Just in case a new
iPhone model and OS 3.0 weren't enough goodies for this week,
Sirius XM support team members are sending emails out announcing the company's
long-awaited iPhone / iPod touch app will finally seeing the light of day and will launch this Thursday, June 18th. We just got off the phone with a customer service rep who confirmed the letters are legit, so unless there's some communication breakdown on the corporate ladder, looks like it's really, finally coming. It'll be available as a free download from the App Store, but those who subscribe to the
gratis Basic Online Service will have to upgrade to the $2.99 monthly premium plan to have it on the go. We're a bit light on other details -- we can't imagine it being as full-featured as the standalone receivers -- but it's a good bet we'll have all our questions answered before the week is out.
posted Jun 16th 2009 9:09PM
looks pretty cool, my only concern is what stations it will be getting
None of the good ones for sure. Try the AOL Radio app, it's free and works on Edge, 3G and WiFi. I cancelled my XM radio after I discovered it.
Don't forget Shoutcast and Pandora. Honestly, I think Pandora beats the crap out of XM/Serious.
OPIE and ANTHONY !
Bababooey!! Bababooey!! Bababooey!! Howard Stern!!!
O&A and Ron and FEz are the only reasons I keep XM around but I'm going streaming only the moment this app finally releases.
Can't wait to try it out on my new 3Gs over the weekend.
Stop spamming the iphone news engadget we dont need an article about every new application , how about doing the same for symbian then?
Thanks for posting this engadget, I really appreciate it!
I probably wouldn't have heard about it anywhere else, this is the only place I need visit anyway..
iPhone is the best, and AT&T i good also.
Keep up the good work.
Symbian doesn't have apps anyone wants, they are all hack apps from euro geeks
Is it corporate latter or corporate ladder?
You climb the corporate ladder... not certain what you do with a latter.
Later.
It's the latter... er, you get it.
you can already stream xm and sirius through Pocket Tunes
+1. Been using this for a few days days and Sirius is streaming perfectly, and at a nice 128 kbps too. Oh, and I don't have to pay any extra $2.99 either (maybe because I'm in Canada?)
Pocket Tunes only gets the ONLINE sirius/XM feed which doesn't include ALL available channesls nor does Pocket Tunes display Artist Title info.
I believe (but could be wrong) that the entire available SiriusXM channel lineup will be available (not just the online ones) the same way that the Stilleto can connect to all channels even over WiFi
@logicbomb.de
Hm, I would assume this app would only allow us too access what is available in the online stream. I actually didn't know the Stiletto could connect to everything. I guess we'll have to see.
But, that sucks that we have to have the $3 premium online option. I'd like to be able to use this app for free.
Who cares about this. Why should I listen to what XM/Sirius is playing, when I can just use Pandora and play something of my choice?
Two words: Howard Stern.
2 words:
over rated
Overrated is one word. But I agree with you.
I dunno,
Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, NFL, NASCAR, Stern, Opie and Anthony, Scot Farrell...
all shit you WON'T find on free internet radio
MSNBC isn't on XM. It USED TO BE a year or two back, but no longer (it was on XM 130). Was part of my reason for subscribing originally. The fact that it isn't carried anymore is part of the reason I'm considering cancelling.
I don't think that Stern will be part of 'this app'... but i hope i'm wrong
@holycow
why WOULN'T Stern be on this "app" [sic]??
any logical reason why you'd think?
The only reason why I think that is because the online XM radio doesn't have all the channels in it, whereas my car radio does, And seeing how this is web based i don't think it'll be included. I might be wrong and Stern might be part of the online radio thing in US.
P.S. I am in Canada.
if you have the Best of Sirius package on your XM account, then you'll have Stern
If I am an XM Sirius subscriber in my car and on a portable radio, can I access this for free? And I also heard that the app itself is going to cost money. Is this true? If it is, that is a horrible move, because Pandora is essentially the same thing (minus the talk and sports). If I get sports on this, then it is a different story, but I do not think that is the case.
RTFA
RTFS (Read the fucking summary)
Haha! Haubey is a dummy.
sorry. now I no better. some nicer let downs would have been, well, nicer.
Baba haubey!
There have been WinMo sirius apps for a while. Unfortunately Sirius killed the best one and probably will not put out as good of one on their own. I enjoy Sirius, but crippling the online experience in order to jam radios down the throats of the users has gotten old. Hopefully they will surprise me and make the mobile phone applications available on multiple platforms and a better experience than their terrible online player. Hey, here's to hoping.
This is the first news that actually makes me want an iPhone.
Really? Cos there's a shitload of phones that have had a Sirius app for a couple of years now. Maybe you should research phones to find what features you want instead of waiting for someone to spoon feed you.
No / Sarcasm.
Pandora is not very good, try Jango or spring for napster if you can bear the burden of $5 a month
A lot of people would beg to differ, I for one. I think Pandora is great. But to each his own, if you haven't tried it, try it. Hey, its free! If you don't like it, delete it. Maybe you'll like last.fm or slacker or whatever better.
i've tried pandora. i think jango is far better, just not amped nearly as much
Slacker Radio all the way! I'm dumping my XM account and will be using it in my car. Even paying the $3.00 for the premium vs free is cheaper than XM and the music is better.
The streaming feature through the web allows access to every station - I quite like it and definitely think it's worth the $2.99 service fee (which requires an already existing subscription to other services). You can get internet only access... but I think it's closer to $10 a month.
There is a minimal version of the service that isn't as great of quality... and maybe doesn't offer full access to content... and I believe is free to subscribers. It sounds like the iPhone service is targeted only at the tier of "premium" subscribers who pay $3 extra for it - which would make sense.
While an app is great, I've been streaming XM on my Storm since the day I got it. uXM + Orb. Frunkis.
You missed six "r"s and an "h" . . . .
Maybe if I could find something I liked on Sirius, I'd be more than slightly amused.
Does it run in the background, or do we have to wait for a pre version to do that?
that is a great point. i guess not. that puts a hindrance in any 3rd party music app. perhaps this is why there is no background processing? that and the battery life. but with the improved bettery in the 3gs background processing should be doable.
To get it running in the background you have to jailbreak and then install the Cydia app Backgrounder. Works great for me. Now, if only Apple could get this crazy new "background app" concept into their heads, they maybe onto a winner.
How much you want to bet that somehow this app won't stream O&A. One big happy family, right Sirius?
If you have XM or best of XM on Sirius then you should be able to get them
Tell 'em Fred.
Yeah but if you're on Sirius and not XM, you have to pay for "best of XM" to get O&A, and then pay another $2.99 a month for the iPhone app?
I'm on Sirius and would love to get O&A but I can't bring myself to pay any more than I already do. If they roll ALL SiriXM stations into this app I'd be willing to pay for it, but not if I have to pay for Best of XM as well.
Damn! Thought I had the first O&A reference. Didn't see the frunkis. ..
Thats too bad
I wish they had a cheap option for people who only use the iPhone service.
Now it just needs to be able to play in the background while you do other stuff.....
Did anyone notice how there was a "Provider" sign on where "AT&T" is usually supposed to be?
I sure hope this isn't anything like their craptastic Blackberry app.
The online apps DON'T stream _every_ station - especially not the sports games. However, they do stream plenty of music and talk stations. I expect the iPhone/Touch app will steam the same stations as the online apps provide.
As I stream XMRO every day at work, I find it very much worth the money. I like Pandora, too, but sometimes I don't want to have to think about the programming.
Agreed. It's ridiculous that you actually have to pay more than the PC streaming version for the phone version.
Could you stream radio like while driving if the area you are in is well covered by 3G? That'd be awesome for $3.00 per month.
Why would you bother doing that when you can go get a sat radio for under $50?
i'm just trying to justify paying $50/mo for a phone plan (50 min + 6GB data)... been used to paying $100/yr credit on pay as you go (at 30c/ min)... i just don't use a cell phone that much. but i would like gps, teathering to laptop, and more.
SWEET! ill gladly pay for it
So when is this app coming out for the 16 million active BlackBerry users?
Will it work in Canada??
Should work wherever there's 3G/Wi-Fi. It doesn't use satellite, just a internet connection. (Unless the 3GS has a satellite transceiver I'm unaware of)
I am wondering the same thing, since we get the Online streaming for free with the regular subscription.
I would soooo love this as streaming is blocked at my work and I could just stream Sirius over 3G and finally be able to maybe hit 2Gb of my 6Gig data plan...
Awesome! Ron and Fez 11 - 3 !
I miss Opie & Anthony myself. T_T
too bad xm/sirius is just as repetitive as fm radio. i can get a sub for free at work and still won't bother. i have to change the station constantly because just like fm, you hear the same 10 songs over and over.
i know quite well the 90's had enough decent songs to fill more than a couple of hours.
Anyone can get music anywhere.
The exclusive content is what is the main draw for SatRad
Everyone pays for online service now - nothing is gratis.
Good thing we let them merge, huh? Not allowed to raise prices, right?
Unless it is charging for formerly free services....
Or unless it is a 2nd radio....
Or....
Or....
And frrrrrrunkis has 6 'R's: http://www.oapedia.com/index.php/Frrrrrrunkis!
-bZj
Now hopefully there will be an official native app for us Windows Mobile users. There's already some ways to get it on, but native support would be nice too.
I already listen to Stern on my iPhone. All you need is the Shoutcast app or any Webradio app that supports PLS files.
This is nice, but when will the app that makes Stern's show not suck come out? You know, the one that will make him actually work Fridays, force him to not take a week-long vacation every other week, fires Artie "Hey, did you hear? I'm a drug addict!" Lange, gets him to dump his vapid, horse-faced, gold-digging wife, stops the endless plugging for his sh-ty pay-cable show, stops the fake phony calls and fake callers, and stops turning his show into "The View" for old men? Stern was the only reason I listened to SiriXM. Now he's the reason I don't. There's no reason to pay for Sirius when you can get Slacker, Pandora, AOL, and torrents for free. F Stern, seriously.
It' won't just be 2.99, they fail to include the new royalty charges. I just got this in an e-mail today:
"Beginning on July 29, 2009, a “U.S. Music Royalty Fee” of $1.98/month* for primary subscriptions and $.97/month* for multi-receiver subscriptions will be effective upon your next renewal. "
Finally...................long awaited Sirius app, maybe now my stock will rise, lol, *fingers crossed*
But the main reason is now I can finally listen to Howard Stern where ever I am here in the country of beer and schnitzel. Woo FRIGGIN’ hooooooooooooooo!!!
The $2.99/month Sirius charges isn't just to be able to use this app. It's for the premium internet stream that streams at 128k versus the 32k free stream. The quality alone is worth it.
How come there is no Howard Stern on the iPhone app? I just loaded on my iPhone...what a rip off...come on Sirius...the man reason people want the app is because of Howard Stern...
I will be deleting the app and not paying until Howard is on. Everyone pls start complaining about this app....