iheartradio

by Antonio Wells Feb 25, 2010 6:00 AM – 17 Comments

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iheartradio delivers over 400 of America’s favorite radio stations right to your Android phone. Bookmark your favorite stations, view lyrics and enjoy on-demand content including exclusive performances, songs and intimate vignettes from today’s hottest music stars. We also feature some of the best talk stations in the USA.

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Listen to local streaming radio stations from around the country
Search, Favorite, Tag, and get Lyrics for music from radio stations

Cons

Long connection and buffer wait before music starts streaming (3+ minutes) :shocked:

Features:

iheartradio Android App is Clear Channel’s streaming radio station app for Android phones. Search, Favorite, Tag, Lyrics (if available), and Listen to local radio stations from around the country. Use the Randomizer feature to randomly deliver a radio station for listening.

Gripe Alert: You can multi-task with iheartradio, however there is no icon in the notification window so you can easily return like other stream music Android apps. A work-around is to Longpress the Home button then select iheartradio. I also wonder why GPS toggles so frequently with the app as well.

: iheartradio Playing Station

: iheartradio Stations

: iheartradio Favorites

: iheartradio Tagged

: iheartradio Randomizer

Usefulness:

iheartradio is great for listening to your favorite local radio stations when not near a radio like in the office, commuting or traveling.

Ease of Use:

There is painfully long connection and buffer time before any music starts with this app (3+ minutes in our evaluation). Many griped in the Android Market that it doesn’t work. Maybe more patience is needed… still it should not take that long to buffer. It was tested on 3G and Wi-Fi Internet connections. However when it is started, there is good audio quality and uninterrupted streams.

Interface:

The user interface is sleek… very iPhone-like.. nice polish!

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (3.9 out of 5)

Should you Download iheartradio? Yes! Great for Radio listeners… Especially if you can Bare the Buffer wait!

Developer: Clear Channel Radio Digital

Tags: Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, Clear Channel, iheartradio, Personal Radio, streaming audio, Streaming Music App

Categorised in: Multimedia, Music

17 Comments

By DistortedLoop on February 25, 2010 at 7:36 am:

iHeart Radio on the iPhone is fantastic; on my Nexus One it was fine until the recent update. Now it’s pretty useless unless you’re on WiFi. Half the time I start it, it won’t even get past the logo screen, kill it and try again, maybe it will start, maybe not. More patience might be in order, but ANY app that takes 3+ minutes to load on a 1 Ghz processor with a 3G connection is just plain BROKEN.

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By ben on February 25, 2010 at 10:20 am:

Just an FYI on the notification icon. There is actually an icon, but you have to hit the back button repeatedly after playback has started to have it show up. I emailed this info to the developer within days of initial release, along with other bugs. No response from them, and none of the issues have been addressed in subsequent updates. Marginally average app coupled with a terrible dev = epic fail.

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By ben on February 25, 2010 at 10:23 am:

…. and one more thing. I noticed the comment about great for commuting. I’m not sure if it’s just been me, but this app is even more unusable when moving, ie in a car. I’ve tried it and playback is much worse than when you’re stationary. Even if the app starts playback, it stops and starts playback constantly. I’ve heard it may have something to do with polling different towers, but this hasn’t been a problem using Pandora or AOnlineRadio.

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By Tiffany on February 26, 2010 at 9:23 am:

I downloaded this app to my android and it worked the 1st time I did it but it kept starting over on the radio station I was listening to. In fact,it was playing things that I had already heard the Friday before. The next day I tried the app again and it has never streamed music again. It buffers forever and never plays the radio station. I agree it’s a failure and it shouldn’t take so long to start up.

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By David on March 4, 2010 at 7:34 am:

i downloaded the app for my android and like some it worked ok the first time and now it sounds like an old record on a slow speed.. i doesn’t take long to buffer for me but i don’t like listening to music in slow motion

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By Les on April 9, 2010 at 6:46 pm:

Thanx guys this is free & a lot better the ATT Radio.

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By Brian on September 10, 2010 at 12:18 pm:

I put this app on my motorola CLIQ… and it works… sort of. The sound quality is bad listening to talk radio, and the connect / buffering took almost 16 min today. Pandora radio steams much better… wish it would offer a chance to stream my favorite am station.

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By HellofromJoel on September 28, 2010 at 6:16 am:

Same as above with the Android ???? Doesn’t work anymore.

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By Paul on January 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm:

This app has been a total disappointment. I used to have a Blackberry curve and the version for that phone worked reasonably well but now I have a Droid 2 (both on Verizon) and it’s constantly stopping and starting for no apparent reason. And that’s when I’m stationary, forget about using it in the car. Additionally, the app itself tends to freeze up requiring me to reboot my phone just to get it running.

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- By Jason Norment on January 12, 2011 at 5:07 pm:
  
  Are you running a stock non-rooted version of the OS?
  
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  - By Paul on January 12, 2011 at 5:18 pm:
    
    I don’t know what you mean by “stock non-rooted” but I’m using the latest version offered by Verizon. 2.3.20.A955.Verizon.en.US.
    
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    - By Jason Norment on January 12, 2011 at 5:42 pm:
      
      If you don’t know what I mean, then probably not.
      
      I’ve heard of the issue before on specific devices. I tried finding a fix for it but was unable to find it. I’m going to email the developer and try to get an answer for you.
      
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      - By Paul on January 12, 2011 at 6:19 pm:
        
        Thanks Jason! I hope they fix this as iHeartRadio has been my favorite app.
By Brian on February 17, 2011 at 1:42 pm:

This app on verizon is almost worthless – sitting on my desk with 4 bars and the play is so choppy as to be unusable – when it does manage to play, it will lose the connection and not reconnect – until you close the app, re-open the app, and start over from the top – oh, and sometimes the only fix is to power off the phone.

I wish the creators of this crap would hire the pandora people – that software actually works.

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By Charity on April 4, 2011 at 8:57 am:

I downloaded this app today for the HTC Hero and it is absolutely the pits. It did not take long to buffer, but it plays the station for 5 seconds and then cuts out for 5 seconds. And this is not a random every now and then event… every 6 seconds it cuts out for 5 seconds. It makes listening to music annoying and it is not better for talk either. I downloaded it to listen to my favorite morning show in a different state, but I will stick with Pandora.

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By Mike Osborne on April 4, 2011 at 6:49 pm:

Pandora is really cool i stick with that to.

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By Mike Osborne on April 4, 2011 at 6:53 pm:

Hey, what are some HIGH QUALITY music apps. I have MP3 music download and it has high ratings but the quality sucks….. HELP!

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