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Online radio costs any idea?

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  • 02-08-2011 1:53pm
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    IrishHomer
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    Hi,

    Apologies but I'm new to android phones just purchased my 1st one ever.

    I have downloaded the free online radio app tuninradio asmi have always love usingnitmaround the house with iPad and the iPod touch via home wifi.

    My phone is a Vodafone prepay which is supposed to have free internet monthly allowance.

    If I were to go around places using the phones internet to use the online radio would I eat up data and blow a small fortune on phone credit? :confused:

    Any advice greatly appreciated asni said iam new to mobile phones with online capabilities.


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    Zagato
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    Yes will probably use a fair bit of data. What is your data allowance? Is it per day or per month?

    If it is per month, then you get download a data monitoring app, and see how much it uses when listening for a fixed period of time.


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    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    I think it is worked out something like this:

    Assuming a 64kbps stream (note: some stations are 32, others are 128 - you need to check):

    64/8 = 8kb/sec = 480kb/min = 28800 kb/hour = approx. 28Mb per hour

    If you have a 500Mb per month data allowance, that will give you approx. 17 hours per month. Don't forget other apps will eat into your data allowance so this figure is very rough.


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