I’ve been tearing my hair out for a couple of weeks trying to find the best way to stream internet radio to my iPod Touch. Every single free internet radio app, and many of the paid ones, say much the same thing, “Over 5,000 radio stations”. Of course, what they don’t say is most of them are at worst useless, and at best, irrelevant. Try getting BBC Radio Four, or RTE One, and you’re in for a world of pointless searching and timewasting.

All of them are searchable by music genre, but very few by location, so if you want to find out the news in your area, forget it. But no problem finding 218 different death metal channels. Great.

But then I came across WunderRadio from Weather Underground, and finally, my search is over. The first thing it does is politely ask if you mind it finding out where you are, and then it gives you a bunch of local stations to peruse. All the usual internet stations are available too, but the reliability of the streams seems great. It’s €4.99, which I guess isn’t cheap, but it’s cheaper than a DAB radio, which is what I was going to buy to extend my radio palette.

If you want internet radio on your iPhone, especially in Ireland, buy this. Just be careful with that 1 gig download limit on your O2 account!

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