[fat controller]

My new phone has come with the Tune In Radio app pre-installed, and to be honest it is something that I might occasionally use - however, I wondered how data hungry it would be, as if I did use it, I would be liable to for a good few hours?

[Thine Wonk]

It depends on your data allowance really. I use it most days for about 40 minutes and that would use about 1 to 1.5 gigs of data a month.

[wrexham103.4]

ive only ever used it with wifi for this reason

[Resonance]

It depends on the bit rate of the radio station. Many stations offer a number of streams at different bit rates. In the Tunin app you can choose the bit rate. To do this once you've searched for a station or you are in your presets swipe your finger from right to left over the station name. The choice of bit rates will then appear (providing the station offers more than one stream). The lower the bit rate you choose the less data you'll use, however lower bit rates mean lower audio quality (when using the same codec).

Here's a calculator for figuring out how much data you'll use for various bit rate streams

http://servers.internet-radio.com/tools/bandwidth/

Just to add the calculator is actually for figuring out bandwidth usage from the stations point of view. It still works fine for the listeners purposes, just make sure one listener is selected.

[alanwarwic]

For 3G it is best avoided unless on real unlimited data.

If a Tunein station is a common 192K then that is 90MB per hour.
On Yourmuze you can set this downwards to anything what you want.

I have yet to see it get publicised anywhere of note, just like its predecessor Moodio..
Yet Youurmuze.fm has no big corporation backing but is data friendly and the only one really suitable for 3G.

[Resonance]

Originally Posted by alanwarwic

For 3G it is best avoided unless on real unlimited data.

If a Tunein station is a common 192K then that is 90MB per hour.
On Yourmuze you can set this downwards to anything what you want.

I have yet to see it get publicised anywhere of note, just like its predecessor Moodio..
Yet Youurmuze.fm has no big corporation backing but is data friendly and the only one really suitable for 3G.

I've seen bit rates offered as low as 24K AAC on Tunein. As I said earlier you can choose whatever the station offers.

[fat controller]

Thanks all, as I've got a 1gb limit, it looks like the iPod will continue to be my music source when out and about then

[alanwarwic]

Originally Posted by Resonance

I've seen bit rates offered as low as 24K AAC on Tunein. As I said earlier you can choose whatever the station offers.

Yes, but only what's offered. There is not the certainty of the homebrew.

[TheBigM]

Originally Posted by fat controller

My new phone has come with the Tune In Radio app pre-installed, and to be honest it is something that I might occasionally use - however, I wondered how data hungry it would be, as if I did use it, I would be liable to for a good few hours?

What is your new phone?

[JethroUK]

Originally Posted by fat controller

My new phone has come with the Tune In Radio app pre-installed, and to be honest it is something that I might occasionally use - however, I wondered how data hungry it would be, as if I did use it, I would be liable to for a good few hours?

Asked the same thing to the man in Carphone warehouse today - he said its not that bad because most of it is compressed

[ijf]

Originally Posted by fat controller

Thanks all, as I've got a 1gb limit, it looks like the iPod will continue to be my music source when out and about then

Download something like 3G Watchdog to keep check on how much data you're using.

[fat controller]

Originally Posted by TheBigM

What is your new phone?

HTC One X - which I am sure will be great when Virgin finally manage to get me a micro SIM that works, and will take my phone number.

They have until Tuesday, then they will have two phones being returned.

[wolfticket]

You can pick and choose streams to minimise bit rates, but talk radio seems to commonly run about 56kbps, which equates to about 25MB an hour.

For me (on 1GB per month) this means I don't worry about using it from time to time to listen to something specific for a few hours, but I have to be careful about using it regularly or leaving it on.

[belfastbear51]

I would use this app In work allot via bt open zone which you get included in your orange contract

[nuttybutty]

I'm not sure if this is right but over the past few weeks I've been downloading a few hours of audio overnight using wi-fi on Tune-in and then playing it when I drive round.

It doesn't seem to be sapping the 3g limit (as far as I'm able to see) when listening to it, so is that right that it doesn't use the 3g signal?

[alanwarwic]

For mono speech, 12K is about the minimum you need to choose.

It works for the cricket.

[Schadenfreud]

Originally Posted by nuttybutty

I'm not sure if this is right but over the past few weeks I've been downloading a few hours of audio overnight using wi-fi on Tune-in and then playing it when I drive round.

It doesn't seem to be sapping the 3g limit (as far as I'm able to see) when listening to it, so is that right that it doesn't use the 3g signal?

No, if you're using wi-fi to download then it won't use any of your data allowance.
If you listen to a lot of radio programs, then Radio Downloader from here http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/ might be a better tool for you.

I use it quite a bit and never miss a program

[douknowotimean?]

I used youmuze on the iPhone for the first time over the weekend, listening to Heart, Capital and Radio 1. Yes there is a difference in Quality but it does save battery life too which for me is pretty amazing.

[owhittle]

What about using the Onavo app- found this yesterday

[Mark in Essex]

Originally Posted by fat controller

HTC One X - which I am sure will be great when Virgin finally manage to get me a micro SIM that works, and will take my phone number.

They have until Tuesday, then they will have two phones being returned.

There is a built in DATA monitor built into Android 4 (ICS).

Just look under settings, DATA and then you can set the dates your contract goes from on each day of the month, then a warning (say 800mb if you have a 1gb package) and then a limit to stop you downloading any more (say at 1gb or just under).

Also it shows you how much data had been used on each application over the mobile network and also you can look at the same thing for wireless connection.

It's worth setting this up as soon as somebody gets a new mobile not on an unlimited data tariff.