Tonight I tried out two apps for my iPod Touch to stream WCSB.

I only used wi-fi, not having an iPhone, so any reports from the field would be appreciated.

Based on cost and assorted user ratings, I tried out:

CastCatcher: two bucks
RadioBOX: a buck

CastCatcher had a pretty obvious user interface; I had no trouble figuring out how to add WCSB's stream (www.wcsb.org:8001/listen.pls). One of the pluses to CastCatcher is you can go into System Preferences and increase the buffer size, which reviewers say helps with dropouts. I listened for about twenty minutes with no problems. Mind you, I was sitting next to my wifi router the whole time.

RadioBOX, however, really made me work hard to figure out how to add WCSB's stream. Once I did it wouldn't let me play it, until I figured out I had to OK it twice. But with all that done, it then streamed WCSB just fine. I listened for about five minutes with no dropouts.

There are a handful of other apps out there; most of them cost more. The free Shoutcast AOL app won't let you add any other streams (fascists. I hate lock in).

~swain

Awesome. I've been looking for something like these off and on for a while now.

CLE College Radio iPhone App

Great to know!

One of the pluses to CastCatcher is you can go into System Preferences and increase the buffer size, which reviewers say helps with dropouts. I listened for about twenty minutes with no problems. Mind you, I was sitting next to my wifi router the whole time.





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CastCatcher had a pretty obvious user interface; I had no trouble figuring out how to add WCSB's stream (www.wcsb.org:8001/listen.pls). One of the pluses to CastCatcher is you can go into System Preferences and increase the buffer size, which reviewers say helps with dropouts. I listened for about twenty minutes with no problems. Mind you, I was sitting next to my wifi router the whole time.

RadioBOX, however, really made me work hard to figure out how to add WCSB's stream. Once I did it wouldn't let me play it, until I figured out I had to OK it twice. But with all that done, it then streamed WCSB just fine. I listened for about five minutes with no dropouts.

happy to see that..... just give me a lot of thinking....!

thx....