DroidLive

by Android Tapp Jul 29, 2009 5:15 AM – 11 Comments

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Use DroidLive to stream live radio on your phone powered by SHOUTcast. Search, organize, tag, and save your favorite radio stations for easy access any time you want to rock out. Watch our video tour to see all the cool ways to find your radio stations.

Price: Free, $1.99

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Features:

DroidLive Android App is one of the coolest mobile radio players for Android yet! Stream online radio stations from SHOUTcast. Easily browse through Genres, Top Hits or Search for stations. The app even allows you to save Favorites radio stations, view radio station History, and Tag songs. In the settings menu, you can toggle bitrate of audio which increases quality of music yet taxes download streams on slower mobile connections.

: DroidLive Main Screen

: DroidLive Streaming Radio Station

: DroidLive Top Hits

: DroidLive Genre

: DroidLive Search

: DroidLive Settings Menu

Usefulness:

Lots of people prefer a seemingly infinite and undetermined mix of music, discussion from talk radio or news from their favorite Internet radio stations. SHOUTcast offer plenty radio stations to suit your tastes.

Ease of Use:

Browse for station(s)… tapp Play & Listen… Simple! Kudos for simplifying the user experience on a mobile app!

Frequently Used:

This app can qualify as a daily use app. Yet frequency of use is user dependant.

Interface:

The user interface is Awesome! One of the best layouts for Android. The neon futuristic UI is easy to navigate and very organized. Highly optimal for mobile use.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (4.3 out of 5)

Should you Download DroidLive? Yes! One of the Best Android Radio Players!

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11 Comments

By Hellberg on July 29, 2009 at 7:02 am:

DroidLive is a promising app, but yet I found myself going back to StreamFurious. StreamFurious is a lot uglier, but way faster (less buffer time etc) and it handles .pls-files from the browser without problems. This didn’t work very good in DroidLive, if I tried to open a pls file from a browser link with DroidLive, I got an error message in DroidLive.

Even though I think the user interface in DroidLive is great, it still has some drawbacks. Why isn’t it using the standard android buttons on the phone? You can’t go back by pressing the back button or access settings etc by pressing the menu button as with most other android apps. Not very good usability-wise imo. Still, the app has the nicest looking UI of all streaming radio apps and it’s very easy to use.

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By DroidLive on August 25, 2009 at 2:35 pm:

Just wanted to let you know we love this review and took all suggestions and we uploaded a new version of DroidLive on the android market. Google Android just added us as featured app! check it out http://www.android.com/market/#app=droidlive

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By Andrew on December 8, 2009 at 11:16 pm:

This program does not offer local broadcast stations from cities but rather certain Internet broadcast radio. Even with that, I couldn’t find a lot of Internet stations that I wanted. ooTunes on the iPhone blows this program away.

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By Kevin on January 12, 2010 at 10:41 am:

Any way to have a widget added? Seems to be the only thing missing

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By sign0ff on February 17, 2010 at 10:37 am:

Great app, used it in every way possible, works like a charm

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By MrShine on March 19, 2010 at 10:52 am:

I use this for listening to one of my favourite small radio stations and it works flawlessly with no buffering on either 3G or WiFi, sound comes through exceptionally well ( 128kbps ) and well worth the download for me.

I prefer it to others i found who only listed those that were submitted to them, this one has a few small stations which broadcast through shoutcast.

Top stuff

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By Syeco on April 15, 2010 at 4:33 am:

Great app, easy to use. Search function is fast, navigation is fast through the menus ect.

One pretty big problem for me though. There is no configuring the gui at all. The color scheme looks nice in the dark, but using in bright areas there isn’t enough contrast to be able to see anything. My goal is to use my droid in my car dock with my car stereo. When driving on a sunny day, I can’t read the interface other than the volume.

Please make some skins or color choices!!! (like Winamp)

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By Rewbob on April 19, 2010 at 3:33 pm:

I love this app. It’d be great if I could configure a default station to always start playing as soon as the app is started. Or maybe the last station that was playing? With that, I could use this as my alarm clock.

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By Mike on July 22, 2010 at 12:43 am:

Hey if any of you folks listen to WWOZ 90.7 FM New Orleans via DroidLive, let us know whether the station is easy to find in the app & works well/sounds good over at wwoz.org. We’re in the process of developing a standalone Android app for our station, but we’d love to know how people like listening to the station via DroidLive so we can recommend the app to our listeners in the meantime.

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