topic Re: Digital radio app in Android

Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:34:27 GMT

Hi, I want to listen to a digital radio app whilst at work but need to know how much of my data usage it will take. Is there a way that I can find out?

I tried live chat but it wasn't very helpful

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:40:50 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the Community.

There are a wide range of radio apps available on Google play or Apple IStore depending on your handset.

From my experience when using the gsm network they are as data heavy as tv streaming using between 2.5 and 3mb per minute.

If you have access to wifi when you listen to your favorite radio stations this is recommended to avoid using up all of your data allowance.

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:42:04 GMT

To give you some comparison, Sky Go (tv) users between 2 and 3 mb pet minute and BT Sport uses between 3 and 5 mb per minute so as you will see, radio is fairly data intensive.

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:44:01 GMT

Hi piperdog. Thank you for the welcome and for the response. I have a Galaxy G5 and there is one particular station I want to listen to, however your answer is what I expected to hear and I'm sad 😞 I will have to buy myself a little digital radio to listen to instead

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:48:02 GMT

Do you have access to wifi where you want to listen to your favourite station?

Remember if you have BT Broadband at home you can access over 5 million free wifi hot spots across the UK.

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:58:54 GMT

No, unfortunately there's no wifi where I work, I dont have BT Broadband either

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:01:19 GMT

Then you either need more data so if you base on 3mb per minute that will tell you how much data you need or to save your £ you might want to get a little portable digital radio as you rightly suggested.

Re: Digital radio app

MI5 — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:05:16 GMT

Hi, I use Tunein Radio and it depends on the bit rate of the radio station. Many stations offer a number of streams at different bit rates. In the Tunein 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.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tunein.player&hl=en

Re: Digital radio app

MI5 — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:07:32 GMT

To give you an idea of usage if a station is a common 192K bit rate then that is 90MB per hour.

Re: Digital radio app

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:51:21 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!

I hope you found the advice helpful. What did you finally decide to do?