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How to easily listen to Israeli Radio Stations on iPhone & iPod Touch (part 3)

JayMeydad — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:35:46 +0000

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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10 Years of memories you can not hug

JayMeydad — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:35:35 +0000

Today we are marking 10 years since Michal Niv died. She was a legendary Israeli disc jocky who introduced me (and many of my generation) to indie rock & punk in the 80′s and had a tremendous influence on my musical taste.Here are two songs you could often hear on her weekly show, “HAFSAKAT ESER”.

The first, Bring of the Dancing Horses by Echo and the Bunnymen, was also the opening tune of her show.

and Just Like Honey by The Jesus and the Mary Chain.

Further reading (in Hebrew) and many songs representing her musical taste by David Perez & Sharon Moldavi

and a playlist on YouTube

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TheSound LA – Los Angeles’ Best Rock Music Radio Station

JayMeydad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:18 +0000

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.