Free iPhone app to listen to Rhubarb
We found a blog post about listening to Radio Le Mans on the iPhone. It alerted us to a new FREE radio iPhone app — and it’s one that will play Rhubarb too. Here’s the instuctions, cribbed from there and altered so you listen to brum-based community radio, rather than car driving.
Step 1: Head over to iTunes and grab the free app Fstream (will open iTunes). Or search for Fstream in the App store.
Step 2: Open Fstream and tap the star (favorites) at the bottom.
Step 3: Tap Edit at the top/left.
Step 4: Tap Add new webradio
Step 5: Enter this url: (don’t worry about format and bitrate)
http://www.rhubarbradio.com:8000/listen.pls
Step 6: Tap Save. Tap Done.
Step 7: Tap Play at the bottom (next to the Star)
Step 8: Tap your saved url in the list. It will buffer in and play.
You can also pop in URLs to live streams when they’re on.
More good Internet radio content info from James Cridland here: http://james.cridland.net/blog/why-iphone-v3-0-is-good-for-radio/
There’s another app that costs a quid – but the beauty of that one is that it has a built-in browser (you can email or tweet while you listen) http://thebigpaws.co.uk/2009/03/listen-to-rhubarb-radio-on-your-iphone/
As for the Fstream app, peopel might be interested to know that it does BBC radio too – as far as i know the only way on the iPhone.
Instead of the rhubarb UL try:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r5l.asx for Radio 5
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4.asx for Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r6.asx for 6 Music
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx for Radio 2
but of course you’ll want to keep it Rhubarb all the way.