Dear Fellow Rodinhooders,
Like everyone else I am a great fan of bollywood music. I love new songs as well as old songs. I spend around 3 hours daily traveling to work. During this time I keep listening to local FM stations. Frankly speaking, I got bored with all that repeated songs, there are no variety as such and same song plays on all other stations.
Then I tried few available online radio apps, but I was not happy with any of the apps because of following reasons:
1. No proper categorization: everyone has got their own taste when it comes to music. Some like new songs, some would prefer old songs, few would like ghazals, and someone like me would like listening to all time favorite Vividh Bharati 🙂
Almost all apps I downloaded threw all stations in one big list, it becomes very hard to know what genre generally station plays.
2. Dead stations: Many stations refused to load and will never play. At some point it gets frustrated and you start believing that app is totally useless.
3. No song info: There is no information about the song currently being played. So if you liked a song and want to get more information, you are out of luck. (Generally speaking, getting songs info depends on the stations. Some station makes this available and some don’t. Even if this info is available, most radio apps chose to ignore it).
4. Huge list of radio stations: while it is good to have so many stations but why one would be interested in stations playing songs in a language your are not interested now? It is very difficult to search for radio stations for your country or stations playing the genre that you are interested in.
5. Ad, ad & more ads: Switch stations: ad. Search station: ad, Listen to x minute: ad.
Well after endless search of a perfect radio app, I ended up coding the one myself 🙂
I can’t say it is perfect but I tried to straighten out the issues I found in other apps.
Friends, presenting yet another bollywood/hindi music streaming radio app:
Radioo Bollywoood FM
Available on Android (mobile & tablets) & Windows 10 (desktop, phone, tablet) platforms.
My expectations were very simple:
1. No ads: yes, this app will never have any ads. That’s a promise.
2. Only include stations which works: No dead stations, if found one, will be removed.
3. Focused: Include only those stations playing Bollywood songs (exceptions being All India Radio, included regional AIR stations Vividh Bharti, FM Rainbow etc)
4. Proper categorization: Taking care about your music taste. Like old songs, go to Sadabahar Gaane tab, enjoy ghazals, switch to ghazals tab etc.
5. Song information: Displays information about the song being played even if app is playing in the background (song info depends on the station, some may not have this info).
6. Keep the UI simple: No background image of actors/actresses, no colorful fonts, no useless alignment, no bullshit.
7. Keep permissions limited: will never add any feature which require any permission other than the Internet Access.
Requesting you to please check out the app from Play Store & Windows 10 Store (search Radioo Bollywood FM). Not compatible with Windows 8.1 so searching there wont return anything.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
App Twitter Handle: @radioobollywood
App Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/onlineradioo/
Thank you, Cheers !!!
Suhel
@theskhan