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Just Browsing

Bill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:45:55 +0000

We’ve been heads-down trying to better understand radio browse behavior. As always, the goal is to make the path for find/listen simple.

The two charts show a top-level summary of what users click first from the current menu structure.

All Digital Home Adapter products

All Mobile Applications

This sample was a Friday, weekend use varies. We only considering sessions when the first click was browse or search (ignoring 80% of use that starts with a Preset).

Record Streaming Radio with Windows 7

Bill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:44:19 +0000

Windows 7 is fast and beautiful, but it breaks radio recording utilities. Fortunately the current RedButton is fully compatible.

RedButton is a great TiVo for Radio desktop solution that ads pause and scheduled recording to RadioTime’s program guide. The desktop tuner and pause features are free. Recording is still a low-low one-time $29 fee (warning – a price raise is coming soon). Finished recordings automatically synch with your iPhone or Touch.

Get your copy here

RedButton Support for Windows 7

Bill — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:24:42 +0000

Legions of RedButton users can upgrade to Windows 7 and take advantage of all the RedButton “TiVo for Radio” pause and recording features.

Version 2.955 was released last Friday and has been working well. See the release notes here.

Learn more about RedButton here

RadioTime Adds Video

thomas — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:42:23 +0000

We’re live with a maintenance release of the RadioTime site and API platform, featuring more organized video stream browsing. If your player supports Windows Video (v9) you will find a new root-level menu in OPML and OpenMedia for “Live TV”. We’ll be working in the coming week on a TV channel with best bets for a great experience.

Meanwhile on the radio side, we completed our roll-out of live song information. You’ll see now playing artist and title for several thousand stations in the US. We hope to expand this coverage later in the year and work in features like search for song, recommend stations by artist, and playlist history.

Minor site updates

Bill — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:33:03 +0000

Now you can search for categories like espn, canada, or jazz and see browse options along with individual results. You’ll also see radiotime.com has the station/show/filter option restored. The option has been missing for a few months along with advanced filtering as we move results filtering from the browser to the service.

The build today also includes “under the hood” improvements for geolocation and local radio, plus new OPML APIs for account management.

As always, let us know if you spot any problems.

Ministry of Sound

Bill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:51:27 +0000

The new Ministry of Sound’s iPhone application is already the #6 music app in the UK store.

The app combines WunderRadio player technology and special content channels from RadioTime featuring Ministry of Sound dance and on-demand, along with local radio and browse.

Read more about the app from the Ministry of Sound blog

See screenshots on the RadioTime Flickr page

Buy the MOS application from iTunes for £3.99 in the UK or $6.99 US.

Its’s Widget Time

Bill — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:57:45 +0000

Local widget is live on Embarq.com

Listen and read Tweets

Bill — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:31:23 +0000

It’s fun to listen while watching Tweets with the audience.

Scott Kleinberg reviews the feature in today’s Chicago Tribune redeye.com.

The Twitter feed feature is now live in the RadioTime service APIs.

TV Widget

Bill — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:32 +0000

Enjoy radio on your TV. It’s already connected to the best audio system in your home and is (or will soon be) connected to the internet through your home network.

In-Stat forecast over a quarter billion connected TVs or various set top boxes will ship in 2012. In-Stat also reports 55% of Americans already listen to music from their TV set. .

RadioTime has offered a Windows Media Center Edition solution for a few years, even bundling the app with popular extenders. More recently Boxee added RadioTime as a feature.

We have higher hopes for apps and widgets bundled with popular TV products including today’s announcement with Vizio.

See a few early TV widget screenshots.

BBC for Everyone

Bill — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:12:56 +0000

As of today BBC Radio 1 thru BBC Radio 4 are available for most users — living inside or outside of the UK.

BBC National stations have long been available outside the UK by using their Real Networks stream — desktop had the download/install/browser plug-in hassles. Unfortunately, few connected devices support Real Networks streams which kept these (most popular global) stations off limits.

Now the rest of the world can join UK users and enjoy the major BBC stations globally thru the Windows Media streams.

Now most RadioTime users will find BBC under World->National Networks->BBC. Or you can find them by browsing the UK, or searching for BBC. BBC Listen again content is still only available in Real, but you can access some programs on-demand or for download in the MP3 format.