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So the last few days I have been checking out an app called DroidLive. So far this has been one of my favorite apps. This app lets you stream live internet radio feeds to your phone that use the SHOUTcast servers. Right now there are 31,336  streams. Some of my favorite movie soundtrack stations and old hip-hop stations. This weekend I am going to see if anyone is streaming the Raider game.

As a test yesterday I drove to work (about 10 miles through the city) and listened to a station the whole way. Today I lost the signal a few times. Streaming services were never really designed for data devices that are constantly moving like cell phones. Of course all it would take is a 5-10 second buffer to avoid this which it may have and I passed that up. While walking or running in the city I am guessing the signal will be steady. I might test the walking, but good luck on me testing the running unless a pack of wild dogs starts to chase me. At that point the myTouch becomes a weapon.

The interface let’s you look at the top stations, browse by genre, search, view favorites, view history and view tagged. The favorites and tagged are a really good feature. I tried out another SHOUTcast app and it didn’t have the ability to ad favorites. It didn’t last long on my phone. Most of the music that is streamed contains tags like mp3’s that contain the artist and song title. If you hear a song you like you can press the tagged button and add it to a list that you can view later. Then you can go to your favorite music store and purchase the song.

This app comes as a free app with ads or $2.99 (one time) for the no ad version. As far as I can tell all the features are the same between both. They did strategically place the adds so that you might accidentally hit them which I have done.

This is an app I could see paying for.

DroidLiveLite (free): http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.DroidLiveLite

DroidLive ($2.99): http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.DroidLivePlayer