ooTunes Update!
Version 2.5 of the ooTunes Radio app for iPhone/iPod Touch is now available!!!
The free update will show up in the "updates" tab within the blue "App Store" app on your iPhone/iPod Touch, or Get it now!
So what's new??
The biggest change is that searching the list of over 12,000 streams is now fast again!
Other novelties aren't as significant, but here's a few:
- Play in background mode for many streams, without using the ooTunes Server!
- Sleep Timer.
- Better suppor for Sirius.
- World Cities List. (and Canadian Provinces/Territories, yes Canada, I love you long time!)
- 12,000+ streams!
- Re-ordering of Favorites.
- 40 new countries added.
- RTSP and RTMP (flash audio) support.
- Greatly improved Ogg Vorbis support.
- Fullscreen and landscape mode web browser.
- Built in browser respects "parental controls" and won't open arbitrary webpage if Safari is disabled.
- Completely accessible with VoiceOver enabled.
- Settings now available in the app.
- Greatly improved buffering/rebuffering and reconnecting
- Send email from the app.
- Much lower CPU/Battery usage.
- More responsive.
- Fixed LyricWiki provided lyrics.
- Bookmark tracks after they're played
- Improved support for adding custom streams.
- Optimized for 3GS and 3.0 but backward compatible with OS 2.2.
- Lots of minor improvements, thanks for all the great feedback! Keep it coming!
- Various Bug Fixes
- Option to play in browser for fast-forward/rewind.
- Greatly improved buffering.
- Better support for photos.
- Support for pdf and other documents.
- Can now "bookmark" tracks from the server to easily play them back later.
- Displays how much of a track has been downloaded.
- Beta support for watching almost any video, even live video streams.
- 17+ rating is due to the built in unfiltered webbrowser. Disable safari in parental controls to disable ooTunes' web browser.
As always...
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! Lots more still to come....
If you like it, please TELL YOUR FRIENDS (the more people using the app, the better the odds of the "RooLette" :), leave a review in the App Store (or update it if you already left one and this fixes any issues), blog about it, tell your favorite radio stations to promote it!
Thanks for your support!
Steve
(ooTunes Nerd #1)
P.S. The ooTunes Server is improving slowly but surely. Support for sharing your iPhoto photo library is now almost complete. Ability to stream almost any video (in almost any format, even live video) is currently in beta testing. If you haven't updated in a while, go here to get the latest ooTunes Server version. Remember, you can test most of the ooTunes Server functionality using the demo account, even within the app.