 RAIN 6/30: New York Times picks 7 stand-out mobile radio apps, including FlyCast and Sirius XM ·Jun 30, 11:57 AM The New York Times sorted through the increasingly long list of radio and music mobile applications to find What are your favorite mobile radio applications? Tell us, and the world, by clicking on the issue headline and submitting a comment! PANDORA NOW REQUIRES THAT ARTISTS’ MUSIC BE AVAILABLE ON AMAZONFor many Internet radio stations — and for Pandora, up until recently — all that was needed from an artist to be eligible for airplay was a CD or mp3 file. Now, however, Pandora is requiring that artists have their music for sale as a physical CD on Amazon before their music is considered for airplay. The CD must also have a valid UPC code. These new requirements come “in part because of a deal to display album cover art via Amazon’s servers,” reports HypeBot (here).
Selling CDs on Amazon will set artists back $30 a year — the cost of membership with Amazon’s Advantage Program — in addition to packaging and other costs. Understandably, there are some critics of this move. However, $30 probably shouldn’t be too much of an obstacle for most artists. WOXY LAUNCHES iPHONE APP Leading alternative and indie music webcaster WOXY has released an iPhone application. The free app from the formerly over-the-air, Cincinnati-market station tunes in to both WOXY’s main station and their vintage music stream. For more, check out WOXY’s announcement on their Futurist blog here.
PANDORA DEVELOPING APP FOR ANDROID DEVICESPandora currently has mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre devices, but support for Google’s Android operating system was notably absent. Pandora CTO Tom Conrad recently announced that the company is developing an application for Android devices. Conrad cites the Android community’s healthy development and the prospect of “extremely compelling” phones coming in the near future as reasons for Pandora’s interest in an Android app. For more, read Conrad’s announcement in his blog here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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7 gems “worth buying headphones for.” Included is Sirius XM’s recently released iPhone application, though noting that “the company has drawn fire” over what content isn’t included in the app (
I heard about a very new one only released last week for ‘The Mormon Channel’. ‘LDS Radio’ is the app’s name. You can also listen to podcasts and other content from the LDS Church website as well, and this includes a complete King James Bible audio version broken down by chapters. A few bugs have been found but so far it looks like it will become much better than now, just as the Sirius/XM and other recent new radio apps will be as well.(for info on Mormon Channel, go to mormonchannel.org).
— James Anderson · Jun 30, 04:20 PM · #
SomaFM (brand new) and Pocket-Tunes (been available for years, great app).
— Ted Leibowitz · Jun 30, 05:19 PM · #
Speaking of aggregators, another good one is ooTunes.com, it’s newer, and it is mainly for iPhone users but there may be other versions of it for other smartphones.
— James Anderson · Jun 30, 05:48 PM · #
JellyRadio has one of the applications for iPhones that I love. It’s called JellyRadio in the app store and the sound quality is the best of all the apps I have downloaded.
— Norman · Jul 7, 12:21 PM · #