application falls flat and only really offers the same features as its free counterparts. Like the AOL Radio application, Radioshift allows you to find all your local radio stations and search for others using an intuitive list of music genres. But unlike the AOL app, Radioshift also allows you to search for your favorite station by name.
As for quality, Radioshift works very well on 3G, Edge, and WiFi. Obviously a stream’s quality varies based upon the bitrate at which it broadcasts, so it would be very helpful if Rouge Amoeba listed that in the station’s description.
I have no doubt that this is a very well-built radio application for your iPhone, I just find it hard to recommend that you go out and spend $9.95 for this app when you could get one of many other radio apps which have the nearly the same functionality for free.
Currently Radioshift Touch is available through the App Store for $9.99.
Try Fstream. And, it’s free.
http://www.sourcemac.com/?page=fstream
First paragraph… **Rogue** Amoeba…
Fixed, thanks.
Radioshift touch is unreal..I would seriously pay $50 or more for it.
Its worth every penny. It finds any show you are interested in by the search function and plays it immediately. If you are a fan of sports radio or talk radio..this is the most amazing app. The “local” feature is great too. It finds every single station in your area and you get it instantly in crystal cear sound (something thats hard to get with an AM radio. Every night I put my ipod touch under the pillow and turn on radioshift (I like streaming coast to coast AM or sports radio) and go to sleep with it on. Incredible app and worth every penny.
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