Jay Meydad's Life Mashup

I have been getting many questions & comments about my two posts on how to listen to Israeli radio stations on the iPhone and iPod Touch using the FStream app (here). That’s the “price” I had to pay for being ranked first on google for queries like “israeli radio on iphone”. Hopefully this post will provide answers to many of the questions.

Recently a new free application was released to the App Store called “Visual Radio” (download link). It was developed in Israel by Unicell and it offers the capability to listen to over 10 stations using a clean and elegant user interface.

Unlike the FSTream solution which requires configuring the radio stations’ streams urls into the app and changing the urls whenever those change, Visual Radio comes pre-configured with many radio stations which leads to an easy “install and play” experience. A few stations are still missing and I hope the Unicell team there will add them soon. Other nice features include:

1. Radio Dial that lets you preview what song is being played in a station before actually switching to it – big time saver

2. Displaying artist and song names

3. Song’s lyrics (when available)

4. Programming for every station

Kudos for the Unicell team for a great app. One small tip to the developers – change the app name to say something like “Visual Israeli Radio” so people who search iTunes will be able to easily find it.

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TheSound LA features the best rock music made to date. As simple as that. And it is great to discover (and re-discover) every day albums, songs and artists that have made rock music what it is. That’s why it is my favorite radio station.

I enjoyed listening this morning on my way to work to “Album Sides Wednesday” (and twittered about it, twice) that I wanted to continue listening to uninterrupted, dusty, classics vinyl albums, but, was so disappointed to find out that you can not do it online because “According to rules agreed upon with the Recording Industry Association of America, we are banned from presenting uninterrupted album sides on an Internet stream.”. So now I have to switch back to iTunes and listen to compressed and narrow spectrum MP3 files, at least I am back in the car.

Regardless of that, wherever you are located, and as long as you love rock music, you should add TheSound LA to your radio and bookmark the site so you could listen to it online- 24 hours, 6 days a week.