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StreamS? HiFi Radio Brings Broadcast Quality Audio to Apple iPhone/iPod touch/iPad Devices

Diamond Bar, CA (PRWEB) December 2, 2010

Modulation Index, LLC, Los Angeles, CA USA announced StreamS HiFi Radio, a new Internet Radio App for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad hardware. Via the StreamS Directory, StreamS supports and lists thousands of high high quality AAC and HE-AAC streams which includes AM/FM stations and NET streams.

With out getting to register on a web site, users can add their own streams inside the StreamS App, which is only needed if these streams are not currently listed in the StreamS Directory. Plan providers can also request a listing in the StreamS directory. Despite the fact that the directory is AAC/HE-AAC only, manual entry permits AAC/HE-AAC and MP3 streams to be entered and saved as Favorites.

Users can search, save streams and stations as Favorites, view Recents, Save Titles, and obtain on iTunes. StreamS supports social networking ? users can Publish Current Title to Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. It even offers a world StreamMap? showing what other users are listening to. StreamS optimizes the user encounter by displaying album art and artist title information in a fast, effortless to use, mobile-oriented interface.

Since the StreamS App decodes HE-AAC and AAC appropriately, listeners will hear these streams in full fidelity the way their creators intended. Many of the dedicated single-station and other player Apps decode HE-AAC incorrectly or do not help AAC/HE-AAC at all. Apple?s Steve Jobs recently decided that a lot of single-station players have no place in the Apple iTunes App Store because of their restricted functionality and cut-and-paste similarity to other players from the identical developers. Furthermore, a lot of of these Apps sound bad, the most typical and egregious issue becoming frequency response that extends to much less than 15 kHz even when a stream itself contains all of the data required to obtain 15 kHz bandwidth, which is the minimal audio bandwidth required for high fidelity. These troubles prevent the Apple hardware from offering a high-high quality user experience.

With its potential to play thousands of standards-conforming streams, StreamS HiFi is the kind of App Apple prefers. Of course, Apple hardware enables users to run several other Apps as well, such as web, e-mail, and contacts, so portable multipurpose devices become excellent-quality Net radios too.

To allow users to exploit their Apple hardware?s entertainment potential totally, StreamS supports external audio connections, Bluetooth Audio and Apple AirPlay to AirPort Express and Apple Tv. This makes it possible for high quality audio to be streamed to just about any device, anyplace there is an Net connection. Some of the supported hardware devices do not call for a wireless contract. If they use a Wi-Fi connection, any carrier can be used.

In 2002, back when HE-AAC was still known as aacPlus, Orban introduced the 1st Net HE-AAC streaming encoder application. Because then HE-AAC became an MPEG common, joining AAC. HE-AAC has been included in all mobile multimedia devices and is supported by Adobe Flash, Microsoft, and now Apple. It is now more well-known than MP3 and WMA in streaming applications since it is much more effective and sounds greater at a offered bitrate. Meanwhile, AAC powers the planet?s biggest music download shop, Apple iTunes, due to the fact MPEG?s rigorous double-blind listening tests showed that AAC offers the best audio top quality at bitrates of 128 kbps and above in stereo. (Above about 512 kbps, lossless coding is feasible and is totally transparent to the source, but the required bitrate is uneconomical for streaming.)

HE-AAC is now in version 2, which enhanced efficiency additional by adding parametric stereo encoding. StreamS HiFi Radio supports AAC/HE-AACv2 streams in all well-known transports, which includes ICY/SHOUTcast, ICY/Icecast2, RTSP/RTP, and Adobe Flash RTMP and HTTP/FLV, permitting StreamS to play all AAC/HE-AACv2 streams identified on the World wide web these days.

?As the developers of Orban Opticodec-Pc HE-AAC encoders, we thoroughly realize the technology and get the HE-AAC decoding proper,? stated Greg Ogonowski, President of Modulation Index and Vice President for New Product Development at Orban. ?This gives listeners the finest fidelity possible and supplies capabilities that are more than competitive to satellite and HD Radio, regardless of whether heard on earbuds, auto sound systems, or house stereos. Deployed mobile devices greatly outnumber other digital radios. Furthermore, we have located that as opposed to cellular voice channels, the high-speed data-grade mobile channels employed by this service are generally cost-free from dropouts, noise bursts, and unexpected disconnections. Thirty years serving the professional broadcast industry has taught us that radio networks are fanatical about the quality of their signal. By employing a expert grade decoder, we are in a position to meet these high expectations.?

"For years, our audience has been begging us to locate a way to make Boomer Radio readily available outside of the workplace,? stated Ron Rubin, founder of Boomer Radio. ?With Adobe Flash streaming on the iPhone employing StreamS, listeners can now take pleasure in our programming anyplace they go with the greatest sounding audio obtainable nowadays. And broadcasters who adopt this remedy will be afforded new opportunities to monetize their content material."

"Our clients have been seeking for a path to profitably serve their listeners on the iPhone with out losing manage of their business," stated Jonathan Speaker, chief operating officer for StreamGuys. "StreamS HiFi Radio and the Modulation Index custom radio apps now make that path clear."

Detailed info can be located right here:http://www.indexcom.com/iphone

Customers interested in StreamS HiFi Radio can discover it for sale via the Apple iTunes App Store right here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streams-hifi-radio/id381467884?mt=8

Custom versions of StreamS are readily available.

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