Listen to General Conference Archives right from the iPhone

Last weekend, I submitted an update to the ooTunes Radio iPhone app with a bunch of bug fixes and a really cool new feature.

Basically, the built-in webbrowser has a new button (a few actually) ... the "play" button. When you're on a webpage that has audio links (such as this: 179th Annual General Conference, April 2009 - English) pushing that button creates an on-the-fly playlist which lets you listened to whichever track you want (individual talks, in order, or full sessions, back to back). You can also bookmark both the page, or the individual tracks for later listening. Also, all the former archives should work just as well as this last april's conference (and the other languages too :) The advantage of this over the podcasts is I don't think you can get the previous stuff with a podcast, and you can do this pretty much on the fly, without having to sync, or download all the "episodes". Though it's also certainly not perfect yet... next update will hopefully have the ability to skip around inside the file, and bookmark timepoints within the files. (It's not super easy when you're streaming to do so though).

Again, this isn't a LDS conference only feature, but works with any site with audio links :) You can use it with many podcasts, many radio stations' pages (if they aren't already in my list of almost 7000 iPhone compatible streams). It also works with audio from Archive.org (such as over 50,000 live concerts from Live Music Archive).

Hope those of you who bought the app for listening to General Conference Live (or those who got a free code from me) enjoy this update! I hope it's released in the next week or so :)

Let me know as always if you have any problems or suggestions!
Thanks,
Steve

How to hear LDS general conference live on your iPhone or iPod Touch

In church today, I realized that this year (next week!), I'll be able to listen to LDS General Conference in my yard, or car, or just about anywhere using my own iPhone app, ooTunes Radio! I thought, "hey there are probably lots of others who would like that too!", hence this blog. Since my app costs $4 (and does a lot more ... see Live Radio on iPhone and iPod Touch) but since I don't want to profiteer from General Conference, the first 40 people who leave a comment below telling who you look forward to hearing from most and why you'll want to listen to the 179th Annual General Conference April 4-5 2009 from your iPhone or iPod touch, will get a free "promotion code" that gives you the app for free. Unfortunately, Apple only gives me a set number of these codes (50 to be exact), they expire within 4 weeks (don't ask if you don't have an iPhone or iPod touch or don't plan to use it!) and they ONLY work for those with a US iTunes account (sorry! I know over half of the members are excluded by that alone!)

Also, you'll have to provide me with an email address somehow for me to be able to give the code to you, so the easiest way is for you to send me a message here. with a link to your comment or your name/blogger id and email so I know how to send it to you!

If the demand is overwhelming, I may try to give the app away for a short time for everyone else, but the problem with that is a) I lose my ranking in the for-sale apps and b) I have potentially a lot more customers to support with no payment for that.

But we'll see, maybe only 40 people care and the app is only $4.

Also, I should note that there is at least one app for free that can do the same thing, called FStream so if you don't get a free one from me, you can still listen for free with that!

Thanks and tell your friends!

Steve

P.S. If I didn't think of this so late, I would have created a free version that just does general conference! Maybe in October :)