Annoying, power hungry
Heats up the phone and drains battery at a higher rate than similar apps.
Refuses to stop playing annoying sound effects dispite sound effect setting being turned off.
Refuses to stop playing annoying sound effects dispite sound effect setting being turned off.
This player gets it right.
An audiophile quality HLS FLAC lossless and AAC player. Versatile. Also a useful tool for pros. No sign-in or account needed, no monthly fees, no busy screens with promotional junk. I like its clean look. This player can retrieve cover art using the station’s artist and title info, even if the station isn’t sending cover art data. Looks cool on the dashboard. I can drive around town and thanks to HLS, can listen to lossless or AAC encoded streams without dropouts using this player on my iPhone with CarPlay. Tip: For best quality, connect with a cable to avoid additional Bluetooth lossy compression. I also like that you can find a stream’s bitrate and other tech info on the player’s “Geek Info” page. Now, here’s a more technical part of my review from my perspective as a broadcast engineer. The StreamS HiFi Radio player is from the same company that makes the excellent standards-based streaming encoders that my stations use, so they definitely get the player right. It supports xHE-AAC, which delivers surprising quality at low bitrates. When using cellular, the player conserves data usage by selecting the lowest available bitrate, and when on WiFi picks the highest rate for best quality. A feature, not a bug. (Most HLS streams have different bitrate streams available for the same program.) Of course, if you select a lossless stream, it plays lossless, even if using cellular. And if you want to always play a particular high bitrate stream, you can custom-enter the URL of the desired bitrate HLS variant, and save it to Favorites, as I have done for our dozens of variants. Sure, you will have to know this info, but some broadcasters publish it on their websites, or you could ask them. In addition to providing high quality entertainment that is beyond broadcast quality, it’s a reference-quality player. It’s an accurate and useful tool for me, since it can show technical details of the streams. I purchased it personally (for me, it’s worth many times its price), and I was not compensated for this review.
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Engineering
If you know anything about streaming you
know this is the only app needed for audio
streaming.
know this is the only app needed for audio
streaming.
This app is awesome.
I’ve own this app for over 10 years. It’s one of the best. It’s my goto music app for live radio. Great audio quality and very reliable. It works really well with CarPlay and Siri, the best so far.
Streams HiFi improvements
I like the updated version of this app. Lower loading times easier to access the map and it seems to support all the native codecs in the Apple OS. The main screen has a faster load time and larger icons. Good value for the money. Five stars.
I love FLAC!
This version just got better. I love listening to my favorite stream: Soma.fm GrooveSalad in lossless audio codec. This is amazing CD quality. These are so many stations but I mostly stick to my usual.
Зря потрачены деньги
Программа выдаёт две станции и те в МР3 качестве не выше 192 кБит. Выброшенные деньги
Amazing Audio Quality
Someone recently turned me onto this app and I am immediately found the radio station audio coming out of my iPhone to be superb. It was almost like it had turned into a supercharged stereo. The station list of radio stations from around the globe is impressive. The nice thing, they all work! My two favorites are Big 8 Radio and LG73.
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Streams app
This app quit working after a couple of days. Please refund my purchase price.
Pathetic
Not hi res audio - stations seem to be 64kpbs
Does not work on T-Mobile
Audio does not load on T-Mobile cellular connections. Loads fine on WiFi. I have to start the audio on home WiFi when leaving the house, and switch to cellular. It will not load on its own over cellular.
Awesome Support!!
Huge thanks to Greg O. And his brilliant team! Had a strange issue on my stream and they quickly figured out the issue. I provided the updated info and they got it fixed in minutes! All of this in a Sunday evening! So great!
Worthless fraud
I could understand preferring to use other codecs other than MP3, but to not decode an MP3, when it is frequently used by streaming sources, makes this program expensive garbage. It should be stated VERY clearly that the program is likely useless to many users because of the lack of MP3 support.
Great Apple TV update
This latest update allows me to listen to my favorite station in HQ audio, even those that require a login, like MartiniInTheMorning.com
Thanks
Thanks
Great App & Support
Pleasantly surprised how fast the support was and how friendly the rep was. The app so far does what I need it to do, though the real test will be tomorrow and I’ll update after my test with CarPlay. If all goes well, this app will be the best radio app I have gotten.
Problem streams hifi radio
Doesn't work on iphone 5
Please fix it thanks
Please fix it thanks
Not working!
Won't open with IOS 9.3.5, please fix!
It's a CarPlay streaming app with a few caveats
This app works reasonably well with CarPlay support, which was what I was hoping for. Overall, I'm not sure it was worth the $5 price tag but willing to stick with it for now.
There are a couple things that are bringing my rating of the app down:
1) No ability to select stream bitrate. This is mitigated by the ability to add your own stream addresses (bizarrely, this is done via the share panel).
2) Short buffer time with no (obvious) way to adjust.
I live in an area with generally excellent and fast cell service but there are a couple spots on my commute where I lose LTE signal for a few seconds. Since I use this exclusively for streaming in the car (hence the requirement for CarPlay support because I don't want to fiddle with my phone while driving) having a buffer of more than a couple seconds is very desirable.
There are a couple things that are bringing my rating of the app down:
1) No ability to select stream bitrate. This is mitigated by the ability to add your own stream addresses (bizarrely, this is done via the share panel).
2) Short buffer time with no (obvious) way to adjust.
I live in an area with generally excellent and fast cell service but there are a couple spots on my commute where I lose LTE signal for a few seconds. Since I use this exclusively for streaming in the car (hence the requirement for CarPlay support because I don't want to fiddle with my phone while driving) having a buffer of more than a couple seconds is very desirable.
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Отличное приложение!
Долго искал приложение, которое будет отображать названия треков, передающихся в потоке и корректно работать с потоками кодированными в AAC+. Все что мне нужно приложение выполняет на отл! Можно добавить свой стрим, увидеть подробную инфу о потоке, вычислить расход трафика, добавить трек в избранное и многое многое другое. Своих денег стоит.
Собака на иконке приложения остается загадкой для меня :)
Собака на иконке приложения остается загадкой для меня :)
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Needs Chromecast audio support
Please add support for Chromecast Audio to stream to my AV receiver as you are far better than TuneIn Radio except in this area.
