SomaFM App for iPhone and iPod Touch
A free update is available now that fixes compatibility issues with iPhone 3.0. (The bug was some channels were not being displayed in the listings, while others were listed twice.
Our new iPhone App is here!
You can view all our channels by genre, popularity (based on current
number of listeners), or limited to just your favorites; See the title and artist of the currently playing song, as well as the last 10 songs played just like on our website. You can also bookmark favorite songs for purchase on iTunes later (and we get a commission on those sales).
If you're on 3G or WiFi, we give you access to our high quality 128k streams, higher quality than many of the other "big" internet radio services out there. Of course you can also switch to low bandwidth version if you're on a slower network.
Not only can you use it when you're mobile; but it's great when used at home with an iPod touch hooked to your stereo.
In case you have any problems with our iPhone app, visit our iPhone player support area for more information or to submit a question or suggestion.
Free Webapp for iPhone and iPod Touch
SomaFM streams in Safari, on iPhones and the iPod Touch. When you go to somafm.com on your iPhone, you get an iPhone-specific site with links to quickly and easily select streams for EDGE (32-56k) or WiFi (128k) streams. EDGE streams should work from just about anywhere, while WiFi streams only work within the range of a WiFi hotspot.
While the free iPhone Webapp is missing some of the nicer features of the App Store player, it does have one important feature: you can check email and run other apps while it's playing. You can do anything except make a call or use Safari when you're playing SomaFM from the webapp.
SomaFM on other Mobile Devices
We are working hard to bring you SomaFM on as many different mobile devices as possible. Here's the latest on what phones we know works with SomaFM:
SomaFM on Blackberry
We have rolled out limited Blackberry support right now that provides access to our 3GPP streams. We've tested on Blackberry 8330 Pearl; other 83xx series with the latest firmware should work. Blackberry Storm (model 9530) also works, and supports our aacPlus streams which sound great at mobile-friendly bitrates. However, the 8800, 8100 and older 8200 series Blackberry phones do not have a built in media player that supports streaming. The BlackBerry 8220 "Pearl Flip" works great though.
If you have a 8300 series phone, go to http://somafm.com in the default Blackberry web browser, and you'll get a special page with our channel stream links on them. If you use another browser, you can try this link: http://somafm.com/soma.xhtml as we're not auto-detecting all Blackberry browsers properly yet.
Palm Pre
Our free web-based app has been ported from the iPhone to the Palm Pre. Just go to SomaFM.com on your Palm Pre and stream all our channels.
Android Phones
We do not have a dedicated SomaFM app at this time. In the mean time, StreamFurious in the Android Marketplace supports SomaFM streams.
aacPlus-compatible SomaFM player
Tuner2 offers an iPhone Stream Player with aacPlus support that sounds great at low bit rates; including our 40kb streams for Groove Salad, Space Station, Indie Pop Rocks and others. Many people can't tell the difference between a 40kb aacPlus stream and our 128k streams. So if you're not ona 3G phone or listening on WiFi, this app is a great solution.
WindowsMobile and PocketPC devices
Our 32k Windows Media streams work on most WindowsMobile devices. Just go to SomaFM.com and we'll detect your phone and show you links to all our channels.
The Resco radio player now supports aacPlus streams on your Pocket PC device. Full support of Bluetooth head-sets as well.
Palm Devices
For Palm-based smartphones, the under $30 Kinoma player will play our streams. Kinoma also has a version for Windows Mobile, and our aacPlus streams sound better than our 32kb WMA streams. (So while you can use the built-in player to receive our WMA streams, for best quality you'll want the Kinoma player.) Treo users can use Pocket Tunes to listen to our MP3 streams.
Nokia Series 60 Phones
There is a free, open source Internet Radio player for the Nokia 60 series, including the Nokia 3250, E60, E61, E70, N71, N73, N80, N91, N92, N93 as well as Nokia N70, N72, N90, 6630, 6680, 6681, 6682 phones. Once you have the application installed, you can add all the SomaFM stations to the player by opening this playlist: http://somafm.com/all.pls (open that link in the Nokia player).
SomaFM on other Mobile Devices
If your have a streaming-capable phone that's not listed above, we also have automatic mini-sites for most other cell phones, including Sony, Nokia N series, Samsung, Sanyo and some Motorola phones; as well as most phones running Windows Mobile.
The best quality mobile streams use aacPlus, and that's supported on phones such as the Samsung MM A800, A900, A920, A940; LG Fusic; and Sanyo MM 9000.
There are other phones that will work with our stream, however do not fully support aacPlus and won't sound as good. Most Sony Ericsson phones fall into this category.
Still not working?
Is your streaming-capable phone not working with our site? We are hoping to support it soon. (Some phones, notably those from Verizon, block third-party broadcasters like SomaFM from their networks; and there isn't anything we can do about that.)
