Do you still think the iPhone should have come with an FM transmitter? Wanna listen to stations from around the U.S. live from your iPhone? Clear Channel has come to the App Store and is giving you the iheart radio iPhone app that lets you explore new stations from across the country and listen to them live.
iheart radio brings your favorite radio stations to the iPhone or iPod Touch for free. Similar to other radio apps like allRadio and Pandora you can listen anywhere over WiFi, EDGE or 3G, but with iheart radio, you get to listen to actual radio stations, not virtual ones. Some of the popular stations you have access to include: 102.7 KIIS FM, POWER 105.1, KFAN Sports Radio AM 1130, Channel 955 from Detroit, 103.5 KISS FM from Chicago, DC101 Rock, and KFI AM-640 Stimulating Talk. Bookmark your favorite station for quick access in the iPhone app.
To sweeten the deal, iheart radio app comes with some other nice features.
1) Lyrics: In the now playing section you can tap on lyrics (if available) and you can view the lyrics for the given song if you wanna sing along.
2) Album Art: Another great feature of iheart radio is that the album cover art is shown for the currently playing song if available.
Since these are live stations, you do get to listen to all the ads played on the stations as well. As more and more stations are added this might become a pretty good replacement for satellite radio.
Update: The latest version o iheart radio has been drastically improved. The new version lists categoriezed radio station by format and location. Cities are listed in alphabetical order. Once you find a station you like you can add it to your favorites, and get to it quickly by going to the Favorites tab on the bottom of iheart radio. Other new tabs include Tagged Songs and Shake it!
While listening to a song, (now playing) you can “tag” it which basically creates an entry for that song in the Tagged Songs tab. From here you can view tagged songs list and tap to buy the song from iTunes. Some popular radio stations also support lyrics for popular songs. Tap the lyrics button and iheart radio downloads the lyrics for the song using gracenote.
Finally if you feel adventurous, try the Shake it tab! Just shake the iPhone and iheart radio randomly picks a radio station for you to enjoy.
This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category.
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