uSirius Starplayr Preview: From Satellites to your iPhone

If you’re an XM or Sirius satellite radio subscriber, you have probably been looking high and low for an app that would allow you to listen to your favorite stations on your iPhone. The app is uSirius Starplayr and it comes from the guys at NiceMac.

At the first launch of Starplayr, you are prompted to fill in your XM or Sirius login information and asked whether or not you would like to use a higher quality bitrate (64kbps) when using wifi, the default bitrate is 32kbps.

After logging in, you are presented with the elegantly simplistic GUI, which put simply is a list with logos for each available station. You are also given the ability to sort the stations by genre which proves to be very helpful as the station titles are not normally too helpful.

Tip: From the station listing you can press and hold on a station and it will be added to your list of presets.

Once you select a station, StarPlayr buffers for a couple seconds and your audio stream begins. Starplayr than displays the track and artist name as well the album artwork. It also offers the ability to look at the lyrics of the song, mute the stream and it even gives you links to download the song from iTunes or Amazon.

After using this preview for weeks, I have only experienced one issue and it was merely an incorrect song title. The user interface works flawlessly and I am consistently able to connect to the audio streams, both through cellular and WiFi.

NiceMac states on their website that StarPlayr has been submitted to the App Store and could be available any day now. I highly recommend you keep your eyes open for it.

Disclosure: One of our contributors, Joe Turner, is a part of the StarPlayr development team but this review has been done independently of him.

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