Can’t Stop Tinkering

Can’t Stop Tinkering

October 25th, 2010 → 1:26 pm @

Right on the heels of version 2.1.3, known to historians as “The Multitasking Version”, comes version 2.1.4. When you install this latest update, here’s what you’ll get:

  • A fix for those of you who experienced the audio stream starting up during a phone call
  • A fix for a handful of station streams whose formats weren’t supported earlier
  • A new feature: See what’s playing now on the stations in your Favorites list (due to popular demand)
  • A nifty little streaming trick to save battery life

Plus a few other bug fixes and improvements. With each version, we aim to make the app better and better. So be sure to download those updates to get the full benefit of the Public Radio Player.


One Comment → “Can’t Stop Tinkering”


  1. Raketemensch

    2 years ago

    Love the app. Truly.

    One thing I thought of, though… I’m not sure if you’re actually streaming the shows or downloading podcasts, but the Pandora player for iPhone/Android has pretty much the sweetest mobile audio going, and here’s why…

    When it starts to play a song, it starts downloading the whole thing into a buffer, just like a streamer would, except that it will download the whole file *well* ahead of the spot it’s playing.

    The upshot is that when you’re driving in an area that has spotty coverage, or where you *know* you would drop a call, you almost never lose the audio because you have a big chunk of it pre-downloaded. When you get back into better coverage, it just picks up the downloading where it left off.

    It’s better than buffering a stream, because the whole file can be downloaded whenever you have solid coverage.

    While listening to any streaming apps on my commute, I can predict exactly where the stream is going to drop. With Pandora, this never happens, because I’ve pre-fetched the file.

    Since you guys are putting out shows that are available as podcasts, perhaps you could do this as well?

    Or perhaps you already are….