Internet Radio Box 2.0 Announcement
Written on July 27th, 2010, by Arny
We are excited to announce the next major version of Internet Radio Box!
Internet Radio Box 2.0 is a whole new application we have been redesigning and recoding from ground up to bring you a new experience.
These are just few of the features coming:
- iPad & iPhone 4 support in addition to iPhone 3G/3Gs and iPod Touch.
- New design & new fullscreen player look!
- Widgets! Makes it easier to navigate compared to the TabBar navigation.
No place limitation when there are many widgets. - Cover Image! (If available)
- Buy the song at iTunes! (If available)
- TimeShift! You are able to pause the stream up to 8MByte (yet unclear whether to make this editable).
- Vorbis/OGG format support and HE-AAC hardware support!
- Landscape orientation support (except home screen on the iPhone).
- RadioDeck directory will replace RadioBOX Directory.
- RadioDeck favorites are stored online! Share your favorites between your favorite devices!
- and more …
This update will be available for free to all Internet Radio Box users!
We are working hard to bring this update as soon as possible.
Our release date is set to mid August, if everything is going well.
Note: We encourage all radio broadcasters to join our network at www.RadioDeck.com
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Tis is pörno!
Need now!
wth… This Is Madness!!
I like it already! ^.^
Will this support the iPhone 4′s Retina Display?
Yes, and it looks just gorgeous!
Will favourites be able to be grouped into folders?
I have a lot, folders would save a lot of time.
Could we have editing of stations from the web interface please?
Tom, not yet. We’ll see if we can provide it with later update.
Dave, as we need to rewamp the whole web interface to support radiodeck online favorites, we will have to exclude the web interface in the next update. Will be readded on later update again.
Right now we are working hard to port all the stations from radiobox directory to radiodeck. Hope to get finished soon.
Awesome, i hope the picture app will be better, because currently radio box is the only one on my homescreen that doenst support retina and looks kind of foogy.
Its no mid of august, when can i download it
Beautiful! Can’t wait. Also will there be an option to save the name of the song currently playing if RDS available? I would prefer it rather than memorizing it. Since my country is not supported to buy songs via iTunes, I am left for alternative song e-shops like 7digital, so It would be great if I could save information about songs which are playing in the app
Servus,
bitte stellt in dem neuen Release sicher, dass man weiter so komfortabel die Favoriten editieren kann wie heute. Der Hinweis auf Radiodeck macht mir da etwas Sorgen, z.b. findet Radiobox jeweils 6 Kanäle vom HR und BR, Radiodeck heute nur 3 vom BR und keinen vomnHR.
Die jetzige Radiobox ist schon die beste Radioapp auf dem Iphone, bitte verschlimmbessert da nichts.
Danke Euch
Jan
Hallo Jan,
Die Favoriten sind in zwei Bereiche eingeteilt.
RadioDeck Favoriten und normale Favoriten.
Man muss aber bedenken, dass die RadioBOX Directory irgendwann offline gehen wird und die Links ungültig werden.
Gruß
Great application for iPhone / iPod touch and clearly getting even better – but when will we get an Android version???
Just downloaded version 2.0
terrible interface
no help
can’t find my stations
what is the list of stations I see (who wants them how do I delete them)
this is so disappointing
unless you explain somewhere I will have to delete app!!!! Used to love it but new interface is anything but intuitive what is ice????? Looking at your reviews I am not alone here
Hello Henriette,
I’m shocked by the negative reviews.
People actually didn’t like the old interface because they always had to switch back to home screen to get to their favorites. It wasn’t that intuitive.
This update was announced weeks before and we had only positive feedback. But now that.
We will bring the missing features with the next update.
Let people to disable featured stations. This stations are actually random selections that are made every 6hours. We are not getting money for that.
And there are few people working day and night to transfer all old stations to RadioDeck.
We try our best to improve the app, but there is no going back to the old interface now.
I agree with Henriette. Terrible interface. Lists radio stations I dont want.
And why-oh-why are my favourites stored on your Server meaning I have to create yet another internet account and log in every time I want to access my favourites. Why? I suspects it’s so you can sell this info to the Radio Stations for promotional targetting! Or are you planning to charge us for using your service sometime in the near future?
Up until now I have recommended your app to everyone I know who has a Touch/iPhone because it was easy to use, had so many stations, and didn’t exploit the User. This release I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Sorry!
Brian,
we take privacy very serious and never tended to sell any data.
The next update will give you the ability to store the RadioDeck streams locally.
We just wanted to offer a better service for free, but people seem to not liking it.
The new interface is nothing different to Apples home screen.
So we don’t see anything that is new or difficult to navigate or to find.
New update will give you a shortcut from the widget you are currently in to the full screen player, so you don’t have to go back to the home screen to see what’s currently playing.
Hope people will see the advantages of the new navigation, instead of a limited tab-navigation where you just have 4-5 buttons and less view space on the window.
You’re even able to use it in landscape mode which would be almost impossible using the old interface.
NavigationBar + Prompt + Tab-Navigation in landscape would leave at least 1-2 station visible inside a directory. That’s why probably YouTube app is portrait mode only.
Hope you see the advantages of the new interface.
Hui… muss ja echt sagen das ist ein krasses ReDesign der App. Aber ich muss sagen, es läuft selbst unter dem iPhone 3G noch mit unglaublich guter Performance. Also nirgendwo irgendwelche Wartezeiten wenn ich auf irgendwas draufklicke. Super
Aber das neue Design ist wirklich etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, wenn man lange das alte gewohnt war. Fehlen jetzt halt nur noch die ganzen Funktionen die weggefallen sind:
- Automatisch Favoriten öffnen beim Start
- Automatisch letzten Stream starten
- Webinterface
Was aber auch ganz nett wäre: Wenn der eingebaute Browser Links zu Streams erkennt und entsprechend ein PopUp bringt ob man diesen Stream abspielen will oder zu den Favoriten hinzufügen will. Im Moment öffnet sich noch der Quicktime Player innerhalb vom Browser und spielt den Stream ab. Ist irgendwie etwas doof :/
Achja: Weil sich ja einige wohl beschwert haben, dass man sich einen RadioDeck Account einrichten muss:
Wie wäre es das ganze freiwillig sein zu lassen. Die Favoriten werden ja sowieso in der App gespeichert, nur dass dies jetzt ohne Account auf RadioDeck.com passiert und die Favoriten auch entsprechend nicht Online bei euch gespeichert werden. Dann können die Leute zwar nicht ihre Favoriten auf verschiedenen Geräten synchronisieren, aber ist ja nicht euer Problemen wenn die das nicht wollen.
Die anderen können ja weiterhin ihre Favoriten auf RadioDeck.com speichern, wenn sie wollen.
Spräche da was dagegen?
bifi,
wir haben es sogar unter iPod Touch 2nd Gen. getestet, ohne Performance-Problemen und werden deshalb auch bei diesem Design bleiben.
Die meisten sind einfach “überrascht” durch die enormen Veränderungen.
Wir können natürlich nicht alle Kunden anschreiben und sie um ihre Meinung fragen.
Die die uns öfters besuchen und die wochenalten Blog-Einträge gelesen haben, gaben positives Feedback. Waren entsprechend auch auf die Veränderungen vorbereitet.
Leider ist es so überall. Viele mögen nicht Veränderungen.
Diese Veränderungen geben uns aber mehr Möglichkeiten in Erweiterungen, weil wir nicht mehr am Platzmangel(Tabs/Windowgrösse) leiden.
Die fehlenden Features werden natürlich schnellstmöglich nachgereicht.
Auch die Möglichkeit die Streams von RadioDeck Lokal abspeichern zu können.
Ich hab ja auch nicht gesagt, dass ich es schlecht finde
Aber das Problem ist, das wohl ca. 90% der Nutzer nicht auf so eine gravierende Nutzung vorbereitet waren. Die wenigstens iPhone-Nutzer schauen auf die Webseiten der Entwickler. Sie sehen halt einfach nur irgendwann das Update im AppStore und tadaa, total neues Interface mit dem sie nicht gerechnet haben und lauter Features fehlen.
Das Problem hierbei liegt aber auch bei Apple, da die euch Entwicklern keine Möglichkeit geben alle User “vorzuwarnen”. Der AppStore nimmt einem Entwickler einfach den direkten Kontakt zu den Kunden.
Aber spätestens wenn die fehlenden Features wieder da sind, werden die meisten Leute sich wohl daran gewöhnen das RadioBox jetzt anders aussieht. Bis dahin gibt’s wohl erstmal einen ordentlichen Haufen negativer Bewertungen im AppStore.
Aber ich mag RadioBox jetzt auch noch
Danke bifi
Auch wenn die negativen Reviews uns gerade platt machen, geben wir nicht einfach so auf
This is a disaster!!|! I live in Switzerland in a wheelchair and Radio Box Version 1 was keeping me sane by allowing me to listen to Australian and South African radio stations in English. Now you update the program and the interface is terrible and I lose all my Australian stations. I sit here crying and I try to uninstall but old version is no longer available in Ap store. I feel like you took away an important part of my life.
If something is not broken dont fix it
Hi,
I’ve been looking forward to the iPad update for this great app. which gives me a slim DAB Radio with a great battery life unlike actual DAB radios. My previous favourites – basically the BBC Channels and a couple of others, imported flawlessly, however the stream info was missing and the station ident was the generic radio mast placeholder so I deleted them and redefined them from Radiodeck saving them as favourites. Of course this only saves them as online favourites so how can I get them saved on my device? I have to agree that a help option would be useful because can’t see the settings for wallpaper or any way to get those stations back into my stored favourites!
Still loving your app but would appreciate some help here.
Hello John,
we will add local favorites for RadioDeck stations with the next update.
Wallpapers are available for iPhone only, since there is a fullscreen player. No fullscreen player for iPad yet.
I’d always recommend using online favorites, since you can’t lose them, no matter what happens to your device.
It is reassuring to see that concerns over the update have not fallen on deaf ears.
I can see what you are saying arny about using a similar interface to the apple homescreen, however with only one option on the next area, it’s overly complex. I don’t see an issue with limited options in the previous version, you have made 3 different buttons for directories (4 including favourites) which all can sit under the same function like before (all easily reached on one tab).
i also agree that the iphone platform makes drastic changes harder to predict, where beta testers with users would probably have raised the issues before release.
My favourites also don’t work now as others have found.
The interface is the only issue for me. I rarely use anything but my favourites so I’d like the directories either grouped or off the main screen.
Ich reihe mich auch in die Reihe der Meckerer ein.
Ich habe in der alten Version bequem meine lokalen Favoriten aufgerufen und einfach nur Radio gehoert. Jetzt sind hierzu deutlich mehr Schritte als zuvor noetig. Die neuen Funktionen sind mir egal, das was ich nutzte ist schlechter geworden.
Ok, thank you Rob & Andreas,
we will try to shorten the ways between the Favorites and Player.
But the design will have to stay, sorry.
We can’t bring the old interface back.
Thanks
Thinking about it I don’t really miss wallpaper because to save battery I always turn the screen off once it’s playing and the online favourites are probably better – I had just got used to the old set up. Can’t understand the negative comments – it’s obviously people who don’t like change. The next big thing will be multitasking on the iPad, because playing in the background is where it’s at, but that is obviously down to Apple. Well done on the update – keep upnthe good work.
Hey um euch ein bisschen aufzumuntern gibt’s von mir auch ein paar lobende Worte! Im Gegensatz zu Version 1 hat das Programm einige spürbare Performance Verbesserungen und ist seit dem Update kein einziges mal mehr abgestürzt. Man merkt euer Engagement und eure Bemühungen die App besser zu machen. Es kann bei jedem mal was daneben gehen macht einfach weiter und macht meine lieblings Radio App noch besser
Hoffentlich gibt es wirklich bald wieder alle Stadions von radiobox bei radioseck, derzeit kann ich leider noch keine einzige meiner favouriten finden
Hi Arny, was mir heute morgen aufgefallen ist: wenn man RadioBox startet hat man zwar einen Play Button oben im Interface, allerdings ist dieser ohne Funktion, da kein aktueller Stream im Player gespeichert ist.
Das ist doof. Wäre cool wenn dann beim drücken vom Play Button der letzte Stream abgespielt wird der aktiv war bevor man den Player das letzte Mal am laufen hatte.
Verstehst du was ich meine?
Hallo, ich fände es viel intuitiver wenn man statt dem x rechts unten immer mit einem zurück Pfeil Links oben zurück geht bis man am “Radio Box homescreen” landet. Das wäre einheitlicher zu anderen Programmen. Lg
Arny, thanks for responding to my concerns on Friday.
Two requests:-
1. Rather than displaying three “random” radio stations at the top of the home screen, it would be good if I could select the stations that appear here.
2. When I select a radio stream could it display the progress of the buffering like the old version used to?
Do you know when the next release with local Favourites restored will be?
Brian, as soon as possible.
We’d need 1-2 weeks including Apple approvement, if Apple will take about 1 week.
For quick play (instead of station details) we need to extend the RadioDeck service API for that.
Hello, I was looking forward for this update but I was also disappointed. The biggest issue with me is the inability to create custom URL’s and name them on the favorites. This is because every time I try to create a favorite station and name it, the name gets erased the minute I turn the application off. Please, Please fix that bug on the next update! That is the biggest issue for me and all my friends!!!!
Thanks!
This only happens when the created station is played, then turning off the app, soooooo annoying
Also, the name of the you create is not displayed on the main interface. Sorry for rambling on but you spoiled us with the previous version
This new version wont play asx-files. It’s very sad.
Hans,
we’ve fixed this bug.
Coming with next update.
Aleksi, it plays asx files.
Please provide more info so we can check.
Great!! Thanks arnie, looking forward for the next update. Great support!!
Hey I am having problem everytime I open the app it closes down. I have 4.0 os and 2nd gen iPod touch. Jailbreaked and not jailed it does the same stuff. Closes down after main first headset scen. Help.
Hello Arny, what is the timeframe on the update?
Thx!
Good morning Arny, you have restored my faith in IRB
Just got the new version and lo-and-behold all my old favourite radio stations are now in place once again. And I get a progress indicator when a radio station loads. And I don’t get radio stations that I am not interested in appearing on the home screen when the App loads up.
Thank you.
Tanks Brian
Let’s hope other people will like it as well.
Arny, great improvement, this is now the best radio app available!!