SomaFM Player

SomaFM Player - BlackBerry World

Price: Free

SomaFM Player plays all of SomaFM's 32 stations for your sonic pleasure. Not only can you choose the station but the available bandwidth streams too. One of the largest fully independent internet radio stations, SomaFM has ad-free music from electronica, to indie beats, to classic honky tonk. Open the timer to go to sleep to a particular station or have a station start at a set period of time. Check out somafm.com for descriptions for all the stations. This app is made by a third-party developer. Please direct all support questions to us the developers.

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Looks fantastic! Thanks for the info and for letting us know its free!

Nice going.

Cool, thanks! Suggestion - improve channel selection screen. I find current system very cluttered. Maybe tiles would help. (but then some solution for selecting channel stream speed would be needed)

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Originally Posted by 1Criz

Cool, thanks! Suggestion - improve channel selection screen. I find current system very cluttered. Maybe tiles would help. (but then some solution for selecting channel stream speed would be needed)

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Thanks. I'll probably keep it the way it is as one reason I made it was I found selecting these stations in other Internet radio apps to take too many presses (open another tab, find station and repeat when changing stations all day). With this app, you need only scroll and tap once to change a station. Furthermore you get the stream-quality choice. And if you happen to clean install your OS you won't lose the stations. On thing I might do is make only one listing of each station and have a pop up where you tap again to select the stream rate.

Originally Posted by stardomains

On thing I might do is make only one listing of each station and have a pop up where you tap again to select the stream rate.

Double-selection would be overkill, and a global priority list would be much nicer IMHO. Strange how it seems easier to get feedback on CB from users, than getting them to post BBW reviews.

Thinking of it or favourites on top of the list.

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I listen to LUSH during work. Great selection of tracks

OK. I think I have decided how I'll allow for a shorter list. In the Settings you will be able to chose a long or short list. Long list will be the existing configuration. Short list will be one item per station and you will have to then choose the stream with buttons after you tap your station. It will take some time to do so hopefully I can get it done in the next week.

If you choose Short List in Settings this is the look and the second pic is what appears after tapping the station. Then tap the stream you want and it will play. I hope to finish it this weekend. If I have time I'll put in a favorites list that will list the station and stream you set; that will be one-tap. But I may have to delay the favorites list for the next release if I run into complexities.

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New release is up in BlackBerry App World. They said it wouldn't open on 10.1 (even though I built it with 10.1 SDK). So I had to up minimum requirement to 10.2.1 . If this affects you let me know as I'm curious if there will be many affected.

Thank you for the update. It's way more practical. Much obliged.

Does SomaFM Player buffer streams to avoid audio cutting out on unstable networks? I have noticed some interruptions, but my WiFi is rather flaky to begin with.

I would be willing to pay for a version which would unlock some advanced options (per below examples), but of course that doesn't mean anyone else would.

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Originally Posted by sedat

Does SomaFM Player buffer streams to avoid audio cutting out on unstable networks? I have noticed some interruptions, but my WiFi is rather flaky to begin with.

Yes, it does buffer. The circular activity monitor stops when buffering is finished.


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Cool! Updated.
I am still somewhat not enthusiastic about channel selection UI design, despite change, but this is tiny personal niggle in this otherwise very useful application. Thanks. Rated with 5 stars in store.


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