IHeartRadio

[KaNuckles]

Slacker is best when the app works. They give you as many skips on the free version as Pandora does for the paid version. Unlimited skips if you pay. It's way better at picking relevant music, too. Problem is the app is :poop: It works great from the net but the app is slow and freezes. That's on a windows phone. It worked better on my iphone

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I ran IHeartRadio several hours today from home, fixed location, on sprint data rather than wifi, and it worked fine. No dropouts even with just 1 or 2 bars signal in my basement.

 

Sprint is possibly in process of upgrading in Chattanooga. At least signal strengths have lately been different around town than previously (some places weaker, some stronger). And they appear to be rolling out some 4G finally, unless my phone is lying to me when it claims to be connected 4G. So maybe I need to wait til it "settles down" before drawing conclusions.

Edited May 8, 2013 by Lester Weevils

[Guest sL1k]

I use spotify and Pandora on sprint in chatt with no problems.

[NoBanStan]

I'm a slacker radio fan on mobile. I like the fact that I can basically drill a station down to playing a single band. I didn't like Pandora because I would type something like "Nine Inch Nails" and it would play lady gaga and 100 other artists and not one single nin song....

 

when i'm working at my desk though I tend to stick with grooveshark. It's nice to be able to just pick an entire album and listen to it. Or custom build a playlist of songs I want to hear.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

The proliferation of such music services is interesting.

 

Though I don't follow the sub-specialty, in audio-oriented digital signal processing, automated music (audio file) identification and classification has been a popular academic research area, generating lots of papers from numerous perfessors and grad students worldwide. I'd guess that such research would tie-in with automated music streaming services, or on the other hand maybe it is just humans who maybe had previously been radio program managers, manually typing into giant databases of what thousands of songs "fit in the same ballpark" with other thousands of songs?

Edited May 8, 2013 by Lester Weevils

[jcj]

I ran IHeartRadio several hours today from home, fixed location, on sprint data rather than wifi, and it worked fine. No dropouts even with just 1 or 2 bars signal in my basement.

Sprint is possibly in process of upgrading in Chattanooga. At least signal strengths have lately been different around town than previously (some places weaker, some stronger). And they appear to be rolling out some 4G finally, unless my phone is lying to me when it claims to be connected 4G. So maybe I need to wait til it "settles down" before drawing conclusions.

They are. All of the "Nashville" market (which includes all the way East to Knoxville) is in process now.

They just turned on 4G on my local tower (yes...we just have one in this tiny town).

Speeds and data connection consistency are phenomenal. It hovers around 15mbps where the previous 3g data was more like 0.5mbps most of the time.

Loving the new LTE network.

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