click on the app (not the numbers) to navigate or here to start over or here for how to change many ooTunes Radio app settings.
What you see when you run ooTunes Radio.
- Tap here to see your stats (how many songs and hours have you listened?) or delete your history or favorites.
- Put in your ooTunes Media Server username and password to log in
- Turn Autologin on if you want ooTunes to remember your username and password next time you run it
- Login to an ooTunes Media Server
- If you just want to listen to radio streams, tap this. (No login/password required!)
- Get more info on ooTunes or access this tutorial here.
- The current version of ooTunes Radio.
Find a song or album you like and buy it now, (or later).
- Reload the price search page (show all prices found).
- Send a link to Twitter or email a link to the price search page.
- Navigate the store's website to find more information, or add it to your cart or wish list.
Search Several online stores for availability and prices on a given album or track.
- Send a link to twitter or email a link to the price search page.
- Tap to go to the store.
Pick who you want to email about what you're listening to
(or the list of prices for a given track or album).
- Pick a name and email address and Mail will open with an embedded link to the song, page or stream (NOTE: ooTunes will close).
Enter text to create a new custom tag to group your stations
(ie, sports, talk, rap, etc.)
Access the online FAQ with links to more info, right from the app (even while listening!).
Rate the track you're listening to (while logged into ooTunes Media Server), or email/tweet about it.
- Select the number of stars for rating the current track. The track rating is set within iTunes too (if you've enabled it in your account).
- Email a link to what you're listening. Will someone you know like this? Tell them!
- Tweet what you're listening to.
Tell us what you think or ask a question right from the app!
Pick a song from a playlist
- This is the title of the last picked playlist.
- Tap here to search within the playlist.
- Or listen to the playlist randomly.
Browse the internet while you listen. Want to google a band? Check your email? Chat? Check the weather? Here's the place!
- Tap when you're done (NOTE the current page will NOT be remembered when you return).
- Enter any page you want to go to.
- Tap the X to clear the history.
- The last 10 pages you've entered are saved here.
- Search google directly.
Do things while you listen!
- Check out the Frequently Asked Questions with links to more information.
- Send us your thoughts or questions or firstborn!
- If you're currently listening to an online station, you can check out their homepage.
Search for an artist or track with last.fm to hear it and related tracks.
Create a new Last.fm station.
- Tap here to search for and create a station from an artist or track.
What you see when you run ooTunes Radio.
- Tap here to see your stats (how many songs and hours have you listened?) or delete your history or favorites.
- Put in your ooTunes Media Server username and password to log in
- Turn Autologin on if you want ooTunes to remember your username and password next time you run it
- Login to an ooTunes Media Server
- If you just want to listen to radio streams, tap this. (No login/password required!)
- Get more info on ooTunes or access this tutorial here.
- The current version of ooTunes Radio.
Get the lyrics to the current or a recently played song.
(No more "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" moments :)
Set and Change ooTunes' Master Preferences
- Save your ooTunes username and password.
- Save your Twitter username and password (so you can tweet what you hear).
- Automatically log into your ooTunes Media Server when you run ooTunes.
- Resume playing what you were last listening to when you run the app and login.
- If you don't want to have to tap "Radio Only" to start listening to radio stations, set this to ON. (NOTE: this will override the autologin setting)
More ooTunes Settings
- Enter your default homepage for ooTunes' built in webbrowser.
- Turn to ON if you want to listen to higher bandwidth streams when you are connected to the cellular network. (NOTE: This may not work if your connection isn't good enough and it may run up your bill if your data plan is not unlimited)!
- Set this to ON if you don't want your iPhone or iPod Touch to lock the screen after a few minutes of inactivity. If the phone/ipod screen is locked, the network connection turns off after 30 minutes, so for longer playback turn this setting ON.
- Enter an extra password to scramble your ooTunes Media Server login (you will need to set the same secret in the ooTunes Server's preferences).
The list of playlists accessible through ooTunes Media Server. Pick one to browse or search within that playlist.
- Tap here to see your list of saved streams (favorites, recently played, most played and tagged as well as a list of all the streams).
- Now Playing is the currently queued list of tracks. This way you can see what will be playing next.
More playlists from your ooTunes Media Server.
- Tap here to go to the now playing screen or to skip or stop the currently playing track.
Even more playlists from your ooTunes Media Server.
- You can add folders to be scanned for songs and movies to listen or watch though ooTunes Media Server.
- These are your "smart" playlists from iTunes.
And finally, even MORE playlists.
- These are your regular iTunes playlists.
Now Playing Screen
- Tap this to go back to your list of playlists or stations.
- The station name, callsign, homepage and bitrate.
- Tap to go to the previous station or track.
- Tap to stop the current stream or track and return to the list of playlists.
- Tap to skip to the next track or station.
- Change the volume here.
- When available, the most recently known track to be played on the current station is shown here.
- Tap anywhere in here to hide the playback, volume and bottom controls.
- Tap this to listen in the background (either by browsing the web with the built-in browser or by opening the stream in the Safari browser for true background playback. NOTE: true background playback requires you to be connected to your ooTunes Media Server).
- Tap this heart to mark the station as a favorite, email it, tweet it, or tag it with a custom tag.
- Get help, send feedback or read the Frequently Asked Questions!
- Tap here to return to this stream.
- See what's recently played.
- Show the lyrics for a current or previous track.
- Find similar tracks to the one you're playing or to something you played recently.
- Tap here to search several online stores for a song or album. ooTunes currently searches Amazon, the iTunes Store, CD Universe, eMusic, Half.com and SecondSpin.com.
The list of stations you've added to your ooTunes Media Server
- The estimated bitrate for a given stream.
Find and play a recent track again.
- Search for a given track or album with SeeqPod (currently requires ooTunes Media Server).
- Search for and create a station of similar tracks with Last.fm (currently requires ooTunes Media Server)
- Search and watch music videos of the selected track.
- Tap to play the track again if it's available in your ooTunes Media Server.
Find and play a recent track in YouTube.
- Search and watch music videos of the selected track.
What have you been listening to?
- Clear all but the most recent playlist of recently played songs.
- Pick a recently played tracks to get it's lyrics, similar tracks, find prices or to hear it again.
- The name of the playlist or stream for the following tracks.
Resuming playback where you left off.
- By default, ooTunes tries to resume playing what you were last listening to when you start it up.
- If you don't want to resume what you were last listening to, Tap No before it disappears or turn off "Resume" in the master preferences.
Background playback
(do something else on your iPhone/iPod Touch while you listen)
- Tap Yes if you want to launch the currently playing stream or playlist in Safari, which you can then put in the background to check your mail or run ANY OTHER APP (even ooTunes again, if you want). NOTE: This feature requires ooTunes Media Server in order to convert the audio to something that Safari can play.
- A Poor (wo)man's "background mode". Browse the web in a built in web browser.
Where you can find all your favorites, recent most played or tagged streams.
- Tap here to search and listen to streams from the master list while logged into ooTunes Media Server.
- A list of all streams that you've marked as your favorites.
- A list of the most recent 40 stations you've listened to.
- A list of the most frequently played streams (probably your favorites, unless you're masochistic).
- Browse through the your custom tagged streams.
Search for stations by Location
(by country, city, state, zip or GPS).
- Enter a location here.
- Tap this to use your current location (GPS) or pick a recently searched location.
- Tap any station to play it immediately.
Search for Stations/Streams
- Name
- Location
- Genre
- Or for any text (name, genre, homepage, callsign, etc.)
Search within a playlist.
- Find by artist
- Find by Album
- Find by Genre
- Search all of those at the same time.
Find songs by name or artist using SeeqPod.
SeeqPod Search Integrated
- Tap to search SeeqPod by song or artist and create a new playlist.
Look for ooTunes within the iPhone/iPod Touch's Preferences App.
- Tap here to set and change some preferences for ooTunes Radio
A list of Tracks similar to the current or recent track.
- Tap to find it in the iTunes Store, SeeqPod or Last.fm (if you're logged into ooTunes Media Server)
Visit a station's homepage while you listen.
- The station's name.
The list of all streams available in "radio mode".
- Tap here to see your favorites, recents, most played or tagged streams.
- Tap here to search for a station by name, genre, location, etc.
- The estimated bitrate of the stream.
- Tap any stream to listen.
Find stations you've "tagged".
Find out more info on ooTunes (including this tutorial) news and updates, etc.
Watch YouTube videos of the tracks you've heard or search for something else to watch.
A listing of statistics of what you've heard or saved. You can delete cached artwork, clear favorites and recents, etc. here.
- Tap "Edit" (or swipe) to clear or reset the listed items
- Wow! I've listened to that many things?
- Wow! That's almost a year of my life!?
- The most recent playlist played.
- The list of streams you've marked as favorites.
- Total number of streams you've Tagged
- Total number of "recently played" streams
- A sorted list of most frequently played streams
- The item that was playing
- The entire stream database
Hidden controls to enjoy that fine fine art :)
- Tap anywhere on the art to show the controls again
More statistics, and controls to delete all the saved data and caches.
- This is the list of recently played tracks, stations and playlists
- This your "location history" or the recent locations around which you've searched for stations
- This is the Debug log which can be sent to the developer should you encounter a problem.
- This is the cache of all album artwork displayed for the tracks you've played.
- This allows you to clear all data and cached (except your "Total playing time" and "Total items played"
You'll be asked if you really want to clear things before they're gone.
First view in Radio Only mode.
- The stream database is loading at this point. This title will change when they're finished loading.
- While the database loads, you can still access the most recently played streams.
