IPhone's inability to play radio streaming programs

I recently purchased an 8GB iPhone, thinking it would be a mobile means of running software and programs that I enjoy on my home computers. Was I ever surprised find no 'Radio' listing on the phone's iTunes page! I have searched the internet to find a way to download software that would allow me to play the radio programs that I like, but they require one to violate the ATT contract to 'unlock' the phone. Is anyone at Apple alert to the needs and wants of their loyal purchasing public?

I wasn't surprised that the streaming radio didn't work, but it IS part of iTunes on our computers, iTunes IS a built in app on the iPhone.
I suspect that the bandwidth over Edge isn't fast enough for live radio streaming, though.

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Is it really true that the new Intel-based machines will not ever play live streaming radio broadcasts?
I cannot seem to get this thing to work at all - Flip4Mac, WMP 9.0, nothing seems to work, although my G5 (which is being sold) does. (Some have said that one must run Safari in "Rosetta" mode with the new Intels; if so, how is this done?)
Will this ever be corrected?
Thanks all in advance for your help!
David

Seems strange you can't get audio to work natively.
Your 3 most popular choices: RealPlayer, Windows Media formats via Flip4Mac, and QuickTime.
RealPlayer - do you have the lastest version (10.1) installed? If you do, have a look at your RealPlayer preferences>Media Types (top 4 boxes selected), Internet (Internet settings - 1st and 3rd box; Web Browser - both boxes checked) and Transport (Network Transport box checked).
QuickTime: System Preferences>Quicktime>Advanced>Mime settings>Audio - make sure all are checked (the only one unchecked for me is "sound designer II". Also, the Miscellaneous box is unchecked.
Flip4Mac - System Preferences>Flip4Mac: Plug-in - 1st and 3rd boxes checked; Movies>1st box checked (obviously not audio related, however, good to make sure it's selected).
Let me know if that helps get you back into the Intel Native mode for audio streaming.
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Since update to Version 11.0.2 none of my saved radio stations is available. If I click on "play" iTunes plays the next album but not the selected stream. Same thing if I want to add a new stream - it plays my recorded voice mails instead of the streams. Any hints?

That was obviously not the problem (I've seen that other users had this kind of problem).
Radio button was in place and I could see all my radio stations - but none of them was playing.
Today I was trying again - and miracle: all streams work!
Since I didn't change my settings or version I guess that the problem was elsewhere (or within iTunes).
Unfortunately this will not help other people having the same problem - I don't know why it's solved now.

Re: Did you know: Playing radio streams from bulletin board

a) Make a textfile with the url.
b) Rename the file ending to .asx.
c) Draw the file from the explorer to the bulletin board

Yes! More or less! I am very happy!
I'm using 9 desktops with "dextop". I've installed the multi-touch pack from microsoft with its "flicks". Panning is enabled in my firefox browser. It's a very good system.
(I've disabled automatic rotation. There were to much bugs with explorer.)
Sometimes the screen stops to react. The solution is the following: I hold down the hardware-key for ctrl-alt-del until the screen with the task manager appears. Then I touch cancel and everything works again.
Bulletin Board is very cool with 9 desktops: All the windows of every screen appear in the list of open windows. So applications can easily be moved from one desktop to another one. And with bulletin board you can start applications on the desktop you want and play multimedia files.
But in the last time I've sometimes a problem: When I restart the computer from standby and I touch the lower screen the cursor appears in the higher screen. I think that the problem is linked to the bulletin board. I've no good solution for the problem. I close the computer and restart it from standby and everything is fine again.
The w100 is a very good computer. The dual screen is very useful. I can always switch the keyboard to the screen where it doesn't hide important informations.
I can read big articles on two screens.
For programming it is very useful too. With the panning I can go through the program text in Delphi very fast. I can insert the text exactly at the place were is belongs without mouse movements. I can move parts of text very fast. ...and I can work in my bed! With the visual C++ express editor the panning doesn't work very well. But the scroll bars are very reactif if I double click them.
I like very much the bulletin board, but there are some bugs. It has much potential and could be a very rich platform for multimedia and social services. I can start directly my delphi projects from bulletin board with double click and open my browser from bulletin board directly at the right page.
I take pictures of the digital edition of my news paper on the bulletin board.
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i doubled clicked one of the triangles and the category disappeared

karol wrote:
I'm sorry, looks like the Banshee Wiki is disabled at the moment.
Arch wiki should cover everything Arch-specific and some other things *users find useful*. Arch specific means pacman, not Banshee. Do you know how do you write a wiki? You search for the relevant information and put it in there yourself, so that others could benefit. You've noticed that the wiki is lacking info about how to play radio streams in Banshee or Exaile. Great, go and find that info (read the FAQ on Banshee's site, google, read MLs) and be sure put a nice HOWTO into the Arch wiki when you find the answer.
Radio streams don't play in Exaile either. It does show that it's playing but no sound.
Doesn't anybody here use Exaile or Banshee?
I can play the streams going to radiocrazy.ch or somafm.com and then opening them with VLC.
Why would it play that way and not throught one of the other programs?

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Itunes plays radio streams ok for a while, but eventually the music stops. Pressing stop to restart the url doesnt work, the whole of itunes becomes frozen and unresponsive and needs to be force quit everytime.
Its very frustrating as when you restart itunes it needs to then check the whole library.
Playback is fine for all hard drive content. Happens on both ethernet and airport connection.
Cant seem to find other people having the same kind of issue.
Have reinstalled itunes several time to no avail.
Any ideas?

I think I have the same problem and I am pretty sure I can give a recipe for replicating it: listen to any radio stream; when the stream gets interrupted for buffering (if you have multiple windows open, you probably won't notice the little dialog box popping), press the "PLAY" key on your keyboard. Voilà. iTunes hanged.
I've submitted countless bug/crash reports on OS 10.5 and OS 10.6. Something changed in Lion (10.7) in that even though iTunes still *has* to be force-quit, it doesn't count it as a crash and so there's no prompt to submit a report.
Frankly, I am kind of amazed that this years-old bug which probably affects just about everyone listening to streams is not fixed already.
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Copied from your initial post:
" I was looking for a way of downloading .m3u files and putting them on my iPhone"
Hence my reply.
Look in the app store for a streaming app, there are many.

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Just received my new bd AEBS. I have it hooked up to a 2tb Lacie Harddrive, over which I am running Time Machine.
Everything seems as it should be except that my iPhone will not now stream radio very well. I have a few different radio streaming apps on it, and they are all stuttering away. Meanwhile, radio streaming over iTunes on my MBP works just fine. Any thoughts?
I have not messed around with any other settings on the AEBS except the one that allows the harddrive to mount over the network. I also have a guest network running in parallel.
I thought it might be Time Machine slowing the network down at first, as the first backup is absolutely enormous. But even stopping that, the iPhone radio streaming is still pretty bad.
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weird very weird. today i did this again today after already being unsuccessful earlier. exactly the same thing as i have done before, exactly. didn't try to import. didn't say damaged library, copied everything in including date. have tried it about 10 times no luck. today it just worked.
how weird is that?
oh well JG - maybe you mixed a magic potion for me?
anyway, thank you for all the help.
to anyone else reading this all i can say is keep trying, you never know. follow the above advice. you may feel exasperated and think you have done it already, but keep trying.
cheers
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Now, my other need (?). I want to run something on my Mac that lets me select Internet radio station streams like TuneIn for ex., but I want to be able to change selections on whatever is on the Mac from the iPhone 4. What I want to do is use the iPhone 4 as a remote for the app on the Mac which I want to connect to either some external speakers or someday to a real external Dac, amp, and speakers.
I have the TuneIn Pro app on my iPhone 4 already and on the Mac via browser have accessed their website.
Now someone surely is going to mention Airplay or something to stream from the iPhone4. From the cost of Airplay capable hardware, I just can't afford it yet. Maybe if I could find Bluetooth speaker or device?
One other thing to throw in for thought. I have not only iTunes on my MacBook Pro, but also Fidelia and Amarra, and thinking about Decibel or Audirvana. In other words somewhat hi-def music output quality available on the Mac. So....I do have a remote app for Fidelia and think there's one for either Decibel or Audirvana, so that brings me back to Internet radio on the MacBook Pro. If I can find a way to use the iPhone 4 to select an app on the Mac for Internet radio, I can play those plus hi-def music via one of those programs.
I probably didn't say all that right, but I hope you can decipher what I am asking about.
If nothing else, can you recommend inexpensive Bluetooth speakers to play radio from the iPhone4? I was hoping to buy some AudioEngine powered speakers for the Mac, hence the desire to run all sound/music through that device but using the iPhone4 as control device.

Hi Starbux48
First off. The benefits of using Amarra, Pure Music, Audirvana or whatever, can only be heard if you have a true audiophile system set-up. Think of systems starting from 5000 U$. Then only if your music files are high resolution. Think ALAC or FLAC, AIFF or Wave. For all other music playing the itunes set-up suffices. So the better idea for you will be playing the music over your macbook.
Mountain lion offers airplay for intel based macs. You can use this. If you install the free Remote App. on your iPhone, you can use that to control itunes on your Macbook via wifi/Airplay. The remote app offers you the view of itunes on your Macbook and the screen of your Macbook changes with what you do on your iPhone. So you can even control the itunes radiostation from your iPhone.
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